What is the water smell in Orlando???

[SeeDisney]

We just returned from our two week vacation to WDW.


Just like four years ago there's a peculiar smell in the water for bathing....at all the different hotels in WDW.

Why is that?

 

[bradk]

i really can't say i've noticed it at WDW, but staying offsite, there's a definite sulfur smell.

 

[vicki_c]

I agree, I've never noticed it at WDW, but sulphur everywhere else. When I lived there, I hated smelling that - everywhere for irrigation and also in my yard when our sprinklers went off. The sprinklers were run from well water vs. city water, which is great because it's free but it stinks!

We now fondly refer to it as the "Florida stinky water" smell!

 

[dancin Disney style]

All the tap water in FL has that smell/taste.

I wonder if FL locals think other peoples water stinks?

 

[WthrLdy]

I'm in Florida, and our water doesn't smell, have a colour to it, or an odd taste.

Now the well water for the irrigation system does. BUT the treated water for the household is just.....water.

 

[vicki_c]

I'm in Florida, and our water doesn't smell, have a colour to it, or an odd taste.

Now the well water for the irrigation system does. BUT the treated water for the household is just.....water.

I would have to agree - I moved to Florida from the NE and didn't notice anything odd about the water in my house or anywhere else, just the irrigation water.

 

[dancin Disney style]

I'm in Florida, and our water doesn't smell, have a colour to it, or an odd taste.

Now the well water for the irrigation system does. BUT the treated water for the household is just.....water.

So it must just be us 'out-of-towners'. It wouldn't surprise me if you came to my city and thought the water tasted funny.

 

[cdrn1]

I live in the midwest. Everything stinks here: water, hog farms, industry (AE Staley, for those of you who know what that is..) .
I got no problem with Florida water; I hope to drink in it daily in the not-too-distant future!

 

[CLR4321]

I had heard there was a sulfur smell to the tap water at WDW, so I bought bottled water. We stayed at POR, and the tap water actually turned out being fine, tasted like average tap water to drink.
I suppose it depends on what you are used to drinking at home.

 

[WthrLdy]

So it must just be us 'out-of-towners'. It wouldn't surprise me if you came to my city and thought the water tasted funny.

We're military. I've lived 6 different places in 15 years. No where I've been has water been "off". Different, certainly. Especially places that get their treated city water from a iron rich well.

I've had all kinds of water. I don't care for limestone aquafer water, it tastes too sweet for me.

I don't like untreated well water at ALL. It usually has too much iron and sulfur in it for my taste buds.

 

[jaleaton]

I live in the midwest. Everything stinks here: water, hog farms, industry (AE Staley, for those of you who know what that is..) .
I got no problem with Florida water; I hope to drink in it daily in the not-too-distant future!

Oh, Staley's is the worst. I live in the heart of Lafayette, IN, where there are two factories. I've never actually noticed a water smell in Florida, but I guess I'm immune to gross smells too.

 

[SoupNQuackers]

Has anyone noticed that the water in MK tastes absolutely awful? I found it was bad to the point that even the slush drinks tasted like it.

Everywhere else was fine but MK (espescially the unrefrigerated stuff) seems really off.

Is it just me?

 

[Berlioz70]

I'm from the midwest (within a mile of a plant) and still can't stand FL water. Once I moved here I bought TWO Brita filters... I have to refill one everyday!!!

 

[Kaler131]

When my teenage daughter was little she used to say the water at the drinking fountains at Magic Kingdom tasted like "firecrackers"! LOL Must be that sulfur taste....

 

[disneybridetobe]

I've never noticed it. I remember while I was preparing for last year's trip that everyone said the water was horrible. We got there and it was better than the water at home! Our water here is so overly chlorinated that tap water tastes like it came from a swimming pool. Seriously-- you come out of the bath/shower dry as heck and smelling like you just went swimming.

Now tap water from the Jersey Shore... ohhh I love it. I don't know what it is about it, I just love the taste. Yes, I'm weird. lol.

 

[touy_story_man]

i think the water in MK and EPCOT taste different because the pipes are older

 

[bradk]

well again, from my perspective, i've never had an issue with quality of water on site. not at the resorts, not the water fountains. individual fountains have had problems yes, i've encountered warm water or fountains just not working very well, but usually fountains are in pairs (one adult height, one child height) and if one is bad, the other is usually good.

but i have stayed at a vacation home off site and the smell was actually very overwhelming when turning on the faucets.

 

[greengeen]

It's not FLORIDA water. It's the Orlando municipal water supply. Florida is a big state and the water quality varies from city to city and county to county all across the state, just like in every other state! Orlando happens to have a lot of sulfur in the water, hence the "smell".

 

[seadd67]

The water I like,In the resort the park all good but the smell you notice frist thing you step out of the Airport,I guess Its the sulpher? but now I love that smell Its flordia .Really I do not care,Ive smelt worse,but where eczactly Is the sulpher(and I know Its in the ground),typ of plants, weather and Is It through the whole state?

 

[chartle]

Funny thing about this is I heard an NPR news story about how Florida is in the top 5 of states that produce bottled water and that the state is going to put a 6 cents a gallon tax on all water shipped out of the state.

I heard this and I'm like huh you couldn't pay me to drink this water.

For the PP's that say the water is fine you must not have a good sense of smell and are in a very very very small minority because its a sulphur chlorine smell and If I drank it untreated I would get ill.