Our water has never tasted good and we've tried the water pitcher things without any sucess (still tasted nasty) and still had some floaties in it.

A couple years ago they changed where they get the source of our water from and things went from bad to worse if you can believe that. Now the water smells so strongly of bleach you'd think you were drinking clorox straight from the bottle, it had more foaties in it, and now leaves a reddish ring around anything it touches for a length of time (toilet, cat water bowl etc).

We decided that if it looked and smelled like that it couldn't possibly be fit to drink so we started boiling it. For filtering we cut down the top of a cone shaped coffee filter to fit a funnel and pour the water over into jugs we keep in the fridge.

No more nasty taste, no more red rings, no more bleach smell. The coffee filters are cheap and a good tea kettle isn't very expensive and has more than paid for itself. Now I find myself drinking water far more than I ever had in my whole life (which still isn't nearly enough though).