My DH is a what I call the "Water Guru". He will have colorless, odorless, and tasteless water at any expense. We have well water and live outside of the city limits but could choose to tap in since the city/municipality ran a main past the front of our house several years ago for a small factory a couple of miles down the road.

We have always had a water softener system since we moved in back in the early 80's and had installed a Culligan softner along with a RO (reverse osmosis) for a special tap at the kitchen sink and to feed the ice maker. Earlier this year the Culligan unit went on the fritz and we replaced it with a Kinetico softening system (very pricey) and was still able to keep our same Culligan RO for the drinking water. We do not drink the softened water only water from the RO tap. It is delicious and if it ever goes out we will be getting another one right away.

After all, perfect water is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. The RO system needs the filter changed once a year at about $25 a pop.