Ames Ranked #1 in Another College Town Ranking
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For all those thinking about leaving Iowa... just take this into consideration. You lose access to clean tasting water in the south... especially Texas. If that is important to you (which I didn't realize how important it is to me before moving) make sure to ask for $2000 a year extra on your salary negotiations and say you need it to import water from Iowa.
Can confirm this. I miss Iowa water. Around here they make it palatable by using tap water to brew tea and dumping sugar in it until your teeth chatter.
Can also confirm this. In some places in Texas, you can chew the tapwater...
If the tap water in texas is from the Ogallala aquifer, it took a long time to get there from the Sand Hills of Nebraska.
I used to get crap about bringing back a gallon or two of Ames water whenever I left Lincoln to visit the future Mrs. Velo in Ames. I didn't care because the Ames water tasted, well, like water and the stuff that came out of the tap in Lincoln tasted like crap. I also appreciated the water in Ames when I first moved there for college. The town I graduated high school in had to put so much chlorine in the water that your bathroom would smell like an indoor pool after you took a shower.
Yeah, it is a stupid thing to put in the promo video, but Ames does have some pretty good water. We all take it for granted until we have crap to drink instead.
Yeah, it is a stupid thing to put in the promo video, but Ames does have some pretty good water. We all take it for granted until we have crap to drink instead.
Looks like the Ogallala peters out before it gets that far south. I'm remembering the well water on the ranch...cloudy, smelled vaguely of sulfur; if you let it sit, particulate matter would form a sediment on the bottom. If it was really hot out, and you drank it ice cold and very fast, you could choke it down. However, like someone else said...making coffee & sweet tea with it was the only way to make it mildly palatable.
From your mouth to God's ears. The DFW water tasted like drinking dirty water from a canteen.
Lincoln has a wellfield in the Platte River. Ames uses an aquifer. Waterloo use to have an artesian aquifer for their water. It was very good.
