"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Hank Rogers wrote:
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>> cshenk wrote:
>> > Julie Bove wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> >>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> > > ...
>> > > > On 10/28/2020 6:27 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > > > > On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 2:02:47 AM UTC-4,
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > I do drink tap water. No clue what Municipal water is. Our
>> > > > > > water comes from Spada Lake. Not in Bothell.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> >
> https://lynnwoodtoday.com/ask-the-en...ter-come-from/
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Really? At your age you have no idea what "municipal water"
>> > > > > is?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > It's water the does not come from one's own private well.
>> > > > > It's provided by your municipality. It flows from the tap
>> > > > > and you receive a bill for it at regular intervals.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Cindy Hamilton
>> > > > >
>> > > > I have no idea how she got to be 61 years old and remain so
>> > > > completely clueless. We know she's not hauling buckets of
>> > > > water from Spada Lake to her house.
>> > >
>> > > I don't know municipality is either and I can't be bothered to use
>> > > the dictionary. I could however get free spring water near Martha
>> > > Lake though. I would have to bang my own containers.
>> >
>> > Julie, 'Municipal water' is another name for Tap water. That
>> > terminology may not be used for it where you are in common language
>> > so was not immediately recognized. If I used the term 'municiple
>> > water' to most of my friends, they'd look at me like I'd grown a
>> > 3rd eyeball.
>> >
>> > Carol
>> >
>>
>> Country folks just call it "city water", even if it's a county
>> utility.
>
> Yup. My water bill doesn't use that term on it either. I don't have
> an issue with someone not knowing the term as I've not lived anyplace
> personally where it was called that commonly or on a water bill.
>
> The silly things people did up here to argue about!
> Carol

I did ask around. Nobody I know knew what that term meant.