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Most rural areas don't have public water mains, and therefore houses draw from private wells for drinking water. Every house I've lived in has had a private well, in NW CT and Western MA. When you buy a house you get the water tested to make sure it meets EPA standards for drinking water. I've lived in houses that had more than the recommended amount of iron, sodium, etc.
Currently living near a golf course now and the water is more acidic than other well water I've had. Currently testing at a neutral 7.0 which is good but our initial well test had it at 6.5 which is not. I assumed it was related to the golf course and farmland.