How cold is tap water?

Answer 1

Cirric is right, but I'll add this:

You know how the water gets a little colder after it runs for a minute? That's because the first water that came out had been warmed to the temp of the inside of the house. After a minute, you get water that had come from underground beneath your house and out to the street, whatever. The temperature underground varies, but is almost always cooler than the inside of the house/apartment building.

The water inside the pipes will warm or cool to whatever the ambient temperature around the pipes is. Just like food put inside the refrigerator will become the temp of the rest of the inside of the refrigerator, and food put in the oven will become the temp inside the oven. (After it has released all its water...but that's the answer to a question that wasn't asked...)

Your toilets even cause you to use heat when they are flushed in the winter, because that cold water that enters the toilet absorbs the warm air in the house, and releases cool air in the process, as equilibrium occurs.

Answer 2

In New York state the groundwater temperature (and therefore tap water temperature) is a relatively constant 52 F. The groundwater temperature results from the average temperature of all the water that drains into the ground during a typical yearly cycle. Of course water freezes at 32 F and makes ice which can not drain into the ground. Therefore the temperature depends on rain falling on hot or cold ground plus melt water in the spring rather than the average air temperature that can remain well below zero for extended periods of time. It also follows that groundwater temperature will depend on the weather cycle in any particular area of the country. Hope that helps a little.

Answer 3

Hi. Tap water is as cold as the ground through which the pipe passes. In Florida the ground is warm so the tap water is warn. Here in New England the ground is much cooler so the water is cooler. (I prefer cold water for drinking!) Hope this makes sense.

Answer 4

for some reason im thinking around 54 degrees... i have no idea why.. but i think ive heard sometime long ago

i really have no idea though

but cant tap water change temp. when u change the nozzle from cold to hot or something?

Answer 5

About 62 degrees

Answer 6

In the Midwest right now at the faucet I'm getting 35 degrees Fahrenheit I hope the ground doesn't get any colder

Answer 7

It all depends on the ambient temperature of the air above the reservoir. In winter it's colder than in the summer.

Answer 8

Room temperature.

Answer 9

I don't know.

How cold is it?

(shouldn't this be in the joke section)?? ;)

Answer 10

cool