New Yorkers may notice subtle difference in taste and aroma of tap water during Aqueduct repair project [Video]

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — For years, New York City has won praise for the quality and taste of our water.

It comes from reservoirs in Croton, Catskill, and Delaware.

But now, repairs to the system that brings that water into our homes and businesses may require some of it to come from another source.

That means not only our water may taste different, but the work may impact the taste of our world-famous pizza and bagels as well.

Both of them credit our water for making them delicious.

Beginning next month, the Department of Environmental Protection will alter New York City’s water source to rely more on the Croton Watershed and less on the reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains to make much-needed repairs to a leak in the longest tunnel in the world.

The 85-mile-long Delaware Aqueduct delivers about 600 million gallons of water daily using only gravity, from four Catskill Mountain region reservoirs.

“We’ve engaged in a 20-year-long effort to build a …