LANSING, MI -- Walk into the right area of the Capitol or Romney building and you might find jugs of water. They belong to the governor.

Monday he started a 30-day experience of drinking the water Flint residents drink every day.

"I started yesterday. I went to a home and they were wonderful, they allowed me to fill up a bunch of jugs off the filter in their kitchen," Snyder said Tuesday.

Flint residents are currently drinking filtered or bottled water. The city switched water sources in 2014, and more corrosive water leached lead into the water supply. An unknown number of children were exposed to the toxin.

On Monday, Snyder announced he'd be drinking filtered water from Flint at home and at work for 30 days.

"A lot of this was in response to people were concerned. I mean the message came out, the scientists reinforced the fact that the filtered water is safe to drink and people were still skeptical. And I tried to reinforce that and so they sort of said 'well why don't you do it' so I said, 'I will,'" Snyder said.

Mayor Weaver said she was not impressed by the governor's 30-day promised, and challenged him to move to the city for 30 days to see what it's like.

"Lucky for him, that he can drink filtered water, because we've been dealing with this for two years, and we were drinking it when it wasn't filtered," Weaver said at a press conference Tuesday.

"If the governor really wanted to know what it's like to deal with the situation we're in...he needs to come and stay here for 30 days and live with us and see what it's like to have to use bottled or filtered water when you want to cook and when you want to drink and when you want to brush your teeth."

Snyder said that was her perspective, but he had been asked to do this by many.

"I was asked to do this by a lot of residents, by the press, so I'm just following through on what I was asked to do," Snyder said.

So how does it taste?

"It's fine, it's filtered water, it's good water," Snyder said.

In response to a series of questions about how people could know he was really drinking the water, Snyder said he thought a video blog would be boring but his staff could vouch for him.

"You can ask the people that work for me, they made my tea this morning with it in both the Capitol and the Romney building. We've got the jugs sitting right there," Snyder said.

Michigan's first lady Sue Snyder is also drinking the filtered Flint water, and Snyder has plans to replenish his supply soon.

Emily Lawler is a Capitol reporter on MLive's statewide Impact Team. You can reach her at elawler@mlive.com, subscribe to her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter: @emilyjanelawler.