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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•8 months agoWell, you can get water out of your tap, so there’s an easy alternative. Use a filter if your tap water is iffy.
minus-squareJustinlinkfedilink2•8 months ago25l water tanks with tap water and/or forklift water tanks.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•8 months agoIf your tap doesn’t work, large refillable bottles. In the US, there are services that deliver them and some grocery stores offer it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•8 months agoThey are, strangely, more expensive than large multipacks of water bottles. Even with bottle return discounts.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoThat’s the part people like to forget. The cost
minus-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink5•8 months agoNot everyone has reliably safe tap water. Remember Flint?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoThe article says that cancer causing chemicals were found in bottled water in the Bay Area, not tap water.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoArticle said the bottled water was tap water. And the tap water in the Bay Area had cancer causing chemicals.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•8 months agoA lot of people can’t get safe drinking water out of their tap. A lot of people, just in the US. That’s a lot of ongoing costs for filters. Where there’s municipal water, that water should already be safe to drink.
Well, you can get water out of your tap, so there’s an easy alternative. Use a filter if your tap water is iffy.
what is a water storage alternative?
25l water tanks with tap water and/or forklift water tanks.
If your tap doesn’t work, large refillable bottles. In the US, there are services that deliver them and some grocery stores offer it.
They are, strangely, more expensive than large multipacks of water bottles. Even with bottle return discounts.
That’s the part people like to forget. The cost
Not everyone has reliably safe tap water. Remember Flint?
And the Bay Area as the article warns about.
The article says that cancer causing chemicals were found in bottled water in the Bay Area, not tap water.
Article said the bottled water was tap water. And the tap water in the Bay Area had cancer causing chemicals.
A lot of people can’t get safe drinking water out of their tap. A lot of people, just in the US. That’s a lot of ongoing costs for filters. Where there’s municipal water, that water should already be safe to drink.