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thefridayfive and I wanted to participate. Why not start a monologue?
1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?
Filtered! Bottled only when I'm out and ran out of filtered in a reusable bottle.
2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?
According to the water company, yes. But it's not, really. At the source, water may be drinkable, but on its way to just about anywhere, there are burst pipes, filthy water tanks - to put it simply, even if it was clean to begin with, contamination is VERY common when the material used is low quality and old. We had an outbreak of diarrhea and gastroenteritis a few months ago - but hey, the water company said it has nothing to do with the tap water, yet somehow people who drink (properly) filtered water got a pass.
3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?
I'm really not the best person to talk about taste/smell after COVID :p
4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?
I live in a tiny apartment - but like other people I know who can collect it, I'd use it for cleaning.
5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?
Again, technically no! But in reality, yes. They apply restrictions to us whenever suits them - most recently, as a political play, to say the water company is doing a poor job and get the people on the side of privatizing it. But usually, whenever there's a more tourist-y season (carnaval, mainly), water is rationed. We never know when we're going to run out (two days without getting water sent to our building usually does it), but it's always a problem. We buy mineral water by the gallon when this happens, and use it for washing dishes, brushing teeth, drinking; personal hygiene is trickier - the building's manager hires a water tanker to refill the water tank, but it takes them a while to get here and while their water is dirty as hell, it's good enough for flushing the toilet and showering.
thefridayfive and I wanted to participate. Why not start a monologue?1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?
Filtered! Bottled only when I'm out and ran out of filtered in a reusable bottle.
2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?
According to the water company, yes. But it's not, really. At the source, water may be drinkable, but on its way to just about anywhere, there are burst pipes, filthy water tanks - to put it simply, even if it was clean to begin with, contamination is VERY common when the material used is low quality and old. We had an outbreak of diarrhea and gastroenteritis a few months ago - but hey, the water company said it has nothing to do with the tap water, yet somehow people who drink (properly) filtered water got a pass.
3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?
I'm really not the best person to talk about taste/smell after COVID :p
4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?
I live in a tiny apartment - but like other people I know who can collect it, I'd use it for cleaning.
5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?
Again, technically no! But in reality, yes. They apply restrictions to us whenever suits them - most recently, as a political play, to say the water company is doing a poor job and get the people on the side of privatizing it. But usually, whenever there's a more tourist-y season (carnaval, mainly), water is rationed. We never know when we're going to run out (two days without getting water sent to our building usually does it), but it's always a problem. We buy mineral water by the gallon when this happens, and use it for washing dishes, brushing teeth, drinking; personal hygiene is trickier - the building's manager hires a water tanker to refill the water tank, but it takes them a while to get here and while their water is dirty as hell, it's good enough for flushing the toilet and showering.
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