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minus-squareLeeny@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days 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-squaredesktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agowhat is a water storage alternative?
minus-squareusrtrv@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days 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-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoThey are, strangely, more expensive than large multipacks of water bottles. Even with bottle return discounts.
minus-squareandrewta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoThat’s the part people like to forget. The cost
minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days ago25l water tanks with tap water and/or forklift water tanks.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoNot everyone has reliably safe tap water. Remember Flint?
minus-squareSmoogs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoAnd the Bay Area as the article warns about.
minus-squareSolemn@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoThe article says that cancer causing chemicals were found in bottled water in the Bay Area, not tap water.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days 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?
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
25l water tanks with tap water and/or forklift water tanks.
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.
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.