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afunaAhhh so household water filters are finally cheap enough that we've decided to try installing one at home (it's still 15,000 pesos, the hell!). The guy who installed it showed me how it works. At one point, he turns on the purified water faucet, and lets it run, says that this is the drinkable water, I nod my head dutifully... and hide my intense cringe reaction over wasting the purified water.
This is sort of ridiculous because, while drinking water has often been inconvenient here, I've never had to worry about it being scarce.
When I was a kid, we used to fill these huge stock pots with water from the faucet, boil them to kill any bacteria, then keep them to the side for several hours to let any sediment settle before we could use them for drinking. This could be inconvenient and meant that we didn't take drinking water for granted, but it was never a matter of scarcity or worry. We had several of these huge pots, so in practice we just always made sure that we boiled a new batch of water when we were down to one or two. There was a bit of waste because you didn't want to drink the water at the bottom of the pot, and you had to be very careful when getting water near the bottom because you wouldn't want to stir up the sediment, but you know, it worked!
After that, and for a long time, we bought water in five-gallon containers, delivered weekly. Now that is very convenient, but the cost adds up, and you still have to keep track of when the water supply is running low and order new ones and wait for the new delivery....
And now it's coming out of the faucet. Granted, it's not the main faucet but drinking water. From the tap. ASDFHHH. I'm a bit weirded out by just how strong my reaction is. But ASDFGGFHFHHFHFHF.
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Date: 2013-04-30 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 05:05 pm (UTC)*nod nods* I always check because I'm used to checking. It used to weird me out when I'd see, e.g., hotels with signs saying "not potable" because why would you need to be warned about that? (Ah the young, so easily bewildered) *g*
Anyway, so yeah. That is a pretty cool perspective to come from.