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Originally Posted by NorCalAthlete
Now THERE'S a first world problem. Still buying bottled water when you live in a country with perfectly good tap water, Brita filters / pitchers, etc (unless you're in Michigan).
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The small city where I work currently has both their primary and backup reservoirs offline due to PFOS contamination, and are in the process of building a filtration plant to remove it. I pay for the Brita filter on the office break room sink faucet out of my own pocket.
Our home well water is absolutely non-potable even after multi-stage treatment, and actually eats through copper pipes. (I have a plumber booked to replace every pipe in our house with PEX, because I have had enough of 3:00 AM basement flood alarms from burst pipes.)
We have weekly deliveries of water cooler bottles to our house, and typically go through 25+ gallons of spring water per week for two people in our water cooler. Several of our neighbors also have weekly deliveries of 4-5 five gallon water cooler bottles.
The break-even point between bottled water deliveries and drilling a deeper well into the next vein is over 28 years before the well would be cheaper than the bottled water, with no guarantee *that* water will be any better than what we have.
Ironically, there are charities working to provide clean drinking water to third-world countries.....