07-28-2007, 03:27 AM
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How do you know if the water you're putting in the bottle is safe or that your portable water filter (if you have one) is appropriate for the particles that need filtering?
The tap water in my Kansas City suburb is quite good. The filter on my tap makes it better. In the Dominican my hosts have a large 5-gallon water cooler and I regularly refill my bottle from that. In Canada I use a water filter to pump water from the Boundary Waters lakes (although the water there is so clean the water filter is just a precaution). I also use a hiking filter in the mountains.
In many other cities I usually just fill it from the tap. I do, however, travel to Phoenix many times a year and their water is heavily chlorinated. In that situation I'll buy a gallon jug of purified water from the grocery or gas station and use that for a day or two.
I do remember, however, that no matter how bad the water is in many of our city's taps, it is much, much worse in 90% of the world. I visit the Dominican every year and I'm appalled at how good we have it here in the US.
How do you know if the water you're putting in the bottle is safe or that your portable water filter (if you have one) is appropriate for the particles that need filtering?
The tap water in my Kansas City suburb is quite good. The filter on my tap makes it better. In the Dominican my hosts have a large 5-gallon water cooler and I regularly refill my bottle from that. In Canada I use a water filter to pump water from the Boundary Waters lakes (although the water there is so clean the water filter is just a precaution). I also use a hiking filter in the mountains.
In many other cities I usually just fill it from the tap. I do, however, travel to Phoenix many times a year and their water is heavily chlorinated. In that situation I'll buy a gallon jug of purified water from the grocery or gas station and use that for a day or two.
I do remember, however, that no matter how bad the water is in many of our city's taps, it is much, much worse in 90% of the world. I visit the Dominican every year and I'm appalled at how good we have it here in the US.