by My answers to today’s questions at thefridayfive@DW
1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?
Only tap water.
2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?
It’s safe. The quality of tap water here in such that it’s a given – nobody born here even thinks about it.
3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?
Nothing, IMO.
4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?
Nope.
5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?
The only times tap water isn’t safe to drink is when there is a temporary, local problem with some local plumbing/water supply/water treatment plant. These happen occasionally but I’ve never had it happen to me in my 51 years.
People still have summer cottages that are old and basic enough that they don’t get municipal running water, or the running water comes from their own well in which case bottled water is needed for drinking. My Mom and her SO had a place like that for a couple of years, spent only summers there and had to haul in water for the stays. They had their own well and running water, but it could not be used for drinking or cooking, just for showering and gardening and such.
The only thing was that when I visited that Mom’s and SO’s summer place, I had to remember never to drink water from any faucet. And while showering, not letting water in my mouth.
Hyvää uutta vuotta!
I just returned from Poland, where I was visiting my family during Christmas time. Funny thing that this post is about water, and when I read it, there was a water shortage at my parents’ home. It started on the New Year evening and continued until yesterday, when I was leaving. Hopefully it has been fixed by now. It was quite unexpected, in Finland I water shortages also happen from time to time but they are always announced. That one in Poland was due to some failure.