So the city I live in had a water treatment facility failure. For most of Saturday, we had no water service. So not knowing how long the system would be down, I went to get water for toilets, drinking, dishes, sink baths, etc. I got up late and and found out the water had been out for about 12 hrs. Figuring the grocery stores, Sams, and Walmart would be sold out, I headed to Lowe’s. For drinking water you say? I say yes. I bought 30 gallons in six 5 gallon bottles, the kind you pick up and put on the dispensers. $85 down, but I had enough to last us the weekend. The city issued a boil water mandate. Later that evening the service came back on. And yeah the water was supposed to be discolored and smell of sulfur. We have a whole house filter and water softener system. I bypassed it and ran the spigot closest to the intake from the city for about 30 minutes. That got rid of all the debris in the line. Then I turned the water to the house back on. Come to find out that the filter I use is rated for crytosporidium. Soooooo. I have about 25 gallons of bottled water, and a filter system doing exactly what I bought it for. And on top of that, a reverse osmosis system for cooking. Water, water everywhere and all of it to drink… but I’m not thirsty.
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