simonhill wrote: ↑10 Feb 2024, 1:41am
My first question would be - what is wrong with your tap water?
In this day & age, in broken Bwitain? Who knows - but it certainly seems a possibility that water quality from various taps has degraded over the past decade, along with everything else to do with the privatised criminals supposedly managing water supplies.
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When we moved house we were very lucky, I feel, to have a private water supply arrangement included in the new house. It comes from a deep underground river via bore hole and pump, with several filters along with an intense UV light taking out the various minerals, salts and any underground river bugs. Despite this quite intense filtration, it does leave enough minerals in the water so that it tastes very nice indeed.
This arrangement isn't as cheap as mains tap water would be, as the system is serviced once a year to replace the more complex filtration elements, along with our own monthly change of the main sediment filter. In addition, we have a full analysis done every couple of years to make sure that nothing untoward is escaping the filtration.
But I can foresee a time when such an arrangement will become necessary for everyone, at various scales, if drinking water is to remain safe for most. It's become increasingly obvious that not only are water companies degrading to the point that they're producing dangers as bad as killing whole rivers and making beaches unsafe to swim at but that the world in general is polluting water with all sorts of evil chemicals and microplastics.
I suppose a time will soon come when such mass pollution will overwhelm even the sort of water filtration system that we currently have. Forever chemicals and who knows what other micro-stuff can be extremely pervasive as well as extremely toxic.
But perhaps we'll all die of Putin or Gulf Stream failure before then.