Source of drinking water
By nicanorr
@nicanorr (1789)
Philippines
December 18, 2011 10:53pm CST
Do you drink water? Where do you get your drinking water? Are you sure it is safe? If you doubt your drinking water is not potable, what will you do to make it safe? Do you know that drinking unsafe and contaminated water kills more than war does? Imagine the hordes of diseases seen only through the microscope that will attack your body because of dirty and polluted water you've drank.
9 responses
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
21 Dec 11
Luckily my friend, we weren't affected by Sendong. Though, there are intermittent rains.
We have our own deepwell, in our front yard powered by a water pump. The water system comes from there. Every time we get water from the faucet, the water tank operates.
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@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
22 Dec 11
Hi nicanorr,
We order gallons of water for water stations outside. I cannot say that it is really clean but I guess many people actually buy water now. We don't want to take risk of drinking water from the faucet. As we know that there are sometimes the water supply is not clean especially every time pipe maintenance were being conducted.
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@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
Hi, enelym001,
Do majority of people drink and use water for various purposes from the public water system in your place? How many water station sells the commodity in your place? Have you ever paid a visit to them to see how they operate- especially on the sanitary and cleanliness aspect?
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
My mom knows the person who owns the water station. And I do hope they have a good maintenance. WE use the faucet water for most of the things but just not drinking it.
@GemmaR (8517)
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4 Feb 12
I will never drink water unless it has been cleaned and filtered. I like in the UK, and we have been told that all water that comes through our taps is safe to drink. However, I don't always drink it if we are on holiday because you just never know whether it's going to be safe to drink or not. I will usually buy bottled water when I am going to places that I haven't tasted the water from before, because then I can be absolutely certain that the water I am drinking is going to be safe and isn't going to have anything in it that could harm me.
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@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
22 Dec 11
I drink water from either tap or we buy gallons of water from a water station nearby. Our tap water is safe since it goes through a sifter or a device which urifies it. And the water station is pretty safe too sinc we have been buing there for decades and nothing bad happened.
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@tresni2305 (46)
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29 Dec 11
I drink both tap and bottled water and the way I see it is that the water is cleaned before coming through the taps and the bottled water is obviously fresh and clean so I know its safe, If I didn't think it was safe then I would not drink it and stick to something else like Pepsi :)
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@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
tresni2305, your response sounds good.
You drink both water from bottles and faucet and you believe them to be clean and safe. Am I right? But how far have you gone to see it for yourself at the source how the commodities are prepared? Have you? If not, then what is your basis for saying your water is safe for all purposes?
@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
Good morning, aerous:
There's a philosophy which runs like this: No matter what one does to keep his drinking water safe, he still believes the water he drinks is unsafe.
Your thinking may favor the above philosophy, but I would like to bring home the point that whatever measures we do to make our drinking water safe and potable, like boiling it, etc., let's continue the habit.
Prevention counts more than cure.
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
19 Dec 11
WE have good potable water where I live. But since the last earthquake, I have found that the water has too much tar so I bought a filter to purify it a little more. I use purified water for everything I eat or drink now.
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@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
21 Dec 11
I was truly delighted to read your response. I am inclined to say that your household members are doing the same like you, drinking purified potable water. Am I correct? Just asking, when do you remember your community experiencing water-borne diseases due to unsanitary and contaminated water.
@nonersays (3335)
• United States
19 Dec 11
I drink filtered tap water. I dont think it is any less clean than the bottled waters that people spend tons of money on.
Plus, even if my tap water isn't compltely safe, there are tons of people drinking water much more polluted than anything I've ever put in my body, so I guess I'm the lucky one.
