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RE: Our First Wake-Up In Our New Home!
What will you do with the camper now? Is the rent affordable? When you say you've technically broken the rules at the shelter, does that mean you haven't fully moved out yet? Is the tap water potable?
The camper is being recycled. We officially have everything out of the shelter as of this afternoon. The water is potable, but I won't drink it. It tastes awful.
Too much chlorine then I suppose.
We've been living a bit in St.Petersburg, the water from the tap should in theory be potable, but nobody in their right mind drinks it anyway without boiling it first. Still, on my first visits there it was pretty rare to buy drinking water in the shops. The Russians were drinking tea, beer, juice, champagne or vodka, but rarely water - and eventually they would boil water and cool it down for the rare occasion that anyone would desire to drink water. Things have changed quite much during the last two decades.
We installed a water filter and a separate tap for drinking water, I think we probably saved the installation cost in me not buying drinking water from the shop anymore. There was of course other aspects as well, as always having drinking water available, the health-benefit of drinking less beer and more water, not having to drag the water from the shop, etc.
Often simple coal filtering will do to kill bad taste from the water, this can be done very cheaply.
Yes! @abigscheit mentioned a filter as well, a great idea and saves on plastic as well!
I use Pur filters, and noticed the last time I went to buy refills that they have a new model that removes lead (the old models do not). Of course they are more expensive. But I also noted that something the old model says it removes was not on the new model list (I don't remember what now). Maybe check online for a water report for your county so you can choose the best filter?