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Hamilton Tap Water
Just wondering what hamilton tap water is like? I'm not overly picky and I don't want to buy a brita to fill up a nalgene bottle.
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Just wondering what hamilton tap water is like? I'm not overly picky and I don't want to buy a brita to fill up a nalgene bottle.
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I think it's fine. If you are living off campus, you should test the water for lead though. Just in case the plumbing wasn't changed.
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Since when do we have to worry about potable water? Lol. o_O (Minus like the, 2 incidents  )
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Since when do we have to worry about potable water? Lol. o_O (Minus like the, 2 incidents ) |
Well, we only have to worry about lead since the pipping may not have been changed. The houses here are really old.
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I would say it really depends on the house and when the plumbing was replaced. I got a brita jug for home but I haven't had any weird tastes from my house or university water straight from the tap. Then again, you never know what I could be ingesting...
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I really try to avoid drinking water from the tap. A Brita filter that you have in the fridge, or one that you attach to the pipe itself is a pretty good investment.
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I really try to avoid drinking water from the tap. A Brita filter that you have in the fridge, or one that you attach to the pipe itself is a pretty good investment.
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I also use a Brita filter and put it in my fridge. I get colder filtered water that way ^-^. It's in my mini-fridge and I put my mini-fridge really cold
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K, my roomate had a brita thing... it was literally just a jug.
How the hell does that filter water? o_O
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K, my roomate had a brita thing... it was literally just a jug.
How the hell does that filter water? o_O
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The jug has a place for a filter. It's a carbon based filter.
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The jug has a place for a filter. It's a carbon based filter.
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Explain.
And how much do these things cost.
How long from when you fill it up to when you can drink it?
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I don't know about price, but I know it starts filtering right away so in like a couple minutes you have the jug filled with filtered water.
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Explain.
And how much do these things cost.
How long from when you fill it up to when you can drink it?
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There is a jug with a filter holder. You have to soak the filter first and then do two filtrations because the water may contain carbon dust in the first filtration.
It filters pretty fast, maybe 1 minute?
http://www.brita.ca/
The cost for a jug is about 25$ for the cheapest one. Filters are 8$ for 1, but you can buy as much at 6 for 33$.
Just browse the website.
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I think it's fine. If you are living off campus, you should test the water for lead though. Just in case the plumbing wasn't changed.
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And depending on how often you're actully filtering water, you change the filter less often. (Their estimates on changing it every 2 months is based on a family of 4 using it...)
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How do we check for lead?
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There are kits for it: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/leadinwater
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