Is this so far out of line to have water you can drink from the tap? Are there much in the way of graft in bottled water that prevents this?
andy a said:in the DR that even nobrainers like potable water and getting rid of stray dogs (in a recent thread), from which everybody would benefit and to which nobody would seemingly object, still are not feasible.
Concerning bottled water, even if the cost is no object, integrity is. Although I use it just in case, I suspect that it comes right out of the tap, or worse. Even one poor Dominican I know spends precious money on cooking gas to boil the bottled water before letting his family drink it.
Remember where you're at.
This is as silly a response as I could possibly imagine. Eh?lhtown said:We would be happy just to get real wet water through those tubes. Let's work on getting water before we try cleaning it up, eh?
Well I have never experienced the problems of NO water. I always have water such as it is. Any water is treatable and I wondered why it hadn't been done. Even if they do this in just parts of the country like they did in Mexico.Originally posted by lhtown Sorry if I my post was a bit silly. My point is very real though. In many parts of the country the water only runs a few days a week. I appreciate the need to treat the water (our water sometimes smells like sewer water and has a brackish color), but first things first.
How about working on just getting water first and fixing the pipes and infrastructure? After we are successful in that, the rest will be much easier. It seems to me also that the sporadic outages, dirty, leaky pipes, as well as the cisterns and roof tanks would make any water that was otherwise drinkable quite nasty.
I must admit though, that I do appreciate it when they actually do put chlorine in the water. It has been a number of months since I have noticed it here.
Robert said:[I do not know of anyone getting sick fron drinking bottles water here. Do you? [/B]