What is your primary source of drinking water?

What is your primary source of drinking water?

  • Tap - straight, no filter

    Votes: 79 40.7%

  • Filtered/boiled tap water

    Votes: 32 16.5%

  • Reverse Osmosis - from a provider

    Votes: 37 19.1%

  • Reverse Osmosis - at home

    Votes: 9 4.6%

  • Spring water (self collected)

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Bottled water

    Votes: 17 8.8%

  • Borehole water

    Votes: 8 4.1%

  • Rainwater

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 3.6%
  • Total voters
    194
Normal Tap water, water is decent where I stay.
 
HermeticAnarchist said:
We have lime in our borehole water. Just have to soak things like shower head and kettle element in vinegar for a while from time to time and then you're good to go.
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I thought hard water is also bad for the pipes? .. I had to install a softener for my borehole water
 
marhsava said:
I thought hard water is also bad for the pipes? .. I had to install a softener for my borehole water
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It does build up in pipes, but quite slowly. It's a lot worse for things like your geyser element, kettle and other appliances that heat water.
 
EmmanuelGoldstein said:
Aquazania
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Same. My family had a dispenser and we were collecting Oasis water bottles, but then heard that Aquazania does deliveries and switched to them ... nicer dispenser, better tasting water, and home delivery for the same monthly price. Talk about a no-brainer.
 
Pick n Pay has a system where you bring your own 5L bottles and fill them up from a large tanker of the same water you get in bottled water. Much cheaper than buying bottled water. Then I also buy fizzy water which I drink a lot.
 
I live in Durbanville and hit the H2O straight from the faucet. But I grew up in JHB and remember drinking straight from the hosepipe, on those warm days you let the first bit of water through to cool the pipe, then you gooi. I swear that was the most refreshing water ever.
 
Jhb water been steadily getting worse. You can still drink from the tap but once you pass it through a filter you realize how kuk it was. I use a tabletop filter
 
Sinbad said:
It does build up in pipes, but quite slowly. It's a lot worse for things like your geyser element, kettle and other appliances that heat water.
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So if I don't add salt in my softener for 2 months then my pipes would be fine?
 
marhsava said:
So if I don't add salt in my softener for 2 months then my pipes would be fine?
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Yeah. I've had hard water (>270 mg/l of CaCO3) since the house was built 5 years ago and not run into any pipe problems yet Lots of scaling of showerheads, taps, shower screens etc but it takes many years for the pipes to get blocked. Also, once you start running soft water again it slowly starts dissolving the scale.
 
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