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If you want to avoid the cost and trash of bottled water, try keeping a pitcher of water(or reusable water bottles filled from the tap) in your fridge. The chlo
by goda90 6y ago
If you want to avoid the cost and trash of bottled water, try keeping a pitcher of water(or reusable water bottles filled from the tap) in your fridge. The chlorine is pretty volatile, and will evaporate off within a day(assuming the pitcher isn't air tight). Just have some rotating stock so you can always have water ready to drink or make ice cubes. Of course you could also go the filtration route, but that adds the upfront cost of the system, and continuous cost of filters and wasted water.
- snovv_crash 6y agoIt depends on the treatment method your city uses. Chlorine gas will evaporate out, but chloramine won't, and will also react with a lot of things downstream to make nasty tasting organics, for example if you use the water in brewing.
- ecpottinger 6y agoThat is why I have a rain fresh filter. Needs no power to run either. http://rainfresh.ca/product/steel-gravity-water-filter/ http://rainfresh.ca/product/steel-gravity-water-filter/
- quickthrower2 6y agoLooks good for prepping as it takes stream water too.
- Scoundreller 6y agoAnd can depend on where in a city you are. And sometimes the different treatment systems are still mained to eachother so shifting demand and supply can change which water you’re drinking from. Toronto has chlorine plants and ozone plants.
- ajuc 6y agoThis is common knowledge among people growing potted plants to use tap water that stood for a few days in open container.
- msrenee 6y agoFish keepers too. However it's not recommended in areas that use chloramines in addition to chlorine, as those are less volatile.
- kqr 6y agoHuh, I always heard this as "a few hours" and assumed it was about getting the right temperature. (And from my darkroom days, I'm fairly good at nailing 20 °C with my fingers, so I just waited for the tap to give me the right temperature and then poured it straight into the pots.)