> I suspect I'm not the only one who decided that plastic byproducts (and the occasional injury from shuffling around 2.5gals) seemed safer than drinking out of

> I suspect I'm not the only one who decided that plastic byproducts (and the occasional injury from shuffling around 2.5gals) seemed safer than drinking out of some of these old building pipes. We decided on an RO (Reverse Osmosis) system along with a filteration system. Based on what we spend annually maintaining the system, sometimes I wonder if we would not be better off just going bottled water (bulk, from Costco) with less of an overhead, and it is a close call ... although I do not know what it will cost to buy water in bulk, and I guess I still may need a filteration system for bathing.