I wound up buying a huge 10L jug of water today since I’m still not at the point of believing that spending hundreds of dollars in a water filter can be justified. It’s just that the water here is really, really, really, bad. I’ve never encountered tap water this chlorinated before. All I can figure is that the current floods have something to do with it; that perhaps they’re overtreating the water to ensure potability. The result is incredibly caustic. I made a pan of pasta two days ago, cooking the pasta with water from the tap. I didn’t taste the pasta before adding sauce and cheese, which is a shame because I had to throw the whole thing out! Despite the strong tomato sauce and stinky cheese, all you could taste was chlorine! After washing my hands, all I can smell is chlorine. After dinner tonight, I could still smell chlorine on the dishes after washing and drying them. Dinner was lemon-garlic prawns and lemongrass halibut, which should have stunk up the RV, but could I smell fish in here after? Nope, all I could smell was, yup, chlorine!<\/p>\n
I’ll use the water from the jug for cooking, teeth brushing, and drinking (kitties drink what mom drinks) this week and see how quickly I go through it, and also keep tabs on the smell of the water. It hasn’t always been this bad; I used to be able to brush my teeth with it at least!<\/p>\n
I’ve been showering at the pool complex and haven’t noticed if the water smells bad there. It’s a pool complex. It’s supposed<\/em> to smell like chlorine! So, it’s kind of hard to judge. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wound up buying a huge 10L jug of water today since I’m still not at the point of believing that spending hundreds of dollars in a water filter can be justified. It’s just that the water here is really, really, really, bad. I’ve never encountered tap water this chlorinated before. All I can figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,6,635,5,1375,3],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-21452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}