Drinking Water Cost Comparison

[mr bill]

-the purpose of this post is two-fold:
1: to highlight the lunacy of how we receive our drinking water and to solicit ideas on how better serve the Mexican population this vital fluid.
2: to highlight the message power of this forum -its not just limited to text.

[laconstance]

I didn't know that all three companies bought Leon city water, and trucked the purified water to Guanajuato. What a waste! I decided last fall that I no longer wanted to buy bottled water and WOULDN'T buy from CocaCola or Pepsi. My regular independent water guy was dependable, but the water often tasted musty. So, time for a change. I decided to filter my own. After doing a fair amount of research, I bought a 3-Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount PUR filter #FM-9400B for my kitchen faucet. The technical info says that it filters solids (your basic mud), chlorination byproducts and industrial chemicals, heavy metals (we are in a heavily mineralized mining area), agricultural chemicals and pesticides (some reservoirs are in these areas), and microbial cysts including giardia. Here's the result:

Living alone, I used one 5-gal bottle in about 7 days, at a cost of 22 pesos, or about $14.40 U.S. for a two-month period. I used one filter in two months, at a cost of $8.66. You earn back the cost of the filter device itself in about 8 months, after which you'd save about $2.87 per month, hardly worth mentioning. BUT, the filtered water tastes great! And, I don't have those big jugs to wrestle, nor am I supporting "big cola" with my water purchase!

I know that some norteamericanos install whole-house filtering systems, but to me that sounds like overkill. And just one more thing to maintain and worry about. I'm very happy with my little one-faucet system. I bought mine, along with six extra filters, from Amazon.com, and brought it to Mexico in my luggage.

[GTOROCKS RACING TEAM]

Those 3-Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount PUR filters work pretty good.

9-10 years and GTO STATE is going to have a HUGE WATER AQUIFER WATER PROBLEM! :-/

[mr bill]

Opened a year and a half ago but I just discovered it today EVYFILL in Col. las Teresas on the Libre GTO-Silao
- Note this is Col. las Teresas not the Puelbo Sta. Teresa further down the road.

Just after the 1st tope in las Teresas take a right up to the glorieta and then all the way around to the shops on the left.

There is also a 24 hour self service refill machine available

[raquelita]

How does the taste compare with other bottled water?

[mr bill]

Buy 5 Pay for 4 on Saturdays