Same. This did bite me in the ass the year I worked as an English tutor in France and just drank from the tap though. Oh sure, the water was safe to drink, but in my area it was so full of minerals that it made the sides of my mouth crack and bleed. Didn't get better until I started buying bottled water like all the other people I knew in that area. I thought they were being silly and bougie, but it turns out they knew exactly what they were doing. It suuuuucked hauling water back to my place from the store though. Even with the bus, it was quite a ways to walk with that much weight.
The town I live in has very mineral-y water, to such a degree that the municipality set up a kiosk where you can get filtered water for practically nothing as long as you bring the container, and you can get it still or sparkling.
I developed some mild tendinitis on my forearms from hauling all that sparkling goodness last summer.
It's really cool that your town offered that! I'm sorry it ended up causing an injury. I can certainly relate. I ended up switching to bringing a backpack just for the water, and using a grocery bag for everything else. Aside from backpacking trips, I've never thought more about rationing how much water I was drinking.
Same. This did bite me in the ass the year I worked as an English tutor in France and just drank from the tap though. Oh sure, the water was safe to drink, but in my area it was so full of minerals that it made the sides of my mouth crack and bleed. Didn't get better until I started buying bottled water like all the other people I knew in that area. I thought they were being silly and bougie, but it turns out they knew exactly what they were doing. It suuuuucked hauling water back to my place from the store though. Even with the bus, it was quite a ways to walk with that much weight.
The town I live in has very mineral-y water, to such a degree that the municipality set up a kiosk where you can get filtered water for practically nothing as long as you bring the container, and you can get it still or sparkling.
I developed some mild tendinitis on my forearms from hauling all that sparkling goodness last summer.
It's really cool that your town offered that! I'm sorry it ended up causing an injury. I can certainly relate. I ended up switching to bringing a backpack just for the water, and using a grocery bag for everything else. Aside from backpacking trips, I've never thought more about rationing how much water I was drinking.