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Usually in most cases of a boil water order the risk is minimal. The water is just not considered potable and as such you wouldn't want to do the drinking or the wound disinfecting.
Watering your garden is fine. Big questionmark for me about the hand-washing.
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When we get a boil order here (we have old water lines in the area and whenever there's a break, they automatically issue a boil order until it's fixed), we are told that showering is okay but to avoid it if you have any open sores or wounds anywhere.
We keep baby wipes and alcohol hand washes for boil-order days, as well as several gallons of bottled water for drinking, cooking, dish washing and brushing teeth.
Most of the time it's easier to spend extra time with my parents, who live a couple towns away. They grumble, but I know it's more to make a fuss than it is a true hardship for them, because they love spending time with my kids no matter the reason. The worst part when we do this is coordinating baths and showers for 6 people again.
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First put the water in the pot; put the pot on the stove; then turn on the stove. Any other order is likely to lead to unpleasant consequences.
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Hey. They said boil water. They didn't say anything about a stinking pot. Now my electric stove is covered in an inch of water and when I turn it up to start it boiling, all I get is a shock.
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You can also fill the pot, turn on the stove, and then put the pot on the stove with no problems.
And you really can turn on the stove before filling the pot and putting it on the stove, but we could discuss the ramifications in the Green Energy News thread.
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You could put the pot on the stove, turn on the stove, then bring water over to fill the pot. But if the pot is Teflon all your birds will die. I'm just sayin'.
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Or you could turn on the Electric coil stove while you fill a pot with water, and by the time you put the water on, it's nice and hot.
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I never drink tap water without boiling it first. I guess I know too much about the business of municipal water treatment here in the U.S. to do that. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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I always drink tap water without boiling it first. I guess I'm willing to take the (incredibly small risk in the name of saving the time and energy required to boil a lot of water.
Actually, the things I'm most worried about in water can't be removed by boiling, so why bother?
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Tstorm, how do you know the risk is incredibly small? Have you ever had a bout of uncomfortable ailments of the digestive system? Are you certain it didn't come from drinking tap water?
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Yes, and reasonably sure it was food-related, not water-related. If it were water-related, I'd expect it to happen more often, because I drink a lot of water.
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Ah, but that's not how it works. The little bugs in the water treatment plant are usually kept well in check but from time to time get an eentsy bit out of hand. Susceptibility varies, as well as immunity to some local varieties.
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Yes, I understand what you're saying and I agree with you. However, there's no way to prove that any individual case came from one source or another (food or water), is there?
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I've been drinking tap water for over 30 years, and never had a tap-water related digestive issue. I'd say that's a pretty good up side record.
How many people in American get digestive bugs from the tap water, compared to how many people drink tap water. At a guess, I'd say it's substantially lower than .001% chance of any given drink of tap water causing you a problem.
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Interesting that you have something to back that claim up with. I'm sticking with the claim that Taco Bell caused my last set of issues.
So, on a separate but related note, have you ever thought about installing a reverse-osmosis machine? I'm thinking that might save you quite a bit of effort, compared to boiling pots of water every day.
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Well, I live in Washington now. (I was Dan_raven from St. Clair before moving and an embarrassing password issue had me using my alt all the time).
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Oh, I gotcha. Didn't know you'd gone through a name change, my man. I'm going to school over in your neck of the woods come August.
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