I live near a huge highway construction project, and about once a month they break the water main, meaning we get a boil water notice for ~48h.
I have a Culligan water filter that runs to a spout on my sink, and one that’s on our ice maker, but we use the level 1 canisters to remove the taste from the water. These canisters are good for about 6 months of regular use (ice maker is about a year).
During the boil water notice, the level 1 filters aren’t sufficient to filter out bacteria and such, so I’d need a level 3 filter for that. But, those are expensive and only good for about 2 months, so I don’t want to exclusively use them.
I’d like to have one in storage that I can throw on when we have a main break, but I’m not sure the best way to store it. It’s not super easy to drain the water out of the canisters.
Edit: While I appreciate the thought, I’m not interested in alternatives to my setup. I like my countertop water dispenser, and I’m looking for a way to keep my current QoL during an outage with the least amount of trouble.
2 days a month!? shitbags. sorry dude, i have nothing useful to say but that sounds terrible. I assume trying to vote out whoever permitted such abusive disrespect to your home is unlikely to work.
Our city council member is actually pretty great. He’s in our neighborhood group chat and will respond almost instantly to issues and get us the engineers reports before the city alert system does its thing.