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Have you never heard of such a concept? Some people do it because they are going camping or in case the water goes out in a storm or rarely if the water from the tap is of dubious quality.

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LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I grew up in a farmhouse that had contaminated well water. We got all of our drinking and cooking water from jugs. It fucking sucked because it was inconvenient as hell

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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean, yeah of course, but preparing camping supplies and going for groceries seems not quite the same thing.

As a European, being longer than maybe a weekend cut off from external help (or the general concept of a natural disaster as a possible occurence) is not really a thing. Worst that happens is some flooding near rivers and the coast on rare occasions.

Dubious water quality is also not a problem people have to deal with on a frequent basis, at least in germany. You can give your landlord major shit if you don’t have access to proper, clean water. (If you own your place it is your problem of course)

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- dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What I’m getting at is these large plastic jugs of water are not just purchased routinely by the majority of the population when grocery shopping.
  
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