Day 239: Safe to drink

Colombia

Drinking from a 5 liter sack of water

We chuckled a bit the first time we saw the 5 liter plastic bags of water hanging on a rack at the grocery store. Not ready to rock our water intake boat, we ended up buying another big water bottle like we always do and thought we’d save the bag for another day. We didn’t realize that these no shape sacks are about a quarter of the price of the large jugs. They are part of everyday life here and are sold at economic prices because they don’t require all the thick, industrial plastic. They even come in smaller sizes which are commonly seen being squeezed by people walking down the street. Through some trial and error, we figured out how to open and pour out some water from the 5 liter sack into our trusty 1.5 liter bottle. The tougher part was how to store it without tipping it over and losing the precious H2O.

No começo, quando vimos achamos um pouco estranho, mas depois, analisando, realmente é uma boa idéia. Para tomar água potável aqui na Colômbia só sendo comprada no supermercado, e ao invés de utilizar garrafas eles utilizam sacos de plástico. A única pergunta que passou em nossas mentes foi: Como conseguiremos tomar só um pouquinho de água de um saco plástico de 5 litros e depois, como armazenaremos isso? Vamos ter que tomar tudo de uma vez? rs, foram vários pensamentos até a tentativa de comprar uma e dar um jeito. E não é que conseguimos colocar a bolsita no cantinho da parede e ela ficou alí parada?!! Engraçado e muito mais enconômico, esse é o três em um colombiano, bebendo água, economizando e ajudando a mãe natureza de alguma forma.

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3 thoughts on “Day 239: Safe to drink

  1. so how do you store the remaining water then ?
    or you need to transfer the rest of intake water to a container ?

  2. Luckily, those were shelves of a makeshift closet. We were fortunate to have a real bed to get some shut-eye…

  3. Ohhhh! So much for the water bottles/bags. Those bunks on the wall don’t look very inviting as a place to get one’s necessary repose. :-)

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