Why the hell would my fridge be connected tonthe water main in the first place?
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I guess if you have one of those fancy fridges where you can get cold water or ice. Some of them require a water connection
Some refrigerators can dispense cold filtered water.
Mine is. It has an automatic life maker and filtered water dispenser. It’s pretty common in houses in America, less so in rentals.
Automatic life maker‽ You definitely need to clean your dispenser tube...
I was just talking to my partner about how I have cum ducts last night, so this is on par for me atm.
Oh look at this guy with his fancy fridge that just gives away water!
shit how do you clean the dispenser tubes
What are you talking about?
I get not everyone has clean running water in the world, this sounds backwards.
How do you end up in place where you can multifunction fridges but not clean running water?
Same place where you go bankrupt by calling an ambulance... And they consider themselves a developed country lol
Hey! You watch your mouth! We’ve developed lots of things including how to efficiently go bankrupt from a medical emergency!
Having freedom means the freedom to not afford living, too.
Clean running water doesn't mean that biofilm doesn't develop where air meets water. Aerators are a breeding ground.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/aerator
The city of Flint, Michigan, has entered the chat. But in more seriousness there are plenty of mostly harmless impurities in many municipal water systems such as an excess of minerals i.e. "hard water" and water filters can improve the quality of water that is considered clean enough to drink.
Had me thinking for a moment before I realized that I'm too European to understand this.
Yeah, me too. If drinking water was unsuitable in my country, we'd hang the politicians from a lamppost or at the least talk about it endlessly in the newspaper until they did something.
Is this a meme I am too European to understand?
Barbarian.
I'm European and have a fridge with a water dispenser, it wasn't even too pricey
My fridge has water hookup but no filter. It makes ice. I have never cleaned it. I put the ice in everything. At the same time, I get really weird about drinking out of fridges at vrbos as they often have a water Dispenser with a filter and zero indication of when that filter was ever changed (never is a safe bet).
I added a filter to my ice maker. I just have a new filter shipped every 6 months so I remember to change it.
I don't have a energy leak the size of an ice/water dispenser in my fridge. I use those unwieldy things known as bottles.
I use a filtered tap which doesn't give cold water, as the fridge water is freezing.