JV Life: Drinking Water

You don't drink tap water in Peru. It's got giardia in it. But you have to drink something, so what to do? There's two ways to do it: boiling and purifying. Most Peruvians boil water and drink tea, or use boiled water when they make juice. Being Americans, most of us are in the habit of carrying around a water bottle on the daily. We are fortunate in that the parish provides us with Micropur tablets, which use silver to kill off anything harmful in the water. How does that work? I have no idea. Anyways, here's what the water purifying process looks like in the Mountain House.

1. Fill up the 20 liter San Luis jug (pictured right). This takes like ten minutes because we do it with a pictcher. How I wish we had a bit of hose to hook up to the faucet.
2. Put the Micropur purifying tablet in it. Don't forget this or everyone will be sick!
3. Leave a note on top of the water jug saying at what time the water will be ready (in 2 hours).
4. Pour water from the jug into the dispenser on top of the fridge (pictured below).
5. Repeat pretty much every day.