How to live poor in Singapore 6

fill it up

You know Singaporeans get clucked at disapprovingly for buying, drinking, discarding plastic bottles water. We also regularly use up power to boil treated tap water without drinking.

What is less known, is I've not seen people refilling water bottles in stinky, dirty, littered public toilets. Sure, it's the same piped water treated clean - with stink germs, dirty chemicals, and polluted substances value-added, no?

But no one falls sick, drinking direct from tap at home, right? There possibly can be nothing unhealthy coming out of the pipes and taps there, yes? Especially when supply is disrupted and cut, and murky brown flow resumes? No wonder middle-class families afford costly additional water filtration systems with recurring expendables of throwaway filters, or recyclable plastic water drums delivered.

Enter me, out of my whole family. Our relatively clean piped water at home fills reusable plastic bottles before they biodegrade forever after too many years. No need for boiled water to refill trays of ice cubes hardened in freezer plastic.

So I can even avoid really cheap bottled plastic water outside, especially expensive branded spring water mineralised even in glass. And those large plastic drink bottles reused to store watered drinks from syrup and milks? Need to do that only rarely, so only a spare or two on standby.

Don't spend with that much plastic any more.