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Post by laselva on Dec 8, 2013 9:07:08 GMT
Greetings All,
Me and my family (daughter is 10 and son is 4) are scheduled to arrive in Rakkah late December. I would appreciate if anybody could chime in and let me know if Brita filters, Faucet water purifiers, shower head filters and the like are at all required. I have been told that Rakkah has all sweet water which I take it that is good for all purposes...cooking, drinking and the likes. I would appreciate your honest responses based on your experience so this too is covered :-) . Thanks much in advance.
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revive
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Post by revive on Dec 8, 2013 9:56:34 GMT
I'm going to sell all of the filers that we brought in our shipment (which we bought thinking that we were going to live in Dhahran):
- Reverse osmosis system
- Shower filters
- Pur faucet filters
If you live in Rakkah, you definitely don't need the RO nor the shower filters. As for the Pur or Brita filters, that's really up to you. But you certainly don't have to. The water quality is already pretty good; it's actually much better (much softer) than what we had in Houston.
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Post by laselva on Dec 8, 2013 16:08:33 GMT
Thanks much revive. Appreciate it. I will perhaps carry only PUR and Brita filters then.
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Post by Catharinete on Dec 16, 2013 17:41:43 GMT
I agree - the water here is better than we had in the UK near London. I use tapwater for cooking and the kettle. I do buy bottled water to go in the dispenser for drinking cold simply because I don't know how filtered our water is and because we drink so much I'm inclined to play it safe. This is probably completely unnecessary!
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Post by aerternum8 on Mar 12, 2014 8:55:49 GMT
I didn't know what "sweet water" meant. I am pretty sure now that it is just the opposite of "salt" water - desalinated. It doesn't taste sweet, and it may taste very, very faintly like there is some salt in it. However, I take showers with it, brush my teeth with it, etc.
My wife and I bought a water dispenser for cooking and drinking though. You can get one from between 199SAR to 400SAR. Bottles are 17SAR initially and 7 SAR for each refill.
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Post by GroveWanderer on Mar 12, 2014 11:03:09 GMT
If you've ever accidentally got raw water (as used in main camp) in your mouth, you would know why they call it "sweet water."
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Post by vpainter on Mar 24, 2014 21:48:41 GMT
Rakah is sweet water, unlike the other compounds who have raw water which is treated but not completely desalinated; and sweet water which is desalinated and drinkable.
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