If you are concerned about water and COVID-19.

[roamer65]

If your tap water is normally safe, these CDC guidelines apply...

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/making-water-safe.html

Boiling it inactivates viruses, kills bacteria and protozoans.

Leave the bottled water for those who truly need it.

[Journeyman]

1. What do you expect to happen with tap water? . . .

[uppityperson]

2. Seriously

[Journeyman]

3. Seriously. I'm trying to understand. . . .

[FreepFryer]

7. Given SARS similarities, plumbing could be an (unlikely) vector.

It was never conclusively proven, if I recall - but the concern persists.

The SARS virus that infected hundreds of people in a 33-story Hong Kong apartment tower probably spread in part by traveling through bathroom drainpipes, officials said yesterday in what would be a disturbing new confirmation of the microbe's versatility.

The possible explanation for what has been one of the most baffling and worrisome outbreaks in the epidemic indicates that the virus can be transmitted in ways other than close person-to-person contact.

"The possibility that the virus could by aerosol move through a vertical pipe through other pipes . . . into the air and affect so many people, that's not comforting," said Klaus Stohr, who is leading the World Health Organization's scientific efforts against SARS -- severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Stohr stressed, however, that even if the virus can spread through plumbing or in other ways, the pattern of the epidemic so far indicates that would occur only rarely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/18/in-hong-kong-apartment-tower-sars-virus-spread-through-plumbing/99bcd25f-de85-472a-b084-4f847e0dac9a/

[sl8]

10. Note that they're referring to drain/sewage lines, not potable water lines.

They're suggesting that it may spread in aerosol form from fixtures attached to improper or improperly maintained drain pipes. Residents had reported smelling sewer gas indoors, which will happen if you don't have properly installed traps or the traps don't have water in them.

[FreepFryer]

11. Excellent clarification, thank you! (nt)

[Chainfire]

4. Not a worry

I would think that the chlorination of municipal water systems would eliminate any contamination. My water is pumped from 300 feet underground and, while not treated, it should be safe from the effects of the virus.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Right. I don't get the point of bottled water in this instance.

I'm thinking more about dropping the salad for a month: It's not cooked and I don't know who's handling it.....

[MissB]

6. Someone on my local nextdoor

Suggested using a spray bottle of vodka to disinfect fruit and vegetables.

So... a new dish? Drunken salad?

(And I wholeheartedly agree that municipal water should be safe.)

[spinbaby]

9. I should buy some vodka

Just, you know, in case.

[spinbaby]

8. I stocked up on frozen vegetables

Also some frozen fruit. Fresh fruit and veg is what I’d miss most.

[roamer65]

13. I had the same thought.

I will probably do so as well.

[avlbeerfan]

12. utilities

Its probably a good idea to have a case of water. Lets say theres a line break and a shortage of repair crew workers because they are out sick or quarantined.
We are kind of in uncharted waters here.
Utilities have been ran for years with skeleton crews in a lot of cities because...well got to maximize the profits and revenue streams you know.