Have you ever dreamed of living in a gated community with your family? Or, have you already made your dream a reality by moving into an apartment in one of the best gated communities?
When you move into a new city — Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, or any other city — it is natural for you to aspire to move into a gated community. Irrespective of whether you move into a gated community as a bachelor or with your family, it will be a place where you can unwind and relax. You don’t have to stress about every little thing because there are other people to take care of them.
It will be a place where you can get back from work, take a dip in a pool, go for a walk without having to worry about traffic or maybe even play table tennis with your neighbours! An apartment in a gated community is a haven away from the hustle and bustle of India’s large metros.
It is a life of safety, convenience, and comfort. But even gated communities struggle when it comes to one thing — Water or access to safe drinking water! And that’s precisely what we are going to discuss in this article:
1. Knowing the sources of water in your gated community
2. Can you actually trust the pre-installed or store-bought standard water purification system?
3. Why you shouldn’t bank on water cans!
4. How can you get perfectly purified drinking water at home in a gated community?
Let’s dive right in.
1. Knowing the sources of water in your gated community
If you’ve lived in Bengaluru, you must have seen water being delivered to homes in tankers. This is much more common during the summer months when there is a shortage of Cauvery river water supply. But, certain areas of the city depend entirely on tankers for their daily water needs because they do not have a Cauvery water connection. Sadly, this is a common situation in most Indian cities especially in places that don’t have a municipal water connection.
While your gated community may have a Cauvery water connection, there will be times when the residents will have to depend on tanker water. Sometimes, you will receive water from a combination of water sources as well such as:
- Cauvery river
- Tanker
- Borewell
When you depend on a combination of water sources, making sure it’s safe becomes much harder! This is because the quality of water varies depending on the source.
“But that’s why I have a water purifier!” you may think.
2. Can you actually trust the pre-installed or store-bought standard water purification system?
Sometimes, you will find that there is already a water purifier installed in your apartment in the gated community. When you are moving into a new home, you will find this useful (one less thing to worry about, right?). In other cases, a water purifier is one of the first purchases you’ll make as you settle into a new home.
Not so fast, here’s something you should know. Traditional water purification systems and water purifiers purify every water the same way. This means that they purify the input water irrespective of the quality. As mentioned in the previous section, you may receive water of different qualities at various times.
If you are wondering what the problem is, we have simplified it for you in the image below:
Are you wondering what is wrong with consuming over-purified water? Here are the problems associated with water that has been purified beyond the required amount.
A. Over-purified water does not contain minerals that are necessary for your body. The filtration process will remove the required amount of minerals from the water.
B. The water will be tasteless which will lead you to consume a lesser amount of water every day. This can have an adverse effect on your health.
Due to these reasons, you cannot rely on the pre-installed water purification system in your apartment or a standard water purifier you buy from a store. You need a device that can provide you with perfectly purified water so that you get a sufficient amount of minerals.
But if you are staying with other flatmates in a gated community and if there is no pre-installed water purifier, you may be relying on the 20-litre plastic water cans.
3. Why you shouldn’t bank on water cans!
To most people, the 20-litre plastic water cans are the most easily accessible solution to their drinking water needs. This may be the case with you and your flatmates too because all you need to do is call the neighbourhood store to get them.
But there are several hygiene problems associated with the water you get in water cans. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, it is even more important to have safe access to drinking water.
Here are a few problems associated with the water you receive in the 20-litre water cans:
- You may not get water cans delivered on time.
- You don’t know who handled the water can before it was delivered.
- You can’t be sure of the water quality or safety of the water source.
Want to know why water cans are not the ideal solution to your drinking water problems? Check out this article: Why Water Cans are Not the Ideal Drinking Water Solution in India.
Now you know why you should reconsider the use of water cans in your home. But, you have to make a hefty investment to own a water purifier. And once you own it, you will have to pay a fixed amount every year to maintain the water purifier. The annual maintenance charge will be between ₹4000-₹5000.
Irrespective of the amount you pay, you still get a water purifier that has a common filtration process for different water qualities. You will run into the same problem we discussed in the previous section. Moreover, will your flatmates be ready to shell out thousands of rupees to replace the water can? Probably not.
Well…here’s how you can get perfectly purified water at home without hefty investments. You can thank us later.
4. So how can you get perfectly purified drinking water at home in a gated community?
Be it for drinking or cooking, you should have access to safe drinking water at all times. You may have seen several people boiling water after they have collected it from a water purifier. This is because they know that they are receiving under-purified water. But, you’ll have to spend a sufficient amount of time boiling the water you will consume in a day.
Given that you are receiving water from different sources, you need a personalised solution to get perfectly purified water. That too, without making a hefty investment.
You can subscribe to DrinkPrime to get a personalised water purifier for your home.
All you need to do is request a call back from us so that we can suggest the perfect subscription plan for you based on your drinking water consumption.
Here’s how we personalise DrinkPrime for you:
Want to know how DrinkPrime is different from a regular water purifier? You can click the image below to learn more about how we ensure our subscribers access safe drinking water every day.
We hope this article helped you understand the problems associated with water and drinking water in your apartment in the gated community. Given that water is something we use and consume every day, you cannot compromise on its quality. So, make the right decision at the click of a button.
