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BajaKim
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Home water delivery
Can anyone recommend a service for home delivery of purified water jugs?
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David K
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Wouldn't your location be an important factor in getting an "good" answer?
Baja is about the length of California and Oregon combined.
Otherwise, I agree with 'lencho' as we have Sparketts home delivery and like it, here in San Diego County!
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BajaKim
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | Wouldn't your location be an important factor in getting an "good" answer?
Baja is about the length of California and Oregon combined.
Otherwise, I agree with 'lencho' as we have Sparketts home delivery and like it, here in San Diego County! |
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BajaKim
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Good point David K! Los Barriles area. Thank you
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Ask your neighbors.
Watch for delivery trucks, then chat them up.
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Go to the local purified water store (agua purificada) and ask them about delivery.
A "water jug" is called a garrafón. Typically 5 gallons.
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Welcome to Baja Nomad!
  
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BajaKim
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Thank you!!
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gnukid
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The water truck will pass your house daily playing a song with garçon jugs to exchange, usually about 12 pesos, ask neighbors.
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Make sure to tip them well for carrying the heavy bottles up and into your house. Food deliveries, restaurants
and groceries too are new business in bcs. Some offer to shop for you at Costco...for a price$$.
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Unless you use RO water for things that most people don't, the frequency of refilling a garaphon or two is roughly the same as frequency of grocery
shopping. Going to town, taking garaphones.
I found 3 gallon jugs to be much more manageable than 5 gallon ones.
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I don’t think there is a service that delivers bottled water in the big blue bottles in Los Barriles. These are sold and refilled at the Tienda
Popular in Buena Vista.
You might try posting to the local Baja Pony Express bulletin:
https://www.thebajaponyexpress.com/wp/
…or posting on “Everything Los Barriles” on Facebook.
You might be able to make a private arrangement to have bottles delivered.
It is only the Gas Pasa truck that precedes is arrival with a musical announcement.
The smaller bottles available at grocery stores are more manageable, but recycling the containers may be a concern.
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Don Pisto
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"purificador el dorado" now I don't know anything about LB but up here norte where everyone's a crook every couple of years one of the delivery guys get busted for filling the garrafon's out of a garden hose, who knows
how often it happens? anyway have you considered an under sink RO system? I love mine.
there's only two things in life but I forget what they are........
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Alm
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| Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto | | I don't know anything about LB but up here norte where everyone's a crook every
couple of years one of the delivery guys get busted for filling the garrafon's out of a garden hose, who knows how often it happens? anyway have you
considered an under sink RO system? I love mine. |
If you want to do it right, do it yourself  . I just take empty 3 gal bottles
when going to town for whatever my other needs might be. Can see the RO machine, they've been there for years if not decades.
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windgrrl
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Purificada El Dorado in Los Barriles was closed indefinitely last season.
We have used a simple charcoal filter on the central town system with no problems for many years.
The water supply and infrastructure are overburdened and predicted to be more so as the area continues to boom with development.
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Alm
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Activated carbon filters very little. All minerals, nitrates and bacteria go through. If there is no RO station in town, I would consider an
under-sink system.
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fwiw, the Gas Pasa truck that plays 'El gas ...' should be avoided at all costs ... Joaquin is a bandido ... not sure what the other options in LB
are, but you should find one if you can ... that's just ... like ... my opinion, dude
jake
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windgrrl
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| Quote: Originally posted by Alm | | Activated carbon filters very little. All minerals, nitrates and bacteria go through. If there is no RO station in town, I would consider an
under-sink system. |
Depends on your filtration needs and water source quality. The filter I mentioned is used to trap a bit of sediment.
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the first stores for purified water in La Paz have closed - no water
water trucks (Pipas) no longer delivering in La Paz - no water
we are at the beginning of bad times
Harald Pietschmann
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc | the first stores for purified water in La Paz have closed - no water
water trucks (Pipas) no longer delivering in La Paz - no water
we are at the beginning of bad times |
Is the problem due to mechanical failure in 1 well? Or is problem due to overdrafting of aquifer resulting in well running dry? According to first
article, it is the former.
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/se-agudiza-crisis-de-...
https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/inicia-cierre-d...
https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/07/a-punto-del-col...
[Edited on 7-14-2022 by mtgoat666]
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