Why the hell would my fridge be connected tonthe water main in the first place?
Mine is. It has an automatic life maker and filtered water dispenser. It’s pretty common in houses in America, less so in rentals.
Some refrigerators can dispense cold filtered water.
Oh look at this guy with his fancy fridge that just gives away water!
What are you talking about?
I get not everyone has clean running water in the world, this sounds backwards.
How do you end up in place where you can multifunction fridges but not clean running water?
Clean running water doesn’t mean that biofilm doesn’t develop where air meets water. Aerators are a breeding ground.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/aerator
The city of Flint, Michigan, has entered the chat. But in more seriousness there are plenty of mostly harmless impurities in many municipal water systems such as an excess of minerals i.e. “hard water” and water filters can improve the quality of water that is considered clean enough to drink.
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Care to explain why?
Biofilm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm
Develops on faucet aerators. You should regularly clean them.
What method to clean them would you recommend? Just some bleach and a scrubbing brush? Would you have to remove them beforehand?
Google has suggestions like bleach and a toothbrush. I like to unscrew them. You need a rubber jar opener at minimum and sometimes pliers. Use a tiny bit of silicone food safe plumbers grease on the threads so next time it’s easy.
Cool. Thanks so much. I know what my weekend plan is now lol
Is this a meme I am too European to understand?
