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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply?  Genuinely curious.[/quote]

You can speculate.. with good results.. 
 
Start here:
Per NIH...
[b]Viruses in drinking water can cause infectious diseases[/b]. In the past, hepatitis A and E were the most frequently observed drinking- water-borne viral infections, but in recent years several small- and large-scale norovirus epidemics have been described, even in Europe.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17334891

Then proceed..

Water-transmitted viral pathogens that are classified as having a moderate to high health significance by the World Health Organization (WHO) include adenovirus, astrovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, rotavirus, norovirus and other caliciviruses, and enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and polioviruses [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482390/

Then ask yourself how in heaven the virus got into my water source and why is it here.. 
How? because water is in contact with the underground water which runs through all kinds of dead animal matter for one..
and  the why is it there part would be.. because the municipal water purification system can only do that much...

So then move to solution..
Ask yourself what if the Corona virus will find its way into the water supply

and immediately check what kills it..
this is not perfect but will do:..
Thorough cooking is expected to kill the virus because we know that a [b]heat treatment of at least 30min at 60ºC is effective with SARS.[/b]

close enough..

So time for conclusion:

Yes, it can find it's way to the water source. How, in million ways. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because while
the corona virus is pretty damaging in a raw from to the human body it can not survive heat treatment much. If you ever studied what can kill mad cow disease you would know that pretty much no heat processing would do. Here we are just lucky, clearly you can not be everything at once as a virus, you need to choose your job just like us humans :)..

COVID19 has a narrow specialization and is not an expert in resisting the heat. It is very weak dude, comes to heat and humid resistance.

Just boil your water long enough and he stand no chance.. as you see 30min at 60ºC kills SARS which is a member of the same family. So just boil your water and you are good. For your reference the boiling point for C is  100C.. so you probably don't need the 30 minutes prescribed for 60C.. however as you see boiling rocks.

Boiling is as old as humanity way to keep your water pathogen free. So once water is boiled you need not to worry if there once was a COVID 19. because he is history...

So why bottled water for drinking? Beats me, because you truly can to boil the heck out of it.

Now, the only thing I am still trying to crack is the cold water in the faucet. Provided our water can get really hot in the boiler, the virus can and will get killed there, so using hot water is covered. But what's the deal with the cold water? That is not boiled at any point so if it is contaminated, what happens if you take a shower or wash your face without soap or
even if you just rinse your body after using soap.. are you actually decontaminating yourself right there and then?

Imagine you just washed your hands with soap, fine you removed the virus.. and now if you rinse the soap with mix of cold and hot water.. barely warm.. are you reapplying virus provided it found it's way to the water source? Hm... 
Thoughts? I can' not do all the work right?

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But what if there is a water main break and all the workers are sick?  It could take a while to be fixed.[/quote]

Yes, I'm not worried about the virus in the water supply. I'm worried if the water main breaks or if we get a boil water notice. Both happened here in the last 12 months so it's not unthinkable.

A $3 case of water from Costco is a no-brainer. 
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