---
title: "And What About the Water? 😷"
url: "https://loyalty.sarl/en/posts/2025-12-24-and-what-about-the-water/"
date: 2025-12-24
tags: ["China"]
source: "https://t.me/statkarusel/160"
language: en
---

# And What About the Water? 😷

*The grass is always greener, and the water always softer, wherever you happen not to be.*

I've ordered a new TDS meter.

TDS isn't "the environment", it's civilisation's bare minimum of hygiene:

0–150 ppm — drink it without philosophising
150–300 ppm — fine, but with "character"
300–500 ppm — survival mode: boil it, filter it
500+ ppm — no longer water, more a chronicle of industrialisation

For reference, the average kettle in the Home Counties lives at the top of that third band, and nobody bats an eyelid.

A device that has worked for 12 years and tasted the water of 70+ countries has earned the right to rust with dignity.

That isn't corrosion, it's the patina of travel 🫶🏽

#china

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