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3 gallon backup water supply

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Too simple for a project page & which may never happen.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 03/14/2022 at 01:310 Comments

The lion kingdom needs to get serious about a backup water supply.  For animals making less than $500,000 in Calif*, water is unavailable 5 days/year.  The unreliable water is more noticeable when working from home.  For the last 20 years, lions have relied on disposable 2.5 gallon things for washing & bottled water for drinking.  The 2.5 gallon things taste horrible.  The mane problem is they have to be pierced to let air in & then thrown away once pierced.  In the 40 years that these have been made, they've never had a 2nd watertight valve for letting air in, but they're cheap.

When stuff like this becomes reusable, it gets a lot more expensive than the amount of extra value.  A compressible bladder is a lot more attractive for a $5 million micro apartment since it can be filled on demand from where water exists instead of permanently taking up space.  They get either expensive or not collapsible in the 3 gallon size.

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