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๋ด‰์ˆ˜๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐˆ์•„์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ
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๋ด‰์ˆ˜๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐˆ์•„์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ

7 min readUpdated: 2025๋…„ 12์›” 10์ผ
Emma Chen

Emma Chen

Glass Specialist

๋ด‰์ˆ˜๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐˆ์•„์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ

Fresh water is essential for a clean, healthy bong experience. As the WHO ์ˆ˜์งˆ ์ง€์นจ note, standing water can harbor harmful microorganisms. Yet it's one of the most overlooked aspects of bong maintenance. This guide explains exactly how often to change your water based on your usage, the health risks of old water, and best practices for keeping your bong fresh.

๋น ๋ฅธ ๋‹ต๋ณ€

์ตœ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ธ์…˜ ํ›„์— ๋ด‰ ์›Œํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์งํ›„ ๋ด‰์ˆ˜์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ๋ฆผ์€ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐํ•œ์ด ์ง€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ธ์…˜์—์„œ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋ด‰์„ ํ—น๊ตฌ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋ฏผ๋ฌผ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์œ 

๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์˜ ์ด์œ 

์„ธ๊ท  ์„ฑ์žฅ:

  • ์ด์ƒ์ ์ธ ์กฐ๊ฑด์—์„œ 20๋ถ„๋งˆ๋‹ค 2๋ฐฐ์”ฉ ์„ธ๊ท ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ
  • ๋ด‰์ˆ˜๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(๋ ˆ์ง„์—์„œ ์˜จ๋‚œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด‰์ด‰ํ•œ ์˜์–‘์†Œ)
  • 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ›„, ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์ฝœ๋กœ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํก์ž…์‹œ ํ˜ธํก๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์—ผ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ

๊ณฐํŒก์ด์™€ ๊ณฐํŒก์ด:

  • ํŠนํžˆ ์Šตํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ณ ์ธ ๋ฌผ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒ
  • ์œ ๋ฆฌ ํ‘œ๋ฉด์— ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ง‰(์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํ•œ ์ธต)์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ณฐํŒก์ด ํฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํก์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ ์ž๊ทน์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ:

  • ๋‹ด์ˆ˜ : ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ์—ฌ๊ณผ
  • ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ฌผ : ์˜ค์—ผ๋œ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„, ๊ณฐํŒก์ด ๋ฐ ๋ถ„ํ•ด ๋ฌผ์งˆ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ”„

ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์ด์œ 

๋ง› ์•…ํ™”:

  • ๋‹ด์ˆ˜ = ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋ง›
  • ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ฌผ = ์ง„ํ™ํƒ•, ์ง„ํ™ํƒ• ๋ง›
  • ์ˆ˜์ง€์™€ ํŒŒํŽธ์ด ์ถ•์ ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ ํžˆํŠธ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ:

  • ๋ฌผ ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋ง
  • ๋”๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฌผ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํŒŒํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ฌผ์ด ์˜ค์—ผ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Pair regular water changes with proper ๋Œ€๋งˆ์ดˆ ์ €์žฅ for the freshest experience.


์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰๋ณ„ ์ผ์ • ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ

์ผ์ผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž(์ผ์ผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ธ์…˜)

๊ถŒ์žฅ ์ผ์ •:

  • ๋งคํšŒ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฌผ(์ด์ƒ)
  • ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ: ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฌผ
  • ์„ธ์…˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋ด‰ ํ—น๊ตฌ๊ธฐ
  • ๋ฐค์ƒˆ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค

๋” ์ž์ฃผ:

  • ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ธ์…˜ = ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์˜ค์—ผ
  • ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ง€ ์ถ•์ 
  • ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์‹ํ’ˆ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์›

์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž(์ผ์ผ 1ํšŒ)

๊ถŒ์žฅ ์ผ์ •:

  • ๊ฐ ์„ธ์…˜ ์ „์— ๋‹ด์ˆ˜
  • ์„ธ์…˜ ํ›„ ๋น„์šฐ๊ณ  ํ—น๊ตฌ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.
  • ๋ฐค์ƒˆ ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ—น๊ตผ

๋น„์ •๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž(์ฃผ๋‹น ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ)

๊ถŒ์žฅ ์ผ์ •:

  • ๊ฐ ์„ธ์…˜๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋ฌผ์„ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
  • ๋งค๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํ›„ ํ—น๊ตฌ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ฆฐ ๋ด‰
  • ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ฌผ์— ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋งค๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ด‰์„ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์ฃผ๋ง/๋น„์ž๊ฒฉ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž

๊ถŒ์žฅ ์ผ์ •:

  • ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฌผ(๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ)
  • ๋ด‰์„ ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊ฑด์กฐ๋œ ๋ณด๊ด€


๋ฌผ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ต์ฒด๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ

์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์ง•ํ›„:

  • ๋ฌผ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค
  • ๋ฌผ์€ ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰/๊ฐˆ์ƒ‰ ์ƒ‰์กฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋– ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์‹œ์  ์ž…์ž
  • ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์— ํ•„๋ฆ„
  • ์ˆ˜์„ ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ์— ์ž”๋ฅ˜๋ฌผ

๋ƒ„์ƒˆ ์ง•ํ›„:

  • ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•œ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ
  • ํ€ดํ€ดํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ
  • ๋ด‰์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ ๋„ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„๋Š”

๋ง› ํ‘œ์‹œ:

  • ๋‚ก๊ณ  ์—‰์„ฑํ•œ ๋ง›
  • ํ‰์†Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•œ ํžˆํŠธ
  • ํ‰์†Œ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ง›

๋‹ค์Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ: ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ


24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ทœ์น™

๋ด‰์ˆ˜๋ฅผ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Hour 0-1: Water is essentially clean, just filtering smoke

Hours 1-6: Bacteria begins colonizing, minimal growth

6-12 ์‹œ๊ฐ„: Bacterial populations increasing, biofilm starting

12-24 ์‹œ๊ฐ„: Significant bacterial growth, water quality declining

24+ hours: Major bacterial colonies, potential mold, health risk territory

๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋„ ์ ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ด‰์€ ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค
  • ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ง‘์•„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค
  • ํ•œ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์…จ๊ตฐ์š”
  • ๋ฎ์—ฌ์žˆ๋‹ค


๋ด‰์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„(๊ณผํ•™)

๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ:

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„:

  • ์Šˆ๋„๋ชจ๋‚˜์Šค(ํ ๊ฐ์—ผ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ)
  • ๋Œ€์žฅ๊ท (์ทจ๊ธ‰ ์‹œ)
  • ํ™ฉ์ƒ‰ ํฌ๋„์ƒ๊ตฌ๊ท  (๊ณตํ†ต์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ)
  • ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„

์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

  • Warmth from smoke creates ideal temperature
  • Resin provides nutrients
  • Moist environment promotes growth
  • Your mouth introduces bacteria

Health risks:

  • Respiratory infections
  • Bronchitis
  • In rare cases, serious lung infections
  • Compromised immune systems at higher risk


Best Practices for Fresh Water

Before Each Session

1. Empty old water completely

2. Rinse with warm water

3. Add fresh, clean water

4. Test water level by inhaling without lighting

After Each Session

1. Empty water immediately (or within the hour)

2. Quick rinse with warm water

3. Shake out excess

4. Allow to air dry if not using again soon

For Extended Breaks

1. Empty all water

2. Clean with alcohol/salt

3. Rinse thoroughly

4. Dry completely

5. Store dry


What About Ice Water?

Ice water doesn't change the schedule.

  • Same bacterial risks apply
  • Ice melts, diluting but not purifying
  • Change just as frequently as regular water
  • Cold slows but doesn't stop bacterial growth


Water Quality Considerations

Tap Water

Fine for most users:

  • Municipal water is treated
  • Minerals don't affect bong use
  • Most common choice

Considerations:

  • Hard water leaves mineral deposits
  • Chlorine taste may transfer slightly

Filtered Water

Slightly better:

  • Fewer minerals = less residue
  • Cleaner taste
  • Worth it if you have a filter anyway

Distilled Water

Cleanest option:

  • No minerals
  • Least residue buildup
  • Marginally better performance
  • Probably overkill for most users

What NOT to use

  • Standing water (pond, puddle - obviously)
  • Pool water (chlorine, chemicals)
  • Flavored waters (sugar = bacteria food)
  • Old bottled water (same issues as old bong water)


Common Excuses (And Why They're Wrong)

"The water still looks clear"

Bacteria is microscopic. By the time water looks dirty, it's been contaminated for hours. Clear water older than 24 hours is still contaminated.

"I'll change it tomorrow"

The 24-hour rule exists for a reason. "Tomorrow" means bacteria has all night to multiply. Just change it now - it takes 30 seconds.

"It's just me using it"

Your own bacteria still grows. Your mouth introduces new bacteria every use. Single-user bongs get just as dirty.

"I covered it so it's fine"

Covering doesn't kill bacteria already in the water. It might slow evaporation but doesn't preserve freshness.

"I only took one hit"

One hit still introduces bacteria and smoke residue. Contamination begins immediately.


Quick Reference Guide

Usage PatternChange WaterEmpty After UseClean Bong
Multiple dailyEvery sessionYesWeekly
Once dailyEvery sessionYesWeekly
Few times/weekEvery sessionYesAfter each use
OccasionalEvery sessionYesBefore each use

The Bottom Line

Changing bong water is:

  • Free
  • Takes 30 seconds
  • Significantly healthier
  • Makes hits taste better
  • Easy habit to form

Not changing water is:

  • Health risk
  • Affects taste
  • Lazy
  • Unnecessary

There's no good reason to use old bong water. Make fresh water a habit - your lungs (and taste buds) will thank you.


This guide is for educational purposes. Cannabis laws vary by jurisdiction.

Frequently Asked Questions

๋„ค. ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„๋Š” ๋ด‰์ˆ˜์—์„œ 20๋ถ„๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐค์ƒˆ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ฐ•ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ง‰ ํ˜•์„ฑ ๋ฐ ๊ณฐํŒก์ด ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์…˜ ํ›„์—๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ด‰์„ ๋น„์šฐ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

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