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In major cities in the US like the ones you name, it would be very unusual to doubt the safety of standard municipal tap water. In my home city, this is based
by mturmon 11y ago
In major cities in the US like the ones you name, it would be very unusual to doubt the safety of standard municipal tap water. In my home city, this is based upon my own reading of the annual water quality reports they put out. I filter a lot of my own drinking water for taste reasons, but it's un-necessary and I do not hesitate to drink from taps anywhere.
With the recent worries about BPA and other components of plastics, it's unclear if bottled water from plastic is safer than tap at the 99.9th percentile of paranoia. I don't know about exotic risks from bottled water in glass (radioactive Evian from Chernobyl?), but I assume they are there also.
Nonetheless, in my circle of friends, I do know people who drink bottled water because they think it's more pure. I also know people who don't use microwave ovens because of harmful radio waves, and others who do not use plastic containers or plastic-lined metal cans because of hormone disruptors in plastics. I think they're nuts, and they compensate by thinking I'm naive and complacent.
- colordrops 11y agoWhy would you think they are nuts? Hormone disrupters in certain plastics and can liners are a real problem, backed by science.
- mturmon 11y agoA close friend was an entrepreneur and evangelist in this space. I looked into it around 2008 and could not justify a significant level of concern relative to other risks. (Although "nuts" may be too strong...should say, "excessively worried".) If you know otherwise, please post a link.
- colordrops 11y agoBisphenol-A (recently banned for some uses, removed from most drinking bottles): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A Read the intro, "Health Effects" section, and sources. Bisphenol-S (still in use): http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/bisphenol-s-disrupts-estradiol.pdf http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/bisphenol-s-d... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150112154606.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150112154606.ht... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_S https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_S