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If you live in one of those areas you're far better off with a filtration system than regularly purchasing bottled water which is also not in any way guaranteed

• Retric 9y ago
  It can take a lot to filter water safely. The classic carbon filter under the sink does very little to improve safety, even reverse osmosis can fall short. So, while you can make things safer it's far more difficult than many assume.
  • andai 9y ago
    Sounds like the best option is to buy bottled water, and then filter out the microplastics.
    • AstralStorm 9y ago
      Most problems with plastics are chemical not physical contamination. (It is a solution of plasticizers and substrates in water.) I am pretty sure ingesting plastic sand would be nowhere newer bad without these. (Intestine shouldn't take that in.) These are extra hard to filter out. Even big fermentation tanks and reverse osmosis filters have problems with this.
      • haZard_OS 9y ago
        There is also the danger of microplastic particles acting as endocrine disruptors. This is a rapidly developing field within (eco)toxicology and is of growing concern among environmental scientists. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b01441 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b01441 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117341234?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717331613?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
    • beenBoutIT 9y ago
      Reverse osmosis should do the trick.