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Tap water can contain (no joke) brain eating parasites. You should at the very least boil the dickens out of it.

• eru 5y ago
  Which countries / regions have this dangerous tap water? I'm fairly sure we don't have them in Singapore's tap water.
  • seattle_spring 5y ago
    Every country / region. The danger here is not present when drinking the water, it's only when inserting it directly into your sinus cavity.
  • quercusa 5y ago
    The naegleriasis infection has been documented in Australia in 1965, Czechoslovakia in 1962 to 1965, USA in 2003, 2011, 2013, 2020, and 2021, and Pakistan in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri