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Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)! Less tongue in cheek, yes, people will often chill thei

Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)! Less tongue in cheek, yes, people will often chill their tap water in the summer before drinking. But it's perfectly drinkable at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap. The water supply in my locality comes from a surface reservoir, leading to the higher summer temperatures.

alkonaut 4y ago
I just never reflected on the idea that cold tap water in summer is quite luxurious. I have that but I have no idea why tbh.
- refurb 4y ago
  Indeed. Having living in SE Asia where you can drink the tap water, it’s rough getting a glass of water from the tap and it’s 25C. There is no “cold” tap, just warm and hot taps.
  - zarzavat 4y ago
    > SE Asia where you can drink the tap water A very verbose way of saying Singapore.
    - seba_dos1 4y ago
      Your way is more verbose, by two characters to be exact.
    - refurb 4y ago
      You can drink it other countries! It's risky, but you can drink it!
      - philliphaydon 4y ago
        Taiwan, Japan, Singapore. Only countries you can safely drink tap water in Asia AFAIK.
        refurb 4y ago
        Also South Korea, Brunei and Hong Kong (apparently). But I have friends who rinse their mouth, brush with tap water in Vietnam and haven't gotten sick. It obviously varies a lot by which city (or even within the city), but the water is tested and obviously highly chlorinated (by smell). I mean, I wouldn't drink it regularly because I don't think they look for non-biologic toxins like metals.
        philliphaydon 4y ago
        I've rinsed my mouth in most countries in SEA. But never drink it. In Taiwan you can drink tap water but vast majority of people boil it because apparently alot of the pipes in homes are old so they boil it first. Sometimes I'm lazy and don't want warm water so I just fill my bottle with tap water.
joe5150 4y ago
In Arizona, "cold" water at the tap can easily be in the neighborhood of 100F/37C all summer. We kept a water filter pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, so it wasn't really a problem there, but it did make it impossible to take a truly cool shower or follow a recipe that instructs you to rinse something in cold water.
- theGnuMe 4y ago
  I grew up in AZ.. just run the water until it cools down. Unless your showering from an outside hose it'll be 50 degrees just from being underground. If you aren't getting that then something is very wrong with your plumbing I'd recon. Like, the tap intake comes into the house after the swap cooler on the roof kind of thing. Plus the evap after the shower.. that'll cool you off.
  - SECProto 4y ago
    You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.
  - kortilla 4y ago
    Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.
    - theGnuMe 4y ago
      Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Also you’ll notice no water towers. And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.
      - kortilla 4y ago
        > Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Not as part of the “to tap” process. > Also you’ll notice no water towers. Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs. > And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.
heavenlyblue 4y ago
> Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)! It's prepared at 100C, and _may_ be served at 100C, but it does not enter your body at 100C or you will burn your mouth. > But it's perfectly drinkable at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap. The water supply in my locality comes from a surface reservoir, leading to the higher summer temperatures. It may be drinkable, but temperatures above 25C will be a cesspit for legionella.

alkonaut 4y ago

I just never reflected on the idea that cold tap water in summer is quite luxurious. I have that but I have no idea why tbh.

refurb 4y ago
Indeed. Having living in SE Asia where you can drink the tap water, it’s rough getting a glass of water from the tap and it’s 25C. There is no “cold” tap, just warm and hot taps.
- zarzavat 4y ago
  > SE Asia where you can drink the tap water A very verbose way of saying Singapore.
  - seba_dos1 4y ago
    Your way is more verbose, by two characters to be exact.
  - refurb 4y ago
    You can drink it other countries! It's risky, but you can drink it!
    - philliphaydon 4y ago
      Taiwan, Japan, Singapore. Only countries you can safely drink tap water in Asia AFAIK.
      - refurb 4y ago
        Also South Korea, Brunei and Hong Kong (apparently). But I have friends who rinse their mouth, brush with tap water in Vietnam and haven't gotten sick. It obviously varies a lot by which city (or even within the city), but the water is tested and obviously highly chlorinated (by smell). I mean, I wouldn't drink it regularly because I don't think they look for non-biologic toxins like metals.
        philliphaydon 4y ago
        I've rinsed my mouth in most countries in SEA. But never drink it. In Taiwan you can drink tap water but vast majority of people boil it because apparently alot of the pipes in homes are old so they boil it first. Sometimes I'm lazy and don't want warm water so I just fill my bottle with tap water.

joe5150 4y ago

In Arizona, "cold" water at the tap can easily be in the neighborhood of 100F/37C all summer. We kept a water filter pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, so it wasn't really a problem there, but it did make it impossible to take a truly cool shower or follow a recipe that instructs you to rinse something in cold water.

theGnuMe 4y ago
I grew up in AZ.. just run the water until it cools down. Unless your showering from an outside hose it'll be 50 degrees just from being underground. If you aren't getting that then something is very wrong with your plumbing I'd recon. Like, the tap intake comes into the house after the swap cooler on the roof kind of thing. Plus the evap after the shower.. that'll cool you off.
- SECProto 4y ago
  You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.
- kortilla 4y ago
  Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.
  - theGnuMe 4y ago
    Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Also you’ll notice no water towers. And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.
    - kortilla 4y ago
      > Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Not as part of the “to tap” process. > Also you’ll notice no water towers. Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs. > And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.

heavenlyblue 4y ago

> Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)! It's prepared at 100C, and _may_ be served at 100C, but it does not enter your body at 100C or you will burn your mouth. > But it's perfectly drinkable at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap. The water supply in my locality comes from a surface reservoir, leading to the higher summer temperatures. It may be drinkable, but temperatures above 25C will be a cesspit for legionella.