> chances are that the water coming from your faucet is perfectly fine to drink (though there are, of course, some exceptions) The article lists only two areas

> chances are that the water coming from your faucet is perfectly fine to drink (though there are, of course, some exceptions) The article lists only two areas with unsafe water that have had a lot of media attention, but there are so many places under water boil orders that I can't even keep track of them all. Every single state I've checked shows they've had some problem with their water in the last year or two (caused by things like contamination, infrastructure failures, storm damage, power outages etc) that caused them to issue warnings not to drink the water without boiling it first. I found one boil order just two towns over from me that had already been lifted by the time I heard about it! Because these types of issues are constant and everywhere it makes drinking the water while traveling very risky and since I don't obsessively monitor the sites and social media profiles for my own town/city/county I can't be sure I'd always know about one issued for the water in my own home! Nobody seems to have much confidence in their local water quality and after seeing how in flint MI they worked to hide the danger from the public and faced no meaningful consequences for their actions it's not hard to imagine why. What can we do but get a good filter for our homes and watch for notices like a hawk? Seems like when outside of the home, water bottles are the only way to be sure the water won't poison you. When it comes to bottled water I strongly prefer spring water over the salted tap water soda companies push on us, but I wonder what the PFAS content of spring water is. Now that even rain water is contaminated and unfit for humans and animals is natural filtration good enough to keep spring water non-toxic?