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It bothers me that so many people drink bottled water in places where tap water is drinkable. But from time to time I'm reminded that even in those places somet
by h1fra 3y ago
It bothers me that so many people drink bottled water in places where tap water is drinkable. But from time to time I'm reminded that even in those places sometimes bottled water is unavoidable.
I have friends in Paris that can't drink tap water after they had led poisoning thanks to very old plumbing.
- rvnx 3y agoThis is a sentence you can say in places with nice water, but often the mineralization content is very different, the taste isn't really good, etc.
- hellweaver666 3y agoyou can get home filter systems (either manual jug style or plumbed in) that can deal with most of these problems.
- diggan 3y agoSeems like even those systems might be causing additional harm: > Ironically enough, the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]," the team wrote in the paper.
- dopidopHN 3y agoI live in New Orleans. Our water is the Mississippi water. The Mississippi is also the open sewer of the Midwest. And our sewer and water board is incompetent and corrupt ( I love public infra. This one sucks ) As a result. I don’t drink that water directly and filter it. I think that will be more and more common. At least in the US.
- HenryBemis 3y agoWould some Brita (or any other related product) filter pitcher help at this, or it wouldn't catch some/most/all of the nasty stuff? (genuinely asking)
- bolobo 3y agohttps://www.brita.ca/why-brita/health/whats-in-your-tap-water/ https://www.brita.ca/why-brita/health/whats-in-your-tap-wate... If you look at the list, even Brita doesn't claim that their pitcher filter the really nasty stuff. At most they "help to reduce". It looks like they are really designed only to remove the chlorine taste. Their "Faucet Mount Filters" looks a bit more effective.
- kylebenzle 3y agoWhy is HN being overrun with easily googleable questions?
- nervousvarun 3y agoWho Dat! Also live in NO. We also filter our water (though my primary contamination motivation is lead w/ a 2 year old over plastic). The S&WB almost needs it's own discussion thread. Not sure your average American HN reader can even comprehend the level of incompetence we have to deal with from that group.
- dopidopHN 3y agoYeah. Those sweet summer childs have no ideas.
- jdksmdbtbdnmsm 3y ago>And our sewer and water board is incompetent and corrupt Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago that a government under capitalism is a capitalist government.
- coldtea 3y ago>The Mississippi is also the open sewer of the Midwest. Shouldn't be a problem. Might I interest you in some new water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoA lot of places are high levels of Chlorine that also have bad effects, for instance in Spain it's pretty high and linked to lung issues when showering. Here still lead pipes are being discovered in old building, which has proven to lead to significant issues in Brain development of children. Also often other residue is found of farming & medicine and other things seeping into the ground water. So sadly finding clean & good water is not easy, bottled or tap.
- kylebenzle 3y agoDo heavy metal water filters not work in Paris for some reason?
- hollerith 3y agoMy five minutes of research suggests that it's cheaper to buy (as bottled water, in a store) all the water you need for drinking and cooking than to buy, install and maintain a purifier capable of removing lead.
- rldjbpin 3y agothis. you can buy 6 * 1.5L bottle pack for under 1.5 EUR from a supermarket. even a small brita jug would run you 25 for a combo with two cartridges. moreoever, brita works like the printer business and has horrible pricing policy. while it seems trivial in amount, the bottled water is ironically cheaper than many developing countries (unless you go for large 20L bottles that you need to exchange for filled ones).