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Municipal tap water isn't worse for you than bottled water.
by sp332 3y ago
Municipal tap water isn't worse for you than bottled water.
- hackyhacky 3y agoSo you're saying that bottled water also contains PFAS?
- sp332 3y agoA lot of bottled water is literally packaged tap water. Anyway https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135421004905?dgcid=rss_sd_all https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431... and https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/whats-really-in-your-bottled-water-a5361150329/ https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/whats-really-i...
- waveBidder 3y agoI mean, yes, the bottle itself is a source of microplastics.
- sp332 3y agoMicroplastics is a different conversation.
- Analemma_ 3y agoIf you look at your bottled water, a whole lot of it has labels on it that say something like "comes from a municipal source". It's tap water sold at a 5000% markup.
- hackyhacky 3y agoJust because it's from a municipal source doesn't mean that it isn't filtered subsequently.
- wccrawford 3y agoIt also doesn't mean that it isn't way better than the local tap water in many, many places. People don't buy bottled water that tastes bad, and it's pretty likely to taste worse than your local water if it's worse for you than your local water.
- serf 3y ago>It's tap water sold at a 5000% markup. it's tap water, processed, and bottled. The processes often include extra filtration and cleaning methods that the individual corporate groups dictate. I'm not trying to suggest that bottled water is some tremendous value compared to municipal water, but let's not pretend that the markup comes with nothing.
- skipkey 3y agoMany years ago I knew someone who managed a bottled water plant. They didn’t use tap water, they had a very deep well pulling from an aquifer. They then filtered the heck out of it, and then added back in a very small, proprietary mix of minerals.
- airstrike 3y agoIt depends on the bottled water, to be fair. I suppose it also depends on where the tap is located.
- xcv123 3y agoTry distilling 4 litres (1 gallon) of tap water and see what is left behind. Now repeat that experiment with high quality bottled water. In my city (developed first world country) the tap water contains toxic repugnant chemical sludge.