Ive recently learned about all the nasty things that come out of tap-water: bacteria, contaminants, hormones, drugs and heavy minerals are just a few of the things you can expect to find in over 80% of tested tap-water.
I've read that Brita filters don't do much other than remove some copper and lead from your drinking water, bottled water and "spring" water can come from municipal sources so your just paying for tap water and also contains micro-plastics. Third party water filters can cost up to $500 and are just glorified Brita filters with extra steps.
What methods do you recommend for obtaining clean and healthy drinking water?
God already gave you two water filters. Anything you pee out is uncontabinated
Carson Johnson
If you're getting bacteria, hormones, or drugs in your tap water, call your city. This will be a HUGE issue for them, and they will fix it immediately. Literally the biggest issue in any city government, and they don't fuck around if there is a problem with the water. It get's carefully tested, often, and if there is a problem, I guarantee they will fix it quickly.
There is definitely chlorine in the water, which isn't great for you, but it's better than most water borne bacteria.
Michael Scott
i had a few friends who drive to this spring water fountain an hour out of town and fill up gallon jugs in their car
it seemed a bit baffling, it tasted like normal water to me with the additional cost of driving there and storing water in a ton of containers
Ryder Murphy
boil it then run it through a brita.
Joseph Mitchell
why hasn't flint, michigan though of this!? you're a genius!!!!
Jace Roberts
buddy of mine lives on family land with well water... any time they go out of town they bring a big ass water cooler full of their well water because they hate the taste of chlorine in city water. The ranch water tastes better, just because it doesn't taste/smell like chlorine or whatever else they put in city water
Brandon Thompson
Filters aren't going to improve the mineral content of the water. Tap water has been stripped of minerals and won't hydrate as well. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676322/
Jackson Bennett
please move to Flint
Henry Myers
order water delivery service. it's about $30/month for clean water, delivered.
Or to look at it another way: $30 to reduce the risk of dementia for yourself and/or autism and other neurological disorders in your kids.
Jacob Cox
Your friend is woke, tap water is garbage. It's fluoridated, chlorinated and pumped with anti-caking agent to keep the pipes clean.
Aiden Hall
ive bought a chemical water testing kit and fond that my water contained nothing more than a bit of chloride and fluoride , well below what we consider "dangerous"
honestly just be happy you don't live in Ghana where its a regular occurrence to drink chocolate brown water
you could always buy a water testing kit to get a better understanding of whats in your water that your ingesting every day but you cannot realistically filter out all the contaminants and any that pose a health risk are long dealt with by your municipal water filtration program
You pick a well known example of a huge fuckup to try and prove that everyone else is the same? Flint is literally famous because it's different. OP may live in Flint, but most people don't so I assumed he might live somewhere else. I used to work as a city engineer, and I looked at reports daily from the water department. They have a goddamn chemistry building, and multiple chemists run multiple tests independantly. The water distribution system is pressurized PVC, which doesn't react with the neutral water and the few additional particles in it. If there is a leak, it will be caught within a month, but no contaminants can get into the system because of the internal pressure.
It's not perfect, but veritably over 99.9% of all municipal tap water in over 99% of American cities is free of bacteria, hormones, and drugs. You can go buy a children's chemistry set from amazon, a Bunsen burner, a general chemistry and an organic chemistry book, and verify that your tap water doesn't have any of that shit.
Alexander Phillips
where did they move from?
Adam Peterson
Grew up drinking well water, all tap tastes the same to me
Jordan Powell
there's only one way you have to drink nothing but milk
Jack Hernandez
Russia :(
Easton Harris
fuck my bad meant to thread
Kayden Sanchez
>3rd world nigger town with lead pipes represents the most developed nation on earth.
Lead pipes are no problem if you know about them and keep the water flowing.
Ayden Ward
That's a perfectly fair point. Water tests are a matter of public record though, so if OP is scared of bad tap water, he should check to see if it's bad, before making an unsubstantiated claim that it is.
Liam Evans
russia>usa?
Robert Taylor
Prolly bullshit but if you're really serious distilling is the only accessible way to get "pure water" but you also miss out on important minerals...
distilled water is terrible for you. not only do you not get anything out of it due to your body not being able to use it, it's bad for your bones because it strips calcium away from your body. OP dont even think about distilled water
Henry Ortiz
Live in Sweden
Camden Hughes
Just add the minerals back from a clean source
Samuel Howard
then why bother with distilled? your body cant use it efficiently because it's acidic and not alkaline.
Carter Thomas
there's a portable reverse osmosis filter on amazon for like two hundred
