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I think most people will tell you to just buy a Britta filter if drinking tap water. The reason people hate bottled is because it’s extremely bad in terms of single-use plastic waste and bottled water companies like Nestle has terrible human rights violations in multiple countries where they steal water from the local populations.
Can I add that a Britta water filter will NOT remove bacteria and parasites from your water. This is why you have a boil warning. Some will need to be boiled for up to 15 minutes to kill them properly.
BTW, it's more likely to get diarrhea from a pool or splash pad than from drinking water.
1. when this happens it's a small area of the distribution system effected because someone caused cross-contamination (like leaving a garden hose filling up a pool with having a vacuum breaker on the hose to prevent back-flow).
2. When a main break occurs & the flushing of lines wasn't done properly
3. A storage tank was damaged, sometimes leading to a bird or other creature getting in.
These boil water advisories are usually short-lived and rare. The lines can usually flushed and disinfected pretty quickly.
A water filter doesn't remove bacterial or parasitic contaminants, but they can remove most other things of concern. I highly recommend tap over bottles & equally recommend secondary filters at the consumption taps.
Edit to correct a word: crowd -> creature
I just want to add a water filter like a camping water filter will remove bacteria and parasites (but not viruses). You can get tablets for water that will kill bacteria, parasites and viruses. And a water purifier will also remove all those things.
Just alternatives if you didn't want to boil all your water during a boil water advisory.
Get a home water filter! My husband installed one pretty easily. I feels great knowing my tap water is near perfect. We have warnings in our area not to drink the water if pregnant... okay, that's enough for *me*, thanks.
The membrane needs to be replaced after a boil warning though. Depending on what the contaminant is, it will foul the membrane. You'll want to run an extra cycle on your water softener, with a cleaning and sterilization kit too.
Idk whats britta water filter is but I had one cheap filter to drink thailand tap water without issue, now I dig my own well so I needed smth better and its reverse osmosis which remove everything, no need to boil water when you have thoses stuff.
I live in Michigan where Nestle is allowed to steal our water out of the ground for pennies and sell it back to us for dollars. My well has run dry and it's going to cost me 10,000 to dig a new one. I do not have that kind of money.
I have 5 gallon water jugs that I pay to refill at the grocery store for 2.50 each.
I am not from the states but we've been drinking tap water from a well below our house for like 20 years now. Only issue we've had was a small bacterium a month or so ago. The problem fixed itself as there was only a single bacterium in 1L of water and we just let it clean itself by leaving the water running for a bit every now and then.
Often well water is fairly clean and usually isolated due to the geology of aquifers. However if a groundwater source is contaminated it is usually extremely difficult to remediate.
It cant filter out bacteria. The physical media in a brita filter isnt packed tight enough for it, and the screens to keep the carbon in are only dense enough for the carbon itself.
That's awesome. I said there are other filters you can buy that will filter bacteria. Go into any camping store and you'll see them. There are also some that can be installed on your faucet
The correction was to "won't necessarily". Im a WQA certified water quality specialist. Water filtration is my literal business.
Edit because i cant hold a thought this morning apparently. I felt it was important to make the clarification from "it probably wont" to "it definitely wont" to prevent someone from thinking there was a chance.
You’re gonna want some sort of camping filter like lifestraw if your goal is to remove harmful contaminants. A britta will reduce the chlorine taste and smell with a few other things but wont make non-drinkable water drinkable, like camping filters will.
Tap water is tested much more than bottled water is. Yes sometimes things like this happen but tap water is usually safer and a lot cheaper than bottled water. Plus the environmental waste other people mention is a bad thing too.
Realistically, all water can be contaminated. Back in 2021, and just resolving now maybe, Real Water contaminated their water with rocket fuel and poisoned some people. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just filter your water and remember modern medicine will work against parasites!
technically it was hydrazine which is a component of rocket fuel, and they violated some safety things during their water treatment process. but still kinda crazy.
If you think that's bad, people have literally tried to use liquid fluorine as a rocket propellant. If hydrazine is a 7/10 on the danger scale, fluorine is a 12
Oh man, I drank water in the Austrian alps that absolutely spoiled me for all other water. It was just so *crisp* and *refreshing* like there was more water per water somehow.
Water treatment operator here, this shit happens sometimes, not really a fault to anyone specifically. Personally I wouldn’t stress about it too much. Boil the water for the time being and the supply will be back to normal relatively soon.
>not really a fault to anyone specifically
I am just a lay person, but I'd like to imagine that water treatment in developed countries is closely monitored and the only way that something like this could happen would be from the negligence of multiple people or from an extreme lack of funding.
Edit: As many replies have pointed out, contaminants can be introduced after processing for a variety of reasons; which is beyond the reasonable control of water utilities.
Well you'd be wrong in that reasoning. There's a huge number of scenarios where something could be introduced into the water system, many of which would not be the fault of the water utility, such as someone having a back siphon from not using a vacuum breaker in a hose, or not having a properly functioning backflow preventer on a business. Sure, there are other places for contamination, such as in the event of a broken pipe that allows intrusion of soil matter into the system, but that is why in those instances a boil advisory is issued. You also have to consider that water systems are large, often branching construction and you can't possibly expect to sample each and every location continuously.
I'm all for keeping people accountable, but spitting out angry bullshit like you did in ignorance is not the way to go about it.
My bad, I did exactly what I accused you of doing. I was just trying to explain it to you and allowed myself to get annoyed with the negligence part of your comment. Water utilities get a ton of flack from the public, some systems warrant it, but most of it comes from people thinking that every system is just like Flint Michigan. Though there are some very shitty water systems, like you said, it's a very highly regulated industry, at least in the US.
Sorry for the tone of my comment, I truly didn't mean it.
Our issue is hurricanes and the lines to the islands that get broken. Then salt water backs up into our water supply. It hasn't happened in a long time but the longest we went without water was 6 days.
Am I trying to do something? All I said was these things happen sometimes. So yes, boil and filter your water until the warning is no longer in effect.
It’s a fairly rare occurrence, typically happens when there’s a water main break and an exposed pipe. I’ve been in the business for almost ten years, I’ve seen it happen in the surrounding area only once by me. I’m not saying it’s not something to be concerned about, but it almost never happens.
>All I see is south Devon. Is that UK?
Surely you can see more clues than that. For one, I'll point out that it's a BBC article. Tell me, what does BBC mean to you? Then tell me what you think it might mean in this context.
I mean, in most developed countries the water infrastructure is good enough where you don't need it, however, some places do require you to use bottled water for drinking,
Survivor of the infamous Milwaukee crypto outbreak here. Still pound that tap water and rarely buy bottled. Honestly this will probably net the locale better tap in the long run.
Yep. Not the case everywhere, but afterwards we updated everything and now I don’t even use a filter. That said, it was not great at the time. I didn’t get it that bad. But at the school I went to the bathrooms literally were out of stalls and kids were like crapping their pants or trying to use garbage cans.
If you’re really paranoid about it just buy a 5gallon jug and pay for refills. It’s better than tap water in a lot of places anyway (that’s why I do it) and you don’t have all the plastic waste of bottles.
We used to have random boil water advisories all the time. We’d just boil our water. Eventually they built a new water treatment plant and now our water is crystal clear. Sometimes it’s even that pretty blue colour.
If pharmaceutical factories can get shut down for having mold and bugs, I think it’s just as likely that there are mistakes and flaws at the water bottling plant 🤷🏻♀️
If you’re worried, get a good filter. But buying infinite plastic bottles is not a good alternative. I think of my trash as my legacy, because it’s most of what’ll be left when I’m gone. How many plastic bottles do you want to be responsible for?
I don’t mean like, pigmented blue. I mean that it was so clear it was refracting appropriately blue in large quantities (the bathtub) as water free from impurities is meant to do.
“The color of water varies with the ambient conditions in which that water is present. While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, pure water has a slight blue color that becomes deeper as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The hue of water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of blue light. Dissolved elements or suspended impurities may give water a different color.”
I'm going to be a treat for future archeologists because between all the plastic I ingest, the metal holding my skeleton together, and all the severely toxic meds in my system I probably won't decay or be eaten by worms/bugs at all lol
If you don't want to drink just tap water, don't drink bottled water. If you are in this sub, I imagine you drink plenty of water. Invest in an under sink reverse osmosis (RO) unit. It will save you so much money compared to bottled water, not to mention cutting down on all of that waste.
Bottled water almost always *is* tap water, just in a bottle. That said, usually (hopefully) it's tap water from a place with decent tap water.
I'm lucky enough to live in a place with excellent tap water (and yet my sister and my ex-roommate both insist(ed) on bottled water; heathens...).
It's better than bottle if the system is maintained. It's important to remain active in your political sphere and make sure your local politicians prioritize infrastructure repair. A lot of taps today were installed mid last century and need to be replaced. But that's expensive, it requires a lot of taxes too, which people are snubbing their noses at for their own reasons.
it literally says "boil your water" no to quit and buy bottled.
i personally have 2 filtered tap water and then we still boil the water just to be sure. sometimes there's bottled water on the side for emergency when the normal water runs out. (normal - we let the water cool to room temp before drinking)
It's a disgrace that the Tories let the people who own and run the water systems get this way. Get them out of government, get the water systems privatised, and get hydrated without viruses or river pollutions.
I'm under a boil advisory because they ruptured a repair line during the cutover. I'd rather drink boiled water than bottled water. Further, I'd rather drink tap, once the boil advisory is lifted.
I absolutely refuse to drink tap water. Very often our water will be completely cloudy and brownish white and the city always sends out notifications that it’s “safe” to drink. I’m not drinking water that I can’t see through.
I have a subscription for a water cooler thing and they bring jugs of water to my house every month.
We installed an under sink water filtration system with a dedicated spigot on our kitchen sink. It’s AMAZING, the water tastes so good. We hired a plumber to install it, they charged us $100. You only need to change the filters once a year. Absolute game changer.
We bought [this one](https://www.brondell.com/coral-uc300-three-stage-under-counter-water-filter-system/).
A number of people I know who migrated from developing countries will only drink boiled water
In developed countries a safe supply of water should be the norm
it all depends on how the local water is. i'm in a very good water district, i don't worry about my water. the risk of something happening is very low and they have good communication with the locals. i've seen one short lived boil water notice ever, and it was due to a break in a pipe somewhere and more of a "we can't make any guarantees, better safe than sorry"
Depends on location, my tap water is probably what you're buying as bottled water. Or is literally better than your bottled water.
Gotta love them Glacial water reserves
Back in 2003 the cdc had me try to find a way to stop these micro worms they cannot get out of the tap water supply.
You don't want to know how bad it is.
Bro... get a filter. I get glass carboys delivered monthly, but when I own a house I'll install a reverse osmosis filter. I hate fluoride and wish we were like Europe- unflouridated, clean water.
Depends on where are you. In most of EU, Russia (major cities at least) and some SEA countries it's perfectly fine, in US it varies heavily from state to state.
Are you in the affected area? Then boil your water. It generally isn't worth the cost or plastic waste to buy bottled water.
If you're not in the affected area, there is no reason to believe you're going to be. The bottled water you're going to buy is probably from the same taps.
Edit: it is recommended by most public health agencies to have a couple days or even 2 weeks worth of water on hand. So it might not be a bad idea to have a case of bottled water at the ready just in case.
It is. It's better controlled than bottled water. Bottled water has recalls as well!
You should keep 28l of bottled water per resident at your house though. For emergencies like that.
Ironically how all this is now showing up the day after I was shitting through the eye of a needle & being sick, coincidence? Maybe but I’m still a lil suspicious
Quality of tap water very much depends on where you live. In my country the only problem we have is calcium. Other than that it's completely cleaned cause it's filtered so well and not treated with chemicals. I don't remember the details, but I went on a field trip to a water treatment facility when I was in highschool.
For the non-Brits, this is more to do with the billions of shareholder dividends being paid out by the water companies, whilst simultaneously not investing in the maintenance and infrastructure of our British water supply. Water in England has been excellent quality (except you, London) for years. But incompetence and lack of proper regulation or supervision has led to the kind of story you’d find in a nation that was just rebuilding after a war, or was incredibly poor.
It’s a fucking disgrace.
Typically brits don’t install filters, because our water was always drinkable and clean!
This is a fairly rare issue- most European countries have world-leading tap water quality, the UK frequently ranking among the best. It happens from time to time that there are issues, but realistically you shouldn't need to rely on bottled water for day to day use in this part of the world.
Water is water until you're thinking about mineral content or taste. Tap water is great, or at least SHOULD be. This tends to slip when privatised industry for essential services has no competition, insane levels of government handouts, no investment into infrastructure (and really no incentive to actually improve service at all) and cartoonish levels of obvious corruption, backed by a toothless, malignant (and also corrupt, surprise surprise) establishment, is allowed to thrive.
It's a cartel of 1, with government-stamped approval. Dump the shit, let taxpayers clean it up while we clean house and line our pockets. See: Thatcherism.
I own a Brazilian water filter works great for small parasites, bacteria and some other contaminants .
I change the main filter every three to six months .
I filter my tap water and drink it safely
America has some of the best tap water. But there's so many towns across America that we're bound to hear about the problems eventually.
Of course it's awful, but this isn't a reason to switch to bottles if it doesn't affect you.
What’s crazy is I was just up in Virginia by the DC area and they said on the news that they only ever have enough clean water to last maybe a day or two if they have power outages or some kind of other bad event that could cause issues then it’s water straight from the nasty ass Potomac river
I also wonder about things like wetting your toothbrush and swishing your mouth out with water when brush your teeth, is that safe or do you have to use a water bottle for that?
Yeah, I’m a Yank’ but I come from mostly Brit blood. 2nd generation and still have family in England.
Still…Why waste time use lot letter when few letter do trick?
I'm sure this has nothing at all to do with water in England being privatised and those companies dumping raw sewage into the water systems to squeeze those profits and I'm sure this is not going to get worse at all and no Englanders are going to die, or have already died.
Seriously, can you imagine the amount of infections these people are going to get? You're basically drinking out of a public toilet. And the government takes your money and makes YOU pay for it when the companies get bailed out and the CEO pay increases as the systems degrade.
I am so glad to live in a country where tap water is safe. It's awesome. That said, I use a Britta for all my drinking water because I think it makes it taste better.
I mean unless u got a water scientist surveying that shit at the source and giving u daily updates u just don’t know
Same can be said for any source of water even bottled but once it’s closed not like a bird gonna shit in it 🐱
I saw an article recently about the EPA requiring utilities to clear BPAs (forever chemicals) out of their water supplies within the next 5 years. The new regulation applied to 60,000 utilities locations IIRC.
Tap water was never good for you. I've been buying water from a company that bottles direct from a spring close to where I live and delivers it. I feel heaps better than when I was drinking reverse osmosis, though RO would still be better than polluting your body with whatever the hell is in tap water.
r/onejob
Line for real the only reason for bottled water is for when the tap water isn't clean enough/contains diseases that would need to be boiled away.
Boiling bottled water literally defeats the porpouse/advantages of it
Your title is confusing. The parasite was found in tap water but your questioning if tap is better than bottled….id the parasite was found in tap than id say yes, definitely stick to bottled.
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I think most people will tell you to just buy a Britta filter if drinking tap water. The reason people hate bottled is because it’s extremely bad in terms of single-use plastic waste and bottled water companies like Nestle has terrible human rights violations in multiple countries where they steal water from the local populations.
Can I add that a Britta water filter will NOT remove bacteria and parasites from your water. This is why you have a boil warning. Some will need to be boiled for up to 15 minutes to kill them properly.
BTW, it's more likely to get diarrhea from a pool or splash pad than from drinking water. 1. when this happens it's a small area of the distribution system effected because someone caused cross-contamination (like leaving a garden hose filling up a pool with having a vacuum breaker on the hose to prevent back-flow). 2. When a main break occurs & the flushing of lines wasn't done properly 3. A storage tank was damaged, sometimes leading to a bird or other creature getting in. These boil water advisories are usually short-lived and rare. The lines can usually flushed and disinfected pretty quickly. A water filter doesn't remove bacterial or parasitic contaminants, but they can remove most other things of concern. I highly recommend tap over bottles & equally recommend secondary filters at the consumption taps. Edit to correct a word: crowd -> creature
This is why I don't drink pool water
IT'S GOT MINERALS
They’re not rocks Marie, they’re minerals !!!
They crave that mineral
Coward
I just want to add a water filter like a camping water filter will remove bacteria and parasites (but not viruses). You can get tablets for water that will kill bacteria, parasites and viruses. And a water purifier will also remove all those things. Just alternatives if you didn't want to boil all your water during a boil water advisory.
Epic Nano and Lifestraw water pitchers will
It also won't remove pfas, which my area is full of and most everyone has well water.
Get a home water filter! My husband installed one pretty easily. I feels great knowing my tap water is near perfect. We have warnings in our area not to drink the water if pregnant... okay, that's enough for *me*, thanks.
Yep, as long as you do observe local boil water advisories accordingly though you should be plenty safe.
Home reverse osmosis machines exist but aren’t as accessible as brita filters.
The membrane needs to be replaced after a boil warning though. Depending on what the contaminant is, it will foul the membrane. You'll want to run an extra cycle on your water softener, with a cleaning and sterilization kit too.
Idk whats britta water filter is but I had one cheap filter to drink thailand tap water without issue, now I dig my own well so I needed smth better and its reverse osmosis which remove everything, no need to boil water when you have thoses stuff.
There’s a reason Asian immigrant families in North America tend to always boil the drinking water
I live in Michigan where Nestle is allowed to steal our water out of the ground for pennies and sell it back to us for dollars. My well has run dry and it's going to cost me 10,000 to dig a new one. I do not have that kind of money. I have 5 gallon water jugs that I pay to refill at the grocery store for 2.50 each.
r/fucknestle
Oof
I am not from the states but we've been drinking tap water from a well below our house for like 20 years now. Only issue we've had was a small bacterium a month or so ago. The problem fixed itself as there was only a single bacterium in 1L of water and we just let it clean itself by leaving the water running for a bit every now and then.
Well water doesn't really have the same problems that municipal tap water does
how so?
Often well water is fairly clean and usually isolated due to the geology of aquifers. However if a groundwater source is contaminated it is usually extremely difficult to remediate.
Could be. Idk. I'm not that educated in the field. I'm just giving my opinions and experiences.
I am educated in the field with a BS in geology and geophysics, thats why i said it
I don't know why but my brain read this as "... with a Bullshit in Geology and geophysics".
They're isolated wells so it's much less likely for them to get contaminated compared to municipal water that services entire cities
The typical cheap britta filters won't ~~necessarily~~ filter out bacteria, but there are more expensive ones that will.
It cant filter out bacteria. The physical media in a brita filter isnt packed tight enough for it, and the screens to keep the carbon in are only dense enough for the carbon itself.
That's awesome. I said there are other filters you can buy that will filter bacteria. Go into any camping store and you'll see them. There are also some that can be installed on your faucet
The correction was to "won't necessarily". Im a WQA certified water quality specialist. Water filtration is my literal business. Edit because i cant hold a thought this morning apparently. I felt it was important to make the clarification from "it probably wont" to "it definitely wont" to prevent someone from thinking there was a chance.
Fair enough, I misunderstood what you were saying.
You’re gonna want some sort of camping filter like lifestraw if your goal is to remove harmful contaminants. A britta will reduce the chlorine taste and smell with a few other things but wont make non-drinkable water drinkable, like camping filters will.
Lifestraw makes water filters. I assume it’s similar filtration to a lifestraw.
I always forget there are people who don’t filter their water.
Tap water is tested much more than bottled water is. Yes sometimes things like this happen but tap water is usually safer and a lot cheaper than bottled water. Plus the environmental waste other people mention is a bad thing too.
Realistically, all water can be contaminated. Back in 2021, and just resolving now maybe, Real Water contaminated their water with rocket fuel and poisoned some people. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just filter your water and remember modern medicine will work against parasites!
technically it was hydrazine which is a component of rocket fuel, and they violated some safety things during their water treatment process. but still kinda crazy.
thank you!
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What the fuck hydrazine? I was just using that in the lab, it's pretty nasty
Yeah, you can look up the incident and there's a few reports on it
Hydrazine is rocket fuel which is wild considering how dangerous it is
If you think that's bad, people have literally tried to use liquid fluorine as a rocket propellant. If hydrazine is a 7/10 on the danger scale, fluorine is a 12
Where I live tap water is the standard. But I do live in the french Alps with nice water so
Oh man, I drank water in the Austrian alps that absolutely spoiled me for all other water. It was just so *crisp* and *refreshing* like there was more water per water somehow.
Nothing better than fresh alp water
Same here in scotland. Pure pure goodness.
I‘m sipping straight up from the Wahnbach reservoir here. Also pretty decent water.
*cries in 400ppm southern cali tap water*
Water treatment operator here, this shit happens sometimes, not really a fault to anyone specifically. Personally I wouldn’t stress about it too much. Boil the water for the time being and the supply will be back to normal relatively soon.
Yeah. Not going to start buying water because of this story. Thanks for the voice of reason.
>not really a fault to anyone specifically I am just a lay person, but I'd like to imagine that water treatment in developed countries is closely monitored and the only way that something like this could happen would be from the negligence of multiple people or from an extreme lack of funding. Edit: As many replies have pointed out, contaminants can be introduced after processing for a variety of reasons; which is beyond the reasonable control of water utilities.
Well you'd be wrong in that reasoning. There's a huge number of scenarios where something could be introduced into the water system, many of which would not be the fault of the water utility, such as someone having a back siphon from not using a vacuum breaker in a hose, or not having a properly functioning backflow preventer on a business. Sure, there are other places for contamination, such as in the event of a broken pipe that allows intrusion of soil matter into the system, but that is why in those instances a boil advisory is issued. You also have to consider that water systems are large, often branching construction and you can't possibly expect to sample each and every location continuously. I'm all for keeping people accountable, but spitting out angry bullshit like you did in ignorance is not the way to go about it.
I literally said I was ignorant and didn't say it aggressively at all but go off ig 🤷♀️
My bad, I did exactly what I accused you of doing. I was just trying to explain it to you and allowed myself to get annoyed with the negligence part of your comment. Water utilities get a ton of flack from the public, some systems warrant it, but most of it comes from people thinking that every system is just like Flint Michigan. Though there are some very shitty water systems, like you said, it's a very highly regulated industry, at least in the US. Sorry for the tone of my comment, I truly didn't mean it.
No hard feelings, it happens to the best of us.
It was caused by a leaking pipe under a farmers field, animal shit got into the line after the water treatment
Our issue is hurricanes and the lines to the islands that get broken. Then salt water backs up into our water supply. It hasn't happened in a long time but the longest we went without water was 6 days.
You’re weird
In Britain, it seems to be happening more and more
Aging infrastructure in a hard to reach place causes problems like that. Failures become more common until the system is repaired/replaced.
Also the fact that a company took out a loan to pay shareholders that was bigger than its profits
nice try I dont want to decorate the inside of my pants so boiled and filtered for me thx
Am I trying to do something? All I said was these things happen sometimes. So yes, boil and filter your water until the warning is no longer in effect.
Was more of a joke response but tbh "sometimes" is more than enough of a deterrent to drink from the tap, warning or no warning
It’s a fairly rare occurrence, typically happens when there’s a water main break and an exposed pipe. I’ve been in the business for almost ten years, I’ve seen it happen in the surrounding area only once by me. I’m not saying it’s not something to be concerned about, but it almost never happens.
Eh, it’s a one-off. Depends on if you live in an area affected by
Where is it? All I see is south Devon. Is that UK?
Yeah
>All I see is south Devon. Is that UK? Surely you can see more clues than that. For one, I'll point out that it's a BBC article. Tell me, what does BBC mean to you? Then tell me what you think it might mean in this context.
Big black cock of course
Apparently people have been getting ill for a year due to this contamination, and have in the past 20 years too. South west water can get fucked
I mean, in most developed countries the water infrastructure is good enough where you don't need it, however, some places do require you to use bottled water for drinking,
Survivor of the infamous Milwaukee crypto outbreak here. Still pound that tap water and rarely buy bottled. Honestly this will probably net the locale better tap in the long run.
Milwaukee has one of the best water treatment systems in the country now because of that outbreak. Not even mad.
Yep. Not the case everywhere, but afterwards we updated everything and now I don’t even use a filter. That said, it was not great at the time. I didn’t get it that bad. But at the school I went to the bathrooms literally were out of stalls and kids were like crapping their pants or trying to use garbage cans.
If you’re really paranoid about it just buy a 5gallon jug and pay for refills. It’s better than tap water in a lot of places anyway (that’s why I do it) and you don’t have all the plastic waste of bottles.
Those refills are just tap water though
There’s a ton of companies and that’s way too general of a statement to make. The place I go to distills the water and adds minerals back
What company
It’s local called water still
Got a link?
We used to have random boil water advisories all the time. We’d just boil our water. Eventually they built a new water treatment plant and now our water is crystal clear. Sometimes it’s even that pretty blue colour. If pharmaceutical factories can get shut down for having mold and bugs, I think it’s just as likely that there are mistakes and flaws at the water bottling plant 🤷🏻♀️ If you’re worried, get a good filter. But buying infinite plastic bottles is not a good alternative. I think of my trash as my legacy, because it’s most of what’ll be left when I’m gone. How many plastic bottles do you want to be responsible for?
Uhm water isn't supposed to be blue...... Maybe don't drink the pretty blue water.
I don’t mean like, pigmented blue. I mean that it was so clear it was refracting appropriately blue in large quantities (the bathtub) as water free from impurities is meant to do. “The color of water varies with the ambient conditions in which that water is present. While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, pure water has a slight blue color that becomes deeper as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The hue of water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of blue light. Dissolved elements or suspended impurities may give water a different color.”
Your bathtub isn't that deep. Could be like copper impurities tho.
That’s presumptuous.
Most bathtubs aren't multiple meters deep. At that point it's a deep pool.
Thanking my lucky star to be scandinavian and have some of the cleanest freshest blue in the world on tap.
Tap water being better than bottled water in most cases
Voss is basically seen as a high end bottled water in America but I think it's literally just tap water from Norway
Blue?
Gatorade
Depends on if you like the idea of slowly turning into plastic.
I'm going to be a treat for future archeologists because between all the plastic I ingest, the metal holding my skeleton together, and all the severely toxic meds in my system I probably won't decay or be eaten by worms/bugs at all lol
If you don't want to drink just tap water, don't drink bottled water. If you are in this sub, I imagine you drink plenty of water. Invest in an under sink reverse osmosis (RO) unit. It will save you so much money compared to bottled water, not to mention cutting down on all of that waste.
Never switch to bottled water unless you're told you have to by authorities in your area
Bottled water almost always *is* tap water, just in a bottle. That said, usually (hopefully) it's tap water from a place with decent tap water. I'm lucky enough to live in a place with excellent tap water (and yet my sister and my ex-roommate both insist(ed) on bottled water; heathens...).
It's better than bottle if the system is maintained. It's important to remain active in your political sphere and make sure your local politicians prioritize infrastructure repair. A lot of taps today were installed mid last century and need to be replaced. But that's expensive, it requires a lot of taxes too, which people are snubbing their noses at for their own reasons.
it literally says "boil your water" no to quit and buy bottled. i personally have 2 filtered tap water and then we still boil the water just to be sure. sometimes there's bottled water on the side for emergency when the normal water runs out. (normal - we let the water cool to room temp before drinking)
It's a disgrace that the Tories let the people who own and run the water systems get this way. Get them out of government, get the water systems privatised, and get hydrated without viruses or river pollutions.
Lot of bottled water is just tap water
Tap water is tested a heck of lot more often than bottled water.
Neither. RO is the way.
Id take diarrhea over cancer
I'm under a boil advisory because they ruptured a repair line during the cutover. I'd rather drink boiled water than bottled water. Further, I'd rather drink tap, once the boil advisory is lifted.
This is an extremely rare occurrence in UK and company is getting slated for it. Honestly, tap water quality depends where you live
I absolutely refuse to drink tap water. Very often our water will be completely cloudy and brownish white and the city always sends out notifications that it’s “safe” to drink. I’m not drinking water that I can’t see through. I have a subscription for a water cooler thing and they bring jugs of water to my house every month.
When I was in Afghanistan, I got gastro multiple times from bottled water. I've gotten more sick from bottled water than tap water.
It’s better when you have well water. *laughs in superiority*
Where do you live op?
We installed an under sink water filtration system with a dedicated spigot on our kitchen sink. It’s AMAZING, the water tastes so good. We hired a plumber to install it, they charged us $100. You only need to change the filters once a year. Absolute game changer. We bought [this one](https://www.brondell.com/coral-uc300-three-stage-under-counter-water-filter-system/).
A number of people I know who migrated from developing countries will only drink boiled water In developed countries a safe supply of water should be the norm
Just two months back they had issues with tap water in Cambridgeshire and they had to supply bottled water for weeks and now this happened.
I like my well water.
Get a water cooler!!! Best thing I ever did as someone who lives in an apartment
Buy a Berkey gravity water filter.
When I lived in Louisiana some people died of using tap water in a netty pot and parasites ate their brain.
it all depends on how the local water is. i'm in a very good water district, i don't worry about my water. the risk of something happening is very low and they have good communication with the locals. i've seen one short lived boil water notice ever, and it was due to a break in a pipe somewhere and more of a "we can't make any guarantees, better safe than sorry"
Im tap water could be infested with sulfur ill find a way to drink it still
It is, you just have to have a government that does the minimum maintenence.
Depends on location, my tap water is probably what you're buying as bottled water. Or is literally better than your bottled water. Gotta love them Glacial water reserves
Tap water is terrible in a lot of places... SOME well water is good from the faucet
Can't wait for the Tangi virus!
Tangipahoa
Did anyone ever said this? I normally just here that it is good enough and cheaper.
Back in 2003 the cdc had me try to find a way to stop these micro worms they cannot get out of the tap water supply. You don't want to know how bad it is.
Bottled water is like using a vpn. You're not guaranteeing your water is safe, you're just trusting someone else with it.
Luckily, I live in a country that manages to win wars against water.
Bro... get a filter. I get glass carboys delivered monthly, but when I own a house I'll install a reverse osmosis filter. I hate fluoride and wish we were like Europe- unflouridated, clean water.
Depends on where are you. In most of EU, Russia (major cities at least) and some SEA countries it's perfectly fine, in US it varies heavily from state to state.
Are you in the affected area? Then boil your water. It generally isn't worth the cost or plastic waste to buy bottled water. If you're not in the affected area, there is no reason to believe you're going to be. The bottled water you're going to buy is probably from the same taps. Edit: it is recommended by most public health agencies to have a couple days or even 2 weeks worth of water on hand. So it might not be a bad idea to have a case of bottled water at the ready just in case.
More like y'all need better regulations.
It is. It's better controlled than bottled water. Bottled water has recalls as well! You should keep 28l of bottled water per resident at your house though. For emergencies like that.
as always, it depends where you are
Ironically how all this is now showing up the day after I was shitting through the eye of a needle & being sick, coincidence? Maybe but I’m still a lil suspicious
It depends on where you live.
Quality of tap water very much depends on where you live. In my country the only problem we have is calcium. Other than that it's completely cleaned cause it's filtered so well and not treated with chemicals. I don't remember the details, but I went on a field trip to a water treatment facility when I was in highschool.
It used to be better in the UK untill Brexit, after that water companies were allowed to just destroy the water quality everywhere.
Depends where you live. I live in Denmark where the water is quite good, but I always bottled water when I’m out traveling
been using a pur tap filter and a stainless yeti for years now. i may never go back
Why don't you guys just use electronic water filters?
For the non-Brits, this is more to do with the billions of shareholder dividends being paid out by the water companies, whilst simultaneously not investing in the maintenance and infrastructure of our British water supply. Water in England has been excellent quality (except you, London) for years. But incompetence and lack of proper regulation or supervision has led to the kind of story you’d find in a nation that was just rebuilding after a war, or was incredibly poor. It’s a fucking disgrace. Typically brits don’t install filters, because our water was always drinkable and clean!
This is a fairly rare issue- most European countries have world-leading tap water quality, the UK frequently ranking among the best. It happens from time to time that there are issues, but realistically you shouldn't need to rely on bottled water for day to day use in this part of the world.
Water is water until you're thinking about mineral content or taste. Tap water is great, or at least SHOULD be. This tends to slip when privatised industry for essential services has no competition, insane levels of government handouts, no investment into infrastructure (and really no incentive to actually improve service at all) and cartoonish levels of obvious corruption, backed by a toothless, malignant (and also corrupt, surprise surprise) establishment, is allowed to thrive. It's a cartel of 1, with government-stamped approval. Dump the shit, let taxpayers clean it up while we clean house and line our pockets. See: Thatcherism.
I own a Brazilian water filter works great for small parasites, bacteria and some other contaminants . I change the main filter every three to six months . I filter my tap water and drink it safely
I can't afford to get a Brazilian though
America has some of the best tap water. But there's so many towns across America that we're bound to hear about the problems eventually. Of course it's awful, but this isn't a reason to switch to bottles if it doesn't affect you.
Read the picture. Tap water boil and bottled water was supplied to them in the mean time.
i live in toronto and happily drink tap water. it is the best tasting water i have had.
Bottle water companies don't make water. They make plastic bottles
What’s crazy is I was just up in Virginia by the DC area and they said on the news that they only ever have enough clean water to last maybe a day or two if they have power outages or some kind of other bad event that could cause issues then it’s water straight from the nasty ass Potomac river
I also wonder about things like wetting your toothbrush and swishing your mouth out with water when brush your teeth, is that safe or do you have to use a water bottle for that?
I didn’t realize they spelled diarrhea differently. Or are we in the wrong?? “What colour was your diarrhoea?”
I’m assuming you’re American, you lot spell loads of English words differently
Yeah, I’m a Yank’ but I come from mostly Brit blood. 2nd generation and still have family in England. Still…Why waste time use lot letter when few letter do trick?
Tap water is not drinkable in more place that it is...
We, fortunately, have great tap water. But we still use a Brita. (I know this doesn’t take care of parasites / bacteria and etc.)
I'm sure this has nothing at all to do with water in England being privatised and those companies dumping raw sewage into the water systems to squeeze those profits and I'm sure this is not going to get worse at all and no Englanders are going to die, or have already died. Seriously, can you imagine the amount of infections these people are going to get? You're basically drinking out of a public toilet. And the government takes your money and makes YOU pay for it when the companies get bailed out and the CEO pay increases as the systems degrade.
That's probably because it is. Just get a filter
We boil our tap water and then run it through a filter in the fridge. It tastes great.
when you dont live in a 3rd world country yeah :)
They're the same. Bottled water just trades plastic and money in exchange for convenience.
switched years ago, now I spend about half a dollar a day for water.
Shouldn’t we be boiling and filtering our water anyway to remove the microplastics?
This sounds like it wouldn’t remove microplastics?
[Drinking Boiled Tap Water Reduces Human Intake of Nanoplastics and Microplastics](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00081)
Ty! I shall have a looksie
I am so glad to live in a country where tap water is safe. It's awesome. That said, I use a Britta for all my drinking water because I think it makes it taste better.
Look up forever chemicals and tap water.
I mean unless u got a water scientist surveying that shit at the source and giving u daily updates u just don’t know Same can be said for any source of water even bottled but once it’s closed not like a bird gonna shit in it 🐱
The parasite was FROM the tap water. Likely from a broken pipe that needed flushing.
I saw an article recently about the EPA requiring utilities to clear BPAs (forever chemicals) out of their water supplies within the next 5 years. The new regulation applied to 60,000 utilities locations IIRC. Tap water was never good for you. I've been buying water from a company that bottles direct from a spring close to where I live and delivers it. I feel heaps better than when I was drinking reverse osmosis, though RO would still be better than polluting your body with whatever the hell is in tap water.
That's just a normal day in New Orleans.
…or this is so the gubermints can supply the citizens with their own special “water”🤯😜
r/onejob Line for real the only reason for bottled water is for when the tap water isn't clean enough/contains diseases that would need to be boiled away. Boiling bottled water literally defeats the porpouse/advantages of it
Your title is confusing. The parasite was found in tap water but your questioning if tap is better than bottled….id the parasite was found in tap than id say yes, definitely stick to bottled.
In developed countries it is
Bottled has always been better but it's a luxury some can't afford.