[DESTROYA]

Living in MA we have some of the best water resources in the country but I still generally drink bottled water but have no issues drinking it from tap.

 

[MetalAlien]

That shit wasn't even taken seriously in the circles I traveled until maybe mid to late 90s.

 

[ManofTwo]

Ass water is a thing?

 

[brap]

of course. how much of a pussy do you need to be to filter fucking water? just drink it and grow up.

 

[CloudNull]

I once talked to an engineer from a waste processing facility. Incredible tech that they use there but it's disgusting what they considered healthy. He told me what the recycled water was allowed to be used for and I never trusted water again.

 

[King of Foxes]

I once talked to an engineer from a waste processing facility. Incredible tech that they use there but it's disgusting what they considered healthy. He told me what the recycled water was allowed to be used for and I never trusted water again.

The human body is 60% water

 

[Bunta]

I live in a safe to drink territory so no, no filter used.
I've considered getting one for the coffee maker and water cooker though, limescale builds up very fast.

 

[and 3 others]

Here's my innocuous water pitcher.

Reverse osmosis
teehee

 

[Kadayi]

It could be worse mind. Londoners are drinking their own recycled piss.

Yeah, London tap water is gnarly. Made the mistake of having a glass of that after a night out in my youth and it was fucking awful. Definitely either Filter that or at the very least boil it. Thankfully the water around where I am is safe for drinking from the tap in a pinch, though I use the filter jug to keep the limescale down.

 

[and 3 others]

at the very least boil it.

Seriously that bad?

 

[Kadayi]

Seriously that bad?

London water is largely recycled as Stilton said. You're basically drinking something that likely passed through thousands of bladders time and time again. Filtering will get rid of certain things, however: -

How to protect your skin, hair and home from London's hard water

This is why your daily shower could be the reason for your dry skin

www.standard.co.uk

The oestrogen hormone is found in the contraceptive pill and when excreted makes its way into our sewage. Whilst the treatment process of raw water is effective in filtering out most harsh chemicals and other harmful substances, it's significantly more difficult for oestrogen to be broken down, meaning traces of it end up in our drinking water.

As well as affecting wildlife, there are concerns the presence of oestrogen in our tap water could have an effect on humans. Increased oestrogen could reduce sperm count in men, and we already know that fertility rates in humans are diminishing over time. One study by the Medical Research Council found that Scottish men born since 1970 are 25 per cent less fertile than those born 20 years earlier. For women, too much oestrogen is linked to conditions including poly-cystic ovaries.

 

[King of Foxes]

Here's my innocuous water pitcher.

teehee

I thought it said gag fag like some weird motivation message

 

[miona's shoulder monkey]

For some reason my city has the best tap water in the country, which is generally good quality, but despite that whenever I'm somewhere else it definitely taste much worse. I've been spoiled.

Sounds like a pain buying/carrying/filtering water.

 

[prag16]

Especially in Michigan.

 

[Melon]

I love drinking water that causes a +16 RAD/SEC to appear at the top of my vision.

 

[Soodanim]

I live in Britain where the tap water is perfectly safe to drink.

Infact the chalk hills where I live, that the water filters through, makes the tap water here better than most mineral water.

Same as this. Water round here is notoriously chalky, to a detriment in some ways. But I will happily drink the tap water all day.

London water is largely recycled as Stilton said. You're basically drinking something that likely passed through thousands of bladders time and time again. Filtering will get rid of certain things, however: -

How to protect your skin, hair and home from London's hard water

This is why your daily shower could be the reason for your dry skin

www.standard.co.uk

So the water isn't making frogs gay, it's making men infertile. Our water is handled by South East Water, fingers crossed it's okay. Otherwise I'm never having kids.

 

[Kadayi]

So the water isn't making frogs gay, it's making men infertile. Our water is handled by South East Water, fingers crossed it's okay. Otherwise I'm never having kids.

As long as you're not in London you should be ok, something like a water filter or Brita Jug isn't a bad idea for dealing with the Chalkiness.

 

[Soodanim]

As long as you're not in London you should be ok, something like a water filter or Brita Jug isn't a bad idea for dealing with the Chalkiness.

We have a water softener that supplies the whole house, and the kitchen tap has a third, drinking tap that bypasses the softener but goes through a dedicated filter. But I happily drink unfiltered if I'm at someone else's house, it tastes just fine to me.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Our tap tastes the same as all the various bottled water I've ever tried, so I don't see the need to filter.

 

[zebraStraw]

Nope. Unfiltered tastes weird. Probably the softener.

 

[synchronicity]

Clean water is vital to health. If you don't have a filter that removes fluoride, you can also add a few drops of luogl's iodine to counteract the abundance (and toxic effects) of having so much of that chemical in our water.

 

[WesternBlood]

My state is notorious for hard water, what with all the minerals that get carried via canals into our reservoirs. The water calcifies everything it touches.

Reverse Osmosis only, when I can control it.

 

[Zefah]

Old thread, I know, but I saw this YouTube video a while back and it sent my down a deep and very disheartening/depressing rabbit hole.



Currently researching a really good tap water filtration system, but man, it's tough to get good reliable information in this area.

 

[lock2k]

Is there anything worse than room temperature water!? Shit needs to be almost freezing.

This. All year.

 

[Night Sky]

Always. Filter the fish piss, cocaine and morning after pills out of the water

 

[teezzy]

Yes

 

[Dr. Farnsgoth]

London water is largely recycled as Stilton said. You're basically drinking something that likely passed through thousands of bladders time and time again. Filtering will get rid of certain things, however: -

How to protect your skin, hair and home from London's hard water

This is why your daily shower could be the reason for your dry skin

www.standard.co.uk

Does a basic Brita filter remove that though?

 

[Arkam]

I drink from my bathroom tap every night taking my "night" pills. Taste fine to me and is wet. Probably wouldn't serve it as a dinner beverage to guests but works great as basic hydration and pill lubrication.

 

[Dacon]

I don't drink tap water, and in the most desperate situations it has to be boiled first.

 

[Kadayi]

Does a basic Brita filter remove that though?

I can't vouch for the impact it would have on London Water as I don't live there (when I worked there I commuted in) but certainly, the water tastes way better than straight from the tap where I live, when filtered through a Brita jug and I get much less limescale in the Kettle as a result. I would recommend them.