To think you can drink tap water in a 1st world country!

I have a natural spring just down the road from me so that's my backup if my tap water gets contaminated (which has happened before, last time it was because they found a dead bird in the water tower). Nearly every time I drive back from work there's a car parked at the spring, filling up water cannisters, so some people must drink the spring water day to day instead of tap.

I agree.

That's why I drink tap water but have an emergency supply of bottled water..covering all the bases in case there are supply issues/contamination (smug).
I think some people in America have a reason to be suspicious/untrusting. There were some terrible scandals ( to be fair elsewhere too with PFA contamination). So I can sort of understand why people turn to conspiracy theories about water contamination. It just then gets nutty quite quickly. And Trump and RFK.and their crazy theories are not the solution.

But that was an incident. Bottled water has been recalled numerous times for incidents of contamination.

No one-offs give a general basis for objecting to either way of getting drinking water.

The easily proven fact is that tap water is generally less contaminated and more highly monitored and controlled than hugely expensive and wasteful bottled water. And there’s no need to filter or treat tap water - unless a warning’s given, which is very rare. And would again just be an isolated incident of contamination.

True, I’d forgotten about Camelford.

Bless your heart 💖

He does…but this poster is clearly so deep into conspiracies that she (or he?) has failed to notice.

It’s a mental illness though, so we should probably #bekind 😉

If he's that worried. Can you not invest in a proper water distiller? They are pricey but obviously will be cheaper in the long run and better for the environment. I got one when I moved to London and found the tap water absolutely vile. It was actually horrifying seeing the filter everytime it I used it as it was full of a thick grey sludge that absolutely stank.

Well ours is very noticeable

Most people I know use a jug filter at least

The taste of chlorine is very strong and ruins any drink

I never used to notice the taste till i moved to a different area and found it tastes odd when I moved back. Now I'm back to thinking it's how water should taste. I think it's like bitter - you need to power through to the point where you like it (or also use a filter).

Streams - no. Even in Norway, I guess. Our science teacher told us of drinking from a stream and then finding a dead sheep. We laughed. she used to joke, deadpan. But I've been trekking around on field trips with OU, and believe me, there is always a dead sheep. I did drink some water at Malham Cove where it came out from underground - it had a metallic taste. Idiot me had forgotten the lead mines upstream. Take your own water bottle.

Thank you for realising what I meant 😅

Lead in pipes is less of a problem than you would think because it oxidises.veru fast and becomes non reactive. So obviously you want them to use different materials now but old lead pipes aren't.a huge health risk. What is very dangerous, and this happened in Flint US,.is when tap water flowing through old lead pipes becomes contaminated so it becomes corrosive. In Flint the water was corrosive enough to dissolve the lead into the water. Which people then drank. Horrific..but yeah, that was also a complete failure of regulation and a complete lack of joined up thinking. The short explanation for Flint was "lead pipes" but the real story is so much worse.

Hormones in water is a complicated one. There is some panic about oestrogen in the water supply eg streams and rivers (90% of it comes from agriculture btw so its not actually the pull at fault). But i would be more worried about the chemicals in plastic in the bottled water which are thought to affect.how the body processes testosterone etc. I dont worry about it,.because there are only so many things you can worry about. But its not logical to favour bottled water over tap water because of hormones.

The taste is one thing. A matter of ummm taste! But it won't hurt you at all and the dissolved minerals are actually beneficial. I think people saw your post and thought you meant it was unhealthy rather than healthy but an acquired taste of you have sensitive tastebuds.

Well that tells me it's not my ex then @Drowninginconfusion !
He's untrainable. So is yours. The world would be better if we could send these men to a school type place where they are taught to be helpful equal partners in a relationship. It would solve most of the issues people post about in here. A bit like military service but house training!

Oh lovely, of course you make his life easier. You are such a nice person, that comes through in your posts. You make everything happen so he can do his bottled water thing and other stuff. He's living in your house. Has he ever lived in his own place or did he go straight from his mammy to you, possibly via a wife? Stand up for yourself. You deserve better than a man child to parent by stealth.

This smacks of something bigger than just water and breaking the law (he doesn't get to choose not to wear a seatbelt after all) and if you are @Drowninginconfusion then he is drowning in a certain Egyptian river!

It is endlessly infuriating to be with someone who cannot see their own hypocrisy, even more so when they are evangelical about the bits of pieces of science they have picked up through confirmation bias.

Sounds like the time for confronting him may well be past and now it needs to be about you deciding what is right for you and what you want to do. I wish you luck and send you sympathy in the meantime.

Do you remember Camelford, Cornwall? 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate tipped into the wrong tank by a relief driver in 1988. Only discovered after many people were very ill.
Accidents happen, sometimes to the water supply. Not frequently thankfully.
Then again, accidents and sometimes malicious interference happen to bottles and jars of stuff too. Life is a risky.

Sorry…I’ve read on and I see it’s complicated. I hope you’ll be able to separate as you’d likely both be happier in the long run.

Tap water is fine but it sounds as though you don’t really like your partner. I don’t blame you, I don’t think I would like him either. Why are you in a relationship with him though?

Regardless of the tap water issue, "What lovely company you keep" is a silly argument.

Do you like dogs or follow a vegetarian diet? So did Hitler.
Do you support the Palestinians in the Gaza war? So do the murdering rapists of October 2023.
Or do you support the Israelis? So do Smotrich and Ben Gvir, the ultra-right wing Israelis who want a complete takeover of Gaza and regard Gazans as animals.
Do you support more trans rights? So do the TRAs who send death and rape threats to gender realists.
Or do you support gender realists? So do Trump and the US anti-abortion faction.

Would it make sense to point out the lovely company you keep?

It is possible to agree with someone on one issue but not on other issues, you know.