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

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My OH will not drink tap water and it drives me insane. He just drove 20 minutes home at 10pm because he left half a bottle of water on the side at home and no shops are open and in his words ‘I take my water seriously’

I think the reason it drives me insane is because the reason he won’t drink it is because of the hormones etc in it but yet he has spent his whole life being obese. He goes through intense phases of working out and eating really well and loses weight but ultimately he is still obese and thinks that the one time he got to 17st is some sort of achievement that he needs to tell me about allllllll the time. He drives without a seatbelt on, he took pretty hard drugs as a young man and has always drunk alcohol (although he barely does these things now) I think another reason is that he constantly watches strong men / sports personalities talking about their workouts and nutrition and he insists on telling me about things that I have no interest in and have told him as much - after many years of politely saying ‘ooh interesting’ whilst secretly thinking ‘I bet you weren’t thinking about the processed meats giving you cancer when you ate your McDonalds wrap for breakfast 😡’ or ‘I’m 9 years older than you and manage to get more done in any given day than you do despite the fact that I’m not interested in an ice bath’ I know there’s no link to obesity from tap water but Jesus Christ something has to kill you! I doubt it will be the rusty pipes or hormones in the water! He had the audacity to ask me if I felt comfortable eating a sweetie the other day (not fat shaming me, I’m not fat, more that he wanted to make the point that there were no ingredients on the wrapper, pretty sure there were no ingredients on the sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese that he ate last night either 🤪)

I also know lots of you are going to tell me to get a grip and let him live as he pleases but if you had to listen to him go on and on about it whilst he’s sat there sweating and needing 400 bowel movements a day you would find it a hard pill to swallow.

Do you drink tap water? AIBU to think that in an emergency a bit of tap water isn’t going to kill you!

Well ours is very noticeable

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.

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 😉

Bless your heart 💖

True, I’d forgotten about Camelford.

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.

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.

I agree.

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.