I’ve always been under the childlike impression that my tap water is clean clean, but when thinking about it today I realised that it’s unlikely that tap water is completely sterile, certainly not by the time it reaches my house through miles of pipes. So, just how unsterile can it be and still pass muster with the local government?
If we accept a certain number of rodent hairs or cockroach shells in each helping of our processed foods, I can only imagine what’s considered acceptable when it comes to tap water.
For reference, I’m in N. Ireland, which is, regrettably, the UK. But obviously the island of Ireland is where my water comes from. From this nightmarish swamp, to be precise.
Stay moist, hydrohomos.
I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.
Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.
That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.
That calcium isn’t absorbed by your gut though.
I had a family member who had a kidney stone start drinking their tap water a lot so they wouldn’t get another one. Their tap (well) water had so much calcium that they ended up getting another kidney stone from drinking too much water.
your body wont absorb calcium salts in the water though. you get it through your food, and some systemic disease can increase your blood calcium. its pseudoscience from alternative health community.
Well, you won’t absorb much calcium from milk either, so that checks out.