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You don't have to drink the water where you live. Where I L live everyone drinks bottled water.

Yes but you still use tap water for cooking I presume. And it's used for agriculture. So you'd still end up ingesting PFAS if the water supply is contaminated, since it does not break down with heat.

I personally use bottled water for cooking. Agriculture mostly doesn't happen where my house is so is unrelated to the house price.

lol like there isn't PFAS in the plastic that houses that bottled water. esp. if it sat in the sun for a while, since plastics don't biodegrade they photodegrade.

Doesn't mean there are no PFAs in the bottled water.

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/bottled-water/pfas-in...

No, true, but that's separate to the issue of PFAS in my drinking water making my house worthless. Presumably if there are PFAS is bottled water then everyone's water is contaminated as I'm not aware of anywhere people don't drink bottled water.

If that's a result of some organization contaminating the local water supply, then I'd call it "secondary damage" and vote billing said org for it.

Otherwise, you either live in an unusual location that makes any kind of water-related infrastructure projects very expensive - like, idk., a small settlement at a summit of a mountain, or in the middle of a desert - or something is very much broken about that place.

Do you brush your teeth with bottled water? Do your kids?

Yes. In plenty of places people use bottled water even to brush their teeth.

bro I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but your answers make it seem like you're living in a contaminated hellhole and terrified of contact with the local water

it's not a good defense for indiscriminate contamination of water, if that's what you're trying for

I'm not defending anything. Just saying that drinkable tap water doesn't exist in many countries, bro. And many people don't even have taps.

> bottled water

You do understand that that’s worse for you, right?

You're suggesting that bottled water is worse for me than non-drinking water from the tap? Billions of people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. You're lucky if you do.

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