Ask HN: What water do you drink?
Do you buy bottled water from the store? Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use? Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?
I generally avoid bottled water (typically purchased if I must in larger containers over a gallon or 4 L) that is available at stores unless I'm sure the brand passes the one week after opening test; in that after a week taking a few cupfuls out of a say a 10 L container, letting fresh air in, the water retains a pleasant neutral odour, and not a pong from a much increased bacteria count.
In fact, the quality controls for tap water are more strict than for bottled water:
https://www.drinkwaterplatform.nl/fleswater-vs-kraanwater-wa... (in Dutch)
https://www-drinkwaterplatform-nl.translate.goog/fleswater-v... (Machine translated to English)
This is true in the US as well.
When I started buying in 1993, my treated municipal water sourced from the Potomac river had a chlorine taste that seemed more noticeable in the winter. I now use unfiltered tap for coffee, tea and cooking, and barely notice any chlorine taste.
When driving. But not for day-to-day.
> Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use?
Yes. Brita. I don't know which one. It attaches directly to the faucet.
> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?
Yes. United States. I'm currently in Alabama and drink unfiltered tap water as needed. I also still drink straight from the hose outside when it is hot.
No
> Do you filter tap water?
No
> What filter do you use?
N/A
> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)?
Yes (Australia)
> Something else?
I use unfiltered tap water to make soda water -- I drink quite a bit of that.
Actually, my fridge has a cold water thing, which has an inline filter built in. But I don’t choose to filter the water as such.
I don't buy bottled water unless I happen to be at some event or something where it's the only option, or I've traveled to an area where the tap water isn't good.
There was never an problem with it.
however, quite a few years ago I started to see this black staining and sludge coming from my taps. In particular the inside of the toilet cistern there was black sludge growing up the sides of the Cistern.
So I have not drunk any tap water for at least 5 years.
I installed a water filter that has four ceramic water filter candles.
The water now tastes great again. No sludge either.
considering that Thames water has ripped people off, dumped tons of pollutents and sewage into our rivers yet still pay their executives millions in bonuses.
All water companies need to be owned by the people, not some for profit wankers
I wont drink that shit anymore
I wont buy that shit in bottles either, have you bothered to read the label on bottled water.
Not regularly. More of an alcoholic.
>Do you filter tap water?
Yes.
>What filter do you use?
Brita? Nothing too fancy tbh. I'm not particularly conspiracy theory on the subject.
>Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)?
Canada, yes I'm sure I do. If i could flip a switch and never drink unfiltered, I would in a heartbeat.
>Something else?
I'm still unconvinced of the threat of fluoride and arsenic. Both of which are actively added to the drinking water in Canada.
In my city they dont use chloramine but do add chlorine. You only need to let it breath a couple days before it's gone. You drink chlorinated water and that chlorine goes somewhere. Do you know where it's going and what it's doing to you? Is that why we have gut biome problems?
BPA and other estrogens are extremely high in Canada. They did a study about how much birth control was in our drinking water and they said, 'oh no, less than 1% of the estrogens come from the pill' and that's entirely because there's that much. It mainly sources from diary farms. Not a problem for me.
Im in a city, so there's very little heavy metal problem. If you're rural or native reserve that's very different. Uranium, lead, iron, mercury are common in the drinking water in northern ontario. Especially uranium surprisingly.
Fertilizers, Herbicides and pesticides are extreme in Canada; our numbers are something like 20x-30x higher than the EU's limit.
PFAOS are extreme in most of Canada.
TLDR:
dont drink the tap water in canada, drink alcholic beverages