How clean is our drinking water? Is it going down the drain?

HaHaHa! Interesting Tags!

Water quality varies greatly from one community to the next. Additives like Flouride are still heavily debated as to their health benefits vs. risks. I have a Brita filter on the faucet and a Brita pitcher for the fridge… so cooking water is filtered once and drinking water gets filtered twice.

Oh! I see what you did there, yes, very clever.

Honestly, I think the hubbub about drinking water (and the things found within it) point to the fact that we need to find a better way to recycle it more than anything. I mean, the drugs and what-have-you that we’ve been finding come from when people wash left over meds down the sink and, um, once they’ve been used. We really can’t clean the water well enough to get that stuff out again? Really? What else is being left in post-use?

(Seriously, the worries about things like drugs in the drinking water or whatever else simply reinforce where they entered the stream to me.)

we are lucky to have as clean of water as we do. imo brita filters are pretty much a waste of money. we have so much clean water already that we can water our yards with drinking water! not many countries can do that.

Do you honestly think you are the first human to drink that drop of water?

Sorry to be morbid – but your ancestors drank it first. And then they excreted it. And it went into the rivers. And it went into the oceans. And if it wasn’t evaporated at some point before this, it sure will have been by now. and then it rains down on the ground. Alot of it gets caught deep down in the earth, and gets filtered and purified by the earth. And then we gather the drinking water from the springs. And we drink it. And excrete it.

C’est la vie.

@skabeep: I don’t know how effective the Brita is on a chemical level, but I can definitely taste a difference.

I live in Arkansas and our water is naturally tasty! I remember trying water in Florida once and almost puked. I didn’t realize brita changed taste. Maybe it could be useful…. Or you should just move to Arkansas and share my delicious water

@Squirbel: See, that’s what I was talking about not wanting to really think about. That. Right there. It makes it a LOT harder to look at that large, cold glass of water when all I can think about it is, “Mmmm… recycled piss.”

Thanks.

(Also: strangely, I have no problems with milk which should freak me out just as much if not more. I mean it comes from another animal. It’s not even meant for us. But no, I’m chill with that.)

what place are u talking about?

empresspixie- I never thought about the cows but now that you mention it good point I wonder if people sell boob milk or if people other than babies like it or drink it. Eww!

rofl.

Oh! Oh! PETA totally was all over that stuff. They petitioned Ben and Jerry’s to make some breastmilk ice cream. No, thanks.

I think there is a market for breastmilk, but it is one of those really strange markets. You know, only uber-moms and fetishists.

oh the madness I’m not down! Those are the hard core nature/hippie people that breast feed until their kid is like 20
sarcasm

Tap water is perfectly safe if you live in most first world countries. It does vary from area to area in taste and exact mineral composition.

And for the record, you can’t make cheese with breast milk. Not enough protein apparently.