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Be honest, cu/ck/s, is it unhealthy to drink tap water? I'm
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Be honest, cu/ck/s, is it unhealthy to drink tap water?

I'm from America, where they have a first world sanitation system, not some shithole like Canada.
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>>7619125
Probably better if you asked /sci/.
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>>7619125
Water safety/quality does not vary much in the US, but water deliciousness does vary widely by city in the US. It is never utterly unsafe, unless you have a paranoia about flouride.

If you have some sensitive taste issues, you probably don't love well water in your locale and will have some kind of extra filtration installed in your house or least a water softener for hardness affecting laundry/showers/hair, but it'll likely test as "safe" just mineral-rich, that is, if you don't live in some horrible known area with issues like maybe near a mine.
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>>7619125
Buy a faucet filter and test your water for lead.
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>>7619141
>never utterly unsafe
What about Flint my good man
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>>7619125
buy a water tester they are like 30$ dood
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>>7619543
That's different though. It was fraud, and it was temporary. Water was previously good before those jokers got in on it.
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I dun drink city water. It always tastes like it came from the swimming pool.
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>>7619568
Sure

Mississippi
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/high-levels-lead-mississippi-water-flint-michigan

Philadelphia
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/10/philadelphia-school-drinking-water-lead-contamination-testing-epa

Texas
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/02/texas-water-quality-arsenic-levels

Possibly nationwide due to questionable testing methods
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/06/water-utilities-lead-testing-analysis-us-cities
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>>7619141
>paranoia about flouride
You mean fluoride - fluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride. That shit isn't safe don't fool yourself. It's known to negatively affect brain development among other things. Even if it were safe, you'd have to be retarded to believe you can even control the dosage appropriately when it's just dumped straight into the water supply for everyone.
>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

>>7619125
it's always a good idea to filter your water OP, wherever you are
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I'm from Melbourne in Australia and we apparently have some of the best water quality in the world which explains why I become a prissy little bitch and buy bottled water whenever I go on a holiday
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>>7619125
Australia has the safest and purest tap water in the world
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>>7620363
Fellow melb-bro here. Don't like Sydney water. Tastes like chlorine
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>>7620363
you need to see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfiCP3HYxFg
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>>7620369
>>7620386
and you
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Water in the US is perfectly safe west of the Mississippi. Everything else needs very close reevaluation.
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>>7620386
It's all fine and dandy to tell me I'm being eviscerated by fluoride, but in all seriousness, is it fucking with me that bad?
One day, am I going to hit a fluoride cap and explode?
We still have pretty much the best water in the world and I'm grateful for that.
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>>7620412
yeah the water is great, before waste is deliberately dumped in it
yes it is fucking with you that bad, it builds up in the body and if you drink it for most of your life it will leave you cognitively stunted and can cause things like bone cancer, dental and skeletal fluorosis
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idk man i drink murican tap and blood tests reveal that i'm pretty damn healthy

paranoid lil shits
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>>7619125
Licenses water operator is. Depends where you but generally in the US yes. Some private wells can have some bad shit but you can filter most of it, it'll just cost more money. They test public water supplies often enough it generally should be fine.
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>>7620306
Gotta watch out for those Chem trails too
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>>7619125
>America
>where they have a first world sanitation system
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>>7620306
You sound like my schitzo father, pls stop
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>>7619125
your innercity water is fucking disgusting
look at new york and chicago
toronto is miles above anything you have you fucking cunt
ps stop asking us for water because you were dumb enough to settle in the desert. fucking californians
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>>7619568
It isn't temporary if its still going on.
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>>7619125
>I'm from America.
Yes.
99% chances are, you get healthy dose of fluoride dumped into your water.
Fluoride is a neurotoxin and it's literally killing your brain.
Living in Europe, I only have to worry about chlorine in the water, but holy hell, how do you burgers even manage when your water is literally poisoned?
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>>7619568
Let's be clear here. It was black people fucking themselves over yet AGAIN and blaming white people.
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>>7623021
>stating you live in """""""Europe"""""""
Greetings my self-hating Americuck
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