Soooo many people say tap water is bad... how come??? Is there any merit to it?
>>35080079
The only thing "bad" about it, is the huge controversy of flouride. (Which is really fucked up, and only exists so pharmaceutical companies have an excuse to sell their fluoride, lobbying and capitalism at it's finest)
a lot of people who don't take multi vitamins, but ONLY drink purified water, end up with head aches and other shit, the reason being you NEED a lot of those minerals in the tap water that people want to filter out.
>>35080399
ncie dubs, must be true
is tehre a way to filter out fluoride?
>>35080409
If you want shit teeth, sure.
>>35080415
i brush twice a day and floss once. And i eat no candy/sweets.
I think my teeth will be fine, good goy
fluoride lowers test and your iq
>>35080399
Yup, because that's how pharmaceutical companies make their money--by selling fluoride, a simple unpatentable chemical, to U.S. municipalities to put in their water at 1 ppm.
Pfizer has a market cap of $45 billion. Is it because they sell blockbuster drugs like Lupitor and Viagra? Nope. It's the flouride. Wake up, sheeple!
>>35080079
It would help if you told us where you are (or better yet, if you just looked at water quality stats for wherever you live). If you live somewhere with high water quality, tap water is as good for as bottled – probably better, certainly less wasteful, and cheaper.
If you're worried, get a filter pitcher. If you're really worried, get a serious water filtration system, but not before you've looked at local water stats and determined that you actually need one.
Disregard the loons going on about fluoride, unless you're prepared to invest in a tinfoil suit as well. Sure is /x/ in here today.
> Tap water is bad.
> Buy bottled water.
>>35080564
Umm.....
>U.S. municipalities to put in their water at 1 ppm.
There's a lot of fucking water in the US, it's still 1ppm OF ALL THE WATER
>Yup, because that's how pharmaceutical companies make their money.
It is one part of revenue for the largest industry in the world (military might be bigger, can't remember)
Just because a company makes a trillion dollars a year through some drug, doesn't mean that they don't make millions off another. (millions is still worth paying a lobbyist, it's just part of the whole equation)
>>35080415
That has been disproven so many times, also the fluoride was ONLY MEANT TO HELP THE HOMELESS WHO COULDN'T BRUSH THEIR TEETH. (This was the bullshit theory used, and the "we are helping the homeless" gave them the do-gooder excuse to lobby for selling fluoride.)
>>35080079
>water treatment fag here
nothing is wrong with it, I drink it all the time. There's so many rules and regulations municipalities have to follow in order to send it out. Where you have to be careful is drinking domestic well water, it is literally being pulled straight from the ground to your glass. There's so many chemical plumes out there from gas stations, dry cleaners, industrial sites, ect. that it makes the water extremely at risk to be become contaminated with something that will possibly give you cancer or some shit
My tap water is super acidic and it's cheaper than to buy bottled water than a $3K water alkalizer. I rent too so it would be a waste.
>>35080399
Actually the fluoride is in the water because it has an empirically proven positive influence on the health of peoples teeth. If tap water wasn't fluoridated you'd see a hell of a lot more people with rotten teeth
>>35080399
>>35080409
>>35080415
>>35080450
toothpaste has 1000x the amount of fluoride in water
tap water just tastes like ass, its not unhealthy. its treated so fucking much.
>>35081192
That's why you don't swallow it Rainman
>>35081146
This desu.
And if you don't like the taste of your tap water buy a filter bottle and leave it open in the fridge overnight. The filter will catch most of the minerals, and leaving it open will allow the chlorine/fluorine to evaporate out, removing most of the taste.
Tin foil hat the thread
>>35081192
If you're drinking liters of toothpaste i've got news for you dude
civil engineer here
I know a thing or two about this topic
Depending on how advanced the treatment plant is, the water you get from the tap will basically be sterilized and filtered water from whatever the source is. Treatment plants don't remove chemical pollutants in general.
