I’ve always been under the childlike impression that my tap water is clean clean, but when thinking about it today I realised that it’s unlikely that tap water is completely sterile, certainly not by the time it reaches my house through miles of pipes. So, just how unsterile can it be and still pass muster with the local government?
If we accept a certain number of rodent hairs or cockroach shells in each helping of our processed foods, I can only imagine what’s considered acceptable when it comes to tap water.
For reference, I’m in N. Ireland, which is, regrettably, the UK. But obviously the island of Ireland is where my water comes from. From this nightmarish swamp, to be precise.
Stay moist, hydrohomos.
I had a family member who had a kidney stone start drinking their tap water a lot so they wouldn’t get another one. Their tap (well) water had so much calcium that they ended up getting another kidney stone from drinking too much water.
It doesn’t work like this, though. High calcium alone won’t give you kidney stones. They ended up with another kidney stone because they either had a genetic predisposition or because they didn’t end the habit that caused their kidney stone.