• confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m a grown man with a fat bank account and I drink water from the tap as do my four kegged friends. I am lucky enough to be able to choose to live in a developed city with clean drinking water. Which really should be the norm. I know this story is supposed to be uplifting but it makes me sad.

    • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      These people could also be living on a well which typically have hard water. Most of them are safe to drink from but it won’t taste great so it would make sense to filter it. There’s nothing that hints at where they live so I wouldn’t get to bothered by it.

    • schnokobaer@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Loads of people in cities with perfectly clean and healthy tap water still use water purifiers because they like supporting the filtration industry, or worse believe in crystals doing magic to their water.

    • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      It’s not necessarily a filter thing, it could just be a temperature thing. In some cities even the cold tap water isn’t that cold in the summer.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve lived my entire life in the two best tasting water serving cities in America, and I grew up with and decades later continue to use, water filtration. I don’t understand the flex you’re doing here. And what is sad? Also, you do know much of the industrialized world outside the States drinks bottled water, right?