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People with experience working in and around municipal water infrastructure: Do you drink tap water? Are there times when you do not? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This question is obviously intended for those that live in places where tap water is "safe to drink."

I live in Southern California, where I'm at the end of a long chain of cities. Occasionally, the tap smells of sulfur, hardness changes, or it tastes... odd. I'm curious about the perspective of people that are directly involved and their reasoning.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I live in Minnesota. Close to Minneapolis. My brother does testing for swimming pools. He tested the city water for contaminates. He says do not drink it. If the level of chlorine in the city water was in pool water the pool would be shut down. It would not be safe to even swim in it. Yet the city claims it's safe to drink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not that I don't trust your brother who... works for the pools, but is there any data to back up this claim? The claim that, if I read right, that there's more chlorine in tap water than in the pools? Sounds like something we could easily have tested.