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   「 Fried Fristi 」 (fristi@akkos.fritu.re)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:16:59 JST 「 Fried Fristi 」

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   @FloatingGhost what do they mean with filtered though
   
   isn't tap water already supposed to be filtered and thus clean?
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:16:55 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @fristi @FloatingGhost bottled water is (mostly) a scam from the 1980s, there is nothing wrong with tap water in most places in the USA (notable exception: detroit)
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:18:23 JST DulceKennedy

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     @sun @fristi @FloatingGhost nice try Antichrist, I will only drink safe sugary sodas
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     gummyrat (gonnefishin@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:22:14 JST gummyrat

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     @sun @fristi @FloatingGhost unfortunately there is h. pylori in the water in my county and the three surrounding counties; so I do buy bottle water... though I'm thinking eventually I should drop it all and just get my own filter so I could save in the long run
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:22:54 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @gonnefishin @FloatingGhost @fristi I will say that many people buy bottled water because even if the tap is safe, it doesn't always taste good.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:30:42 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @sun Most home filtering systems aren't there for safety purposes ... they don't promise to filter out disease-causing organisms. Those filtering systems are there to remove things that make the water taste bad.
     
     Also, Irwindale CA has the worst water I've seen with the exception of a couple of places in LA and MS where the water was intermittently yellow with sulfur compounds. Irwindale was known for its rock quarries, and as of the 1980s, the water comes out looking like whole milk and after about ten minutes it looks like skim milk. The flavor is horrible. I expect it to overwhelm a Brita filter within 2-3 days.
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     「 Fried Fristi 」 (fristi@akkos.fritu.re)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:36:13 JST 「 Fried Fristi 」

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     @gonnefishin @sun tbh if your tap water is shit, just get your own filter. Bottled water is a full-on scam perpetuated by Coca Cola.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 02:40:50 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @sun That said, there are plenty of water systems that skimp on maintenance in order to increase profits & dividends. The water system in the town I recently left had gone something like 20 years without upgrading their pipes until constant breaks and water loss started to affect their profits. Then they pushed through a big price increase (they were already the highest priced in the area) and began a multi-year replacement program.
     
     If you weren't in one of the parts of town where water mains repeatedly broke, you wouldn't know. (One water main burst and flooded the garage where I used to live. Another one blocked off access to a neighborhood as a torrent of water deep enough to carry away cars came across multiple roads. A close friend's parent's house used to have floods running across their driveway multiple times per year.)
     
     So there's no assurance that the water coming from the pipes is actually germ-free, as no one knows what it may have picked up from the ground during the trip.
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