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Stop drinking bottled water: Experts warn of health and climate impacts (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"Stop drinking the tap water, it's contaminated from fracking"

"Stop drinking the tap water, it's contaminated by lead"

"Stop drinking the tap water, it's over-saturated with fluoride"

and now

"Stop drinking bottled water, there are microplastics in it"

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just filter your tap water. Then you can drink it from glass containers instead of plastic. I spent about $100/year on filters for my RO unit and it delivers bottled water quality drinking water at home.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What about amide nanoplastic from the RO membrane?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Hell if I know

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Given the amount of variety of materials that water interacts with before it reaches your house and the fact that RO can remove the majority of organic and dissolved pollutants, it is probably still better to get a bit of plastics from the RO than the plethora of pollutants that are otherwise present. The benefits of this may vary widely based on the quality of the tap water.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yea, we've got one. But when I lived in an apartment I wasn't allowed to install something like that, i'm gonna guess that most people aren't in a situation where they can use one.

I don't think there pitcher options that are as effective for fluoride or heavy-metals, but I don't actually know off hand

[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

They have countertop RO filters now

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

There’s countertop reverse osmosis filters

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fortunately for me, I live in a city with pretty good tap water and I have newish copper pipes (post 2000).

The biggest concern we have right now is the potential of PFAS contamination, but its under the EPA and European regulated limits.

Which given what I know about most bottled water sourcing (generally, it's just tap water from somewhere else) it is really the best I can hope for.