I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/know-your-water-quality/

90 212 1 year ago

People are really funny about water. Recently had family visit us in Portugal, and they refused to drink the tap water anywhere - despite it being an EU country and complying with relevant standards, rigorously.

Then again, they also refused to drink our water at home, which I know is nothing but H2O, as we live off grid and it all goes through numerous filters before hitting the RO.

Then again, where they live (and drink the tap water), I also drink the tap water, because again, EU, safe - but it tastes like a swimming pool, as they dose it heavily with chlorine.

Each to their own.

mig39• 1 year ago

In Portugal, I tend to fill a big jug with tap water (which I know is safe, I watched them put in the treatment plant!), but then leave it in the fridge. After a bit of time, the chlorine just evaporates. So it's nice and cool.

madaxe_again2• 1 year ago

The chlorine in the water is still there, but yes, the free chlorine (which is what you smell/taste) dissipates fairly quickly once it isn’t contained.

ajb• 1 year ago

My parents drink tap water, but every morning my father would pour away a few liters of water in case the supply pipe was made of lead and the water sitting in it overnight had absorbed some. (This is actually the official government advice in the UK, if your house is older than 1970. Of course, the better option is to replace it with non lead, if you can.)

vsskanth• 1 year ago

It's mostly for taste at this point, rather than safety. For a long time I used to drink right from the tap, now use a filter pitcher simply because it tastes better.

Crye• 1 year ago

does it taste better because of temperature, aeration?

lagniappe• 1 year ago

lower TDS, less chlorine smell

thrill• 1 year ago

Far less of everything that is bigger than a water molecule.

torqueehmada3• 1 year ago

Not the person you asked, but the chlorine level is very high in my muni water so I like running it through a Britta charcoal filter. If I'm in a rush, tap is fine.

scotty79• 1 year ago

where can I check how much PFAS my local water in EU contains?

tetris11• 1 year ago

https://foreverpollution.eu/map/

It's not as good as the US's one though

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

constantcrying2• 1 year ago

You should look at the website of your local water distributor, mine has very local measurements about the tap water.

username2232• 1 year ago

The fact that potable water is so cheap in the developed world that you can use a gallon of it to flush your toilet is a miracle of civilization. Filter it if that makes you feel better, but it's a waste of money, and a dismissal of a major achievement in public health.

But hey, at least it's not bottled water, which is basically tap water that has been put in a single-use plastic bottle and trucked across the country.

jasoncartwright• 1 year ago

Tangential! I bought a 210L water butt to collect rainwater to water plants a while back. It cost £110 to my door with the all installation parts. Out of interest I looked up that the cost to fill it with pristine London tap water would be ~52p. 211 uses and I'm at breakeven, money-wise.

formerly_proven• 1 year ago

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donnachangstein3• 1 year ago

But hey, at least it's not bottled water, which is basically tap water that has been put in a single-use plastic bottle and trucked across the country.

Everyone acts like bottled water is evil until there is a water crisis, then it's the lifeline.

username2232• 1 year ago

I don't understand your point. That $8/gal water next to the Starbucks checkout is not addressing a crisis when the baristas are rinsing out people's cups with equivalent water for free. The bottled water isn't next to the prepper-sized cans of dehydrated food in your supermarket.

ghostly_s• 1 year ago

Wirecutter "expert" doesn't hold much sway for me with the quality of their reviews these days.

aprilthird20214• 1 year ago

Wirecutter is just a worse version of Consumer Reports where they don't guarantee they aren't running ads and accepting money from the retailers whose products are featured in the media

homefree• 1 year ago

It's even worse than that - they have the same anti-tech political bent as the rest of the legacy tech press. Thankfully we have better options now.

bobxmax3• 1 year ago

If I need something I usually just buy what Wirecutters recommends and I'm rarely disappointed.

Uehreka• 1 year ago

I love this guy’s review of the Molekule air purifier where he rips it to shreds while detailing his methodology. If nothing else, I definitely trust this guy.

bsimpson• 1 year ago

It's an allegory of trust:

They write thoughtful looking reviews with headings like "why you should trust me" and you think "okay!" Then they recommend something that sucks and you think "never again."

BugsJustFindMe7• 1 year ago

Money quote:

readings of PFAS that exceed EPA limits have been found in just 8% of small public water systems (those that serve fewer than 10,000 people) and 15% of large ones

15%!

Anyone who trusts their municipal water supply because of *handwave* regulations and reports needs to read that again.

Even if my water were 100% pristine as the author's apparently is, which they only know for their own homes because they've tested it at their taps half a dozen times with different laboratories, my tap water still tastes awful, and maintaining a dedicated three stage filter spout next to my kitchen faucet costs me approximately nothing and provides substantially better tasting water. And I don't need to worry about whether I live in the next Flint, Michigan.

It took two whole years for administrators in Flint, Michigan to acknowledge their lead pipe crisis. What your treatment plant claims it does and what your municipal government claims your safety profile is do not matter one bit if you aren't constantly testing the water actually coming out of your taps.

I'd rather just filter my water. It's much less hassle and I get better tasting water as a nice bonus.

timr2• 1 year ago

I'm failing to see your point. If you think it helps -- whether because of taste or personal trust issues or something else -- then great, filter your water. You do you.

The article is clearly for someone who is otherwise on the fence and doesn't have those issues.

BugsJustFindMe7• 1 year ago

I'm failing to see your point

That's weird because I'm pretty sure that my point is explicitly spelled out. But just in case, here it is again:

If your trust is based in municipal numbers or statements, you should be aware that municipal numbers and statements are not trustworthy because there's a lot of widespread decaying infrastructure (and coverup!) between where they test, what they make public, and where your water comes out of your faucet.

And if your trust is based on "Rah, rah, America!", you should know that 15% (!!) of water systems serving over 10k people have PFAS levels measured above what the EPA says is safe. (And if you don't think that 15% is a lot, holy smokes, that's nuts.)

So if you aren't testing your tap constantly then you have no idea what your water is like, no matter what the city says their water is like.

And if you are testing your taps constantly, it's less hassle and gives a better result to just filter your water instead.

The author says "I don't filter because I constantly test my taps and they're good each time." That's not the same at all as saying that filtering isn't a generally good idea, especially for anyone who isn't constantly testing their taps. The author ALSO says "a fuckton of you have more PFAS in your water than the EPA says is safe, just not me, lol". The author also chooses to ignore that their good water today may become bad tomorrow.

donnachangstein3• 1 year ago

and maintaining a dedicated three stage filter spout next to my kitchen faucet costs me approximately nothing

Calling bullshit on this one. I have one, it's positively wonderful, but the filters are expensive and per the manufacturer's recommendation you're supposed to change them all simultaneously. So when one times out, they all time out. This runs approximately $150 a year minimum depending on usage.

BugsJustFindMe7• 1 year ago

This runs approximately $150 a year

$150 per YEAR at american prices is approximately nothing. That's a measly 41 cents a day.

People spend far far more than that on far far more frivolous things without thinking twice.

kelnos• 1 year ago

I suspect for most people posting here, $150 per year is "approximately nothing".

tguvot11• 1 year ago

filters are cheap if you don't use fancy branded system that came up with it's own filter that incompatible with anything else

bernawil6• 1 year ago

So when one times out, they all time out

Some units give you different fixed timespans for each. For that reason, I just use the Reverse Osmosis stage and ignore the rest. RO is the last step, and in theory it renders pure water meaning the only reason to have the previous ones is to pre-filter somewhat the water and extend the RO cartridge lifespan. Problem with that is, first, there's no way to gauge when each filter is spent. Second, they're priced the same anyway, so why even bother. Just go straight from tap to RO! Keep the post re-mineralization stage if you want.

mousethatroared12• 1 year ago

What system are you using? My five stage filter system has me replace the charcoal filters once a year and the RO every... three? Maybe five?

But let's assume it costs you $150 a year. Thats less than $0.50 a day for drinking and cooking water. I doubt you could buy any significant amount of bottled water for fifty cents.

zahlman2• 1 year ago

three stage filter spout

... But does it remove the PFAs?

BugsJustFindMe7• 1 year ago

You can read the independent test data sheet: https://www.brondell.com/content/UC300_Coral_PDS.pdf

But if you want a full RO system, go for it. They cost only slightly more and just take up more room under the sink.

OptionOfT• 1 year ago

Your filter system is not set up for water that is microbiologically unsafe to drink.

And if that filter setup also has an RO system your cost is more, as with RO you have a certain amount of rejection rate.

tguvot11• 1 year ago

last time i made calculation, it was still cheaper than bottled water

mousethatroared12• 1 year ago

I trust my municipality to give me microbiologically safe water.

Because I trust bleach, not my local water authority.

I certainly do not trust them to give me chemically clean water. So I have a $150 under-sink RO system.

teruakohatu• 1 year ago

Anyone who trusts their municipal water supply because of handwave regulations and reports needs to read that again.

A better approach is to decide whether your municipality meets or exceeds guidelines (the 85% that do).

I trust my city (in New Zealand), but there are other cities I wouldn’t because their water infrastructure is old and under funded, or because of known problems in the recent past.

dzhiurgis• 1 year ago

Have you tested your filtered water in “ half a dozen times with different laboratories”?

StopDisinfo910• 1 year ago

I think the writer is sidestepping the main issue most of the people who want to filter their water are thinking about. Sure, your tap water is within the federal limits for contaminants. The issue is that these limits are significantly too high for PFAS out of convenience for the water supplying side.

cypherpunks01• 1 year ago

A surprising amount of Americans refuse to drink tap water entirely, in their own suburban homes with quality municipal water, or anywhere else they travel, holding the opinion that plastic bottled water is safer and better. Of course bottled water is regulated far less than tap water, and contains an ungodly amount of microplastics from manufacturing and storage.

Under-sink RO systems seem pretty great to me, anywhere you live. With a small holding tank, municipal water pressure is enough to drive small RO cartridges, requiring no electrical power to run, and giving more than sufficient flow rate for all drinking water. I think the biggest downside is a few hundred dollars in initial setup, and cartridges every year or two. This seems safer than relying on the changing opinions of experts as to what amount of harmful chemicals are safe to drink.

BugsJustFindMe7• 1 year ago

A surprising amount of Americans refuse to drink tap water entirely, in their own suburban homes with quality municipal water

It shouldn't be surprising that Americans might understand that their water might not actually be safe despite the municipal government saying it is. It took two whole years for administrators in Flint, Michigan to acknowledge their lead pipe crisis. Trust needs to be earned and maintained, and America is notoriously bad at maintaining critical public infrastructure.

n4r9• 1 year ago

America is notoriously bad at maintaining critical public infrastructure.

How does that compare with food safety in commercial products? That's the question.

porphyra• 1 year ago

Even if safe, municipal water where I live (San Jose, California) contains a ton of chlorine and is super hard, making it unpleasant to drink. In contrast, bottled water consistently tastes fine.

adastra222• 1 year ago

San Jose water is absolute trash. There may not be (much) lead, but there are a host of other minerals and contaminants. It’s also a roll of the dice whether you’ll find Legionnaires' disease in your pipes.

I have a whole-house soft-water filter for general use, and for drinking/cooking get 5-gallon bottles filled with RO purified water from The Water Spring on Homestead in Santa Clara. The municipal source for RO water matters, and Santa Clara has the best utilities in the valley.

http://waterspring.com/

Stay safe out there.

Barrin92• 1 year ago

sorry if this is a stupid question because we don't have chlorinated water in Germany, but do people brew green tea or good coffee with tap water? Doesn't it taste god awful? One of the things which I remember from my holidays in Spain as a kid, which is one of the few countries which adds it here, is that the water tasted like pool water.

darth_avocado• 1 year ago

One side effect of RO is vitamin B12 deficiency. And there is some debate around whether that is true or not, but anecdotally, I had developed a severe B12 deficiency to the point that one day out of the blue, I couldn’t move one of my legs. I freaked out and went to the ER, and it turns out, 1 B12 shot later, I went back to normal within minutes. The doctor hypothesized that I had developed a severe B12 deficiency because of RO water and that I supplement my food with B12 supplements. The regular intake of meat/eggs wasn’t sufficient to compensate for the lack of B12 absorption.

cinntaile• 1 year ago

What's the mechanism here? Because it's not like there is B12 supplements in the water.

kadushka2• 1 year ago

I drank only distilled water for 16 years. No supplements all that time, just regular food. No B12 deficiency or any other health issues.

unyttigfjelltol2• 1 year ago

Similar risks regarding removal of sulfate from public water supply, or via filtration.[1] Who knew! Some of us were relying on actual nutrients from the water all along. Pristine water was, and is, a challenge for this cohort.

[1] https://biomedres.us/fulltexts/BJSTR.MS.ID.006372.php

eesmith• 1 year ago

The only papers I could find in Google Scholar about this connection all come from India, and does not seem strongly connected. The study at https://journals.lww.com/jfmpc/fulltext/2025/04000/prevalenc... , for example, says:

While some studies have hypothesized that the use of RO water could contribute to vitamin B12 deficiency, no significant differences were observed in this study.[20] Symptoms of deficiency were not significantly associated with serum vitamin deficiency status. Only VDD was significantly associated with fatigue as a symptom. This discrepancy raises questions about the current normative values for vitamin B12 and vitamin D3 in the Indian population and suggests the need for further research.

A whole lot of people drink RO water. If it were a simple correlation, I would expect to see cases and papers from all across the world.

I also know there's a long history of false claims along the lines "distilled water sucks the minerals from your body", also called "hungry water". I first heard in the 1980s as a supposed reason for not using distilled water in a radiator. Or even commentary of it in the Carnivorous Plant FAQ at https://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq3385.html .

Because of that long history, and the lack of a good mechanism for how it should work, I need a much higher level of evidence for a direct, causal connection.

mousethatroared12• 1 year ago

If water is giving you any nutrient in a significant manner, change your diet.

an_aparallel4• 1 year ago

My RO system has a remineralisation cartridge. You def dont want to drink ph neutral water, it feels hard, and doesnt taste sweet.

hollerith• 1 year ago

In your second paragraph you seem to be describing carbon-block filtration. Particularly, the maintenance of an RO system consists of a lot more than just replacing cartridges every year or two.

margalabargala2• 1 year ago

Could you elaborate? I have an undersink RO filter. Maintenance consists of changing filters every year or two.

zahlman2• 1 year ago

... bottled water ... contains an ungodly amount of microplastics from manufacturing and storage.

Is it worse than the other groceries we can't readily get without them being wrapped in plastic? Or storing leftovers in plastic bags at home?

s0rce6• 1 year ago

My guess is yes, because they can more easily get into the liquid. Unless you are talking about other liquids like juices or canned foods, those I would expect are similar or vary depending on the type of plastic.

jandrewrogers5• 1 year ago

The water in some parts of the US has natural chemistry that makes it unpleasant to drink even though it is safe. California urban areas are notorious for this, as an example. In principle you could remediate the water to make it taste good and remove any discoloration (also a thing in a few regions) with enough industrial processing but that would greatly increase the cost of already expensive tap water.

People who grew up in one of these areas are habituated into never drinking the tap water even if they move to a city with excellent tasting and very high quality tap water. I’ve lived in extreme examples of both.

You also see the opposite case, where someone who grew up with amazing tap water naively grabs a glass from the tap in north San Diego and has a “wtf is this” moment.

PlattypusRex• 1 year ago

San Diego's tap water tastes truly awful. The first time I ever traveled to another city (Denver), I was forced to drink the tap water and could not believe how good it tasted.

mousethatroared12• 1 year ago

A surprising amount of Americans live in cities that cheaped out on the water infrastructure and found out their water had lead.

Like me.

Luckily, I am very unreasonably distrusting of government and never drank the stuff.

more_corn2• 1 year ago

Didn’t the Trump EPA roll back water quality rules for forever chemicals? Chemicals that accumulate over time and are known to cause organ failure?

If the federal rules allow unsafe levels of PFAs it’s reasonable to expect that municipal water companies adhere to said unsafe limits. So no we probably should not trust our municipal water supplies.

Maybe in countries that have functional governments that’s a safe bet.

atoav• 1 year ago

I also don't filter my water, but I live in central Europe and our tap watrr adheres to stricter standards than bottled water, so there's that.

m3kw9• 1 year ago

Yep use it if it makes you feel better. I know water treatment people in my area have talked about the no need to use filters.

doug-moen• 1 year ago

The quality of your water varies with the district you live in. My municipal water provider puts chloramine in the water to kill bacteria. Occasionally we get high levels of chloramine, which is disgusting (smell and taste), but the water filter removes it. Occasionally they flush the pipes, which turns the water red, which is mentally disturbing, but the water filter removes the rust.

So while it's important to me that my municipal water is technically safe to drink, I still have a better experience with my drinking water when I use a filter. While it's amusing that this technical expert considers rust-red water to be "delicious", do they have family members, or friends that visit and consume beverages, and do these other people get to have an opinion?

9x39• 1 year ago

To be fair, he does say he isn't anti-filter, and I think his article was to calm the horses and hysteria out there. I filter water too, but it is things like testing maps (https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/) that really help eradicate the brainworms that I'm slowly poisoning myself from the tap.

I think the whole article was a pretty solid attempt at helping people like myself who tend to overreact when it comes to exposure figure out that the fear and the danger are often not the same.

BTW, unless you were just being sarcastic, the rusty water was him talking about the filtered water from a LifeStraw - something that's miraculous as far as I'm concerned, seeing as I've drank mucky water out hiking through them just fine. Well, probably, anyway.

calmbonsai3• 1 year ago

Wirecutter was bad before the NYT acquisition and now it's lot any/all remaining credibility.

Much like CNBC, it's completely "turned the corner" for me and I take their editorial as a negative signal.

In other words, definitely filter your water.

bobxmax3• 1 year ago

Wirecutter was bad before the NYT acquisition

How so?

calmbonsai3• 1 year ago

They would consistently recommend products based on affiliate revenue over value or performance.

timerol• 1 year ago

I hated my pitcher filter long before I knew I didn’t need it. It would clog up any time a bit of rusty water came through the pipes, which, in a 70-year-old building with cast-iron service lines, was often.

I'm a little confused that this is used as an argument against filtering water. I get that iron is not a particularly worrisome contaminant, but I still don't want the occasional "bit of rusty water" showing up in my glass

bradlys• 1 year ago

So, his suggestion isn't to buy a water filter system and filters that could last you 10+ years but instead to pay $300 for a test. Retarded. The NYTimes is such a joke and so is this guy. If you're living in newer construction in a place like NYC then you're likely going to be fine. I am in this group currently but I will be moving back to the bay soon and I will have to use my RO system.

If you live in the bay area, you know you have to filter your water because it tastes like metal. We hadn't even had an electric kettle for more than six months in our startup with less than 5 employees using it, the entire bottom of the kettle was covered in 1/4" thick plates of various minerals. Obviously, water differs per city but this was a common occurrence throughout the bay area. The water, of course, always tasted poorly. I'm not even getting into how the housing stock in the bay area is decrepit and full of homes and apartments that are nowhere near up to modern construction standards. You have copper pipes? That's cool but you probably still have lead solder in those pipes. Who knows what kind of supply pipes are coming off the street. Yeah, your local supply probably replaced the ones that run in the street but the ones on your property? Unlikely. Your fittings? Still could have up to 8% lead until 2014. The amount of homes I'd see that still have knob and tube wiring was astounding. You can bet your ass that place still has an abundance of lead all over it.

The poor tasting water in the bay area is reason enough to filter it - even if it wasn't for all these other issues like most homes not being up to modern standards. A lot of these water tests are done at the county's office. It does not reflect what your home will add to your water supply. So, yeah, getting at home test could be nice... for $300... or you could just install a nice RO system that will last many years and give you better water anyway.

dbcooper• 1 year ago

Why you should trust me

Absolutely zero mention of qualifications. If you do not have a chemistry/chemical engineering degree, or something closely related then why would anyone want to bother with your verbose writing?

sitzkrieg• 1 year ago

ah yes, degrees. i only absorb information from qualified individuals with degrees.

brookst4• 1 year ago

What qualifications do you look for, or do you just assume everyone who says they’re an expert is actually an expert?

mihaaly4• 1 year ago

Knowing something well is not dependent on formal education. Helps quite some, but not being a must. And more importantly: not a guarantee!

recursivedoubts8• 1 year ago

I'm a dude who doesn't care to run a chemical analysis of my municipal water every couple days. I filter my water.

mihaaly4• 1 year ago

Have you tested your filtered water - in various conditions - or you just trust it based on the words of others?

recursivedoubts8• 1 year ago

I just trust the carbon filters. Sorry.

recursivedoubts8• 1 year ago

i trust them based on berkey's reputation, but not fully

however, in series, i trust the govt water + berkey more than I trust either independently

basic probability

s0rce6• 1 year ago

If you don't test it how do you know what filters are needed to remove the contaminants. You may be filtering out things that aren't there and not filtering the actually hazardous things in your water. Although you probably guess things like PFAS and microplastics which appear to be ubiquitous now.

recursivedoubts8• 1 year ago

i use carbon filters, berkey specifically

they have a good reputation, but aren't foolproof

i trust govt + berkey in series more than I trust either alone

basic probability

tonymet• 1 year ago

if you are someone who regularly cleans and replaces your water filter, it's probably not hurting.

For most people their water filters are probably contributing more mold and contaminants than removing.

internet_points• 1 year ago

How much PFAS does the average water filter add to your water?

(How much PFAS do you get from plastic-bottled water / soft drinks instead of the stuff coming out of metal pipes?)

torqueehmada3• 1 year ago

Go find out and tell us. That would be really helpful information.

s0rce6• 1 year ago

You can probably review the wetted materials but fluoropolymers are more expensive and not required in consumer water filters so I would assume not much PFAS. If its some activated carbon and IEX resins then its likely not making things worse.

knappe• 1 year ago

I go back and forth on the issue. I read our local municipal water reports but then things like this happen https://www.vaildaily.com/news/climax-mine-can-now-release-h...

Denver water couldn't force the mine to continue cleanup of the molybdenum (because they're bankrupt) and instead raised the tolerable levels of molybdenum in Denver water. The same thing happened in 2017, 2010 and I'm certain before that. And then we have things like this https://www.cpr.org/2025/06/04/free-private-well-testing-ote...

Colorado has some serious issues with mine runoff and water contamination.

https://www.pagosasun.com/stories/the-day-the-river-turned-o...

Arch-TK• 1 year ago

That's nice. In the UK, tap water tastes like chlorine. If you are unfortunate enough to have chloraminated water, just letting it sit is insufficient. You need a filter which can remove the chloramine. After this, the water is actually too hard to make good coffee with, so I either zerowater it or distill it and then mix it with the filtered water using a TDS meter to hit a rough reference point (EC meters are not accurate gauges of TDS, but that's fine, you just want a consistent TDS not a precise TDS).

So sure, if you live in a civilised country and your water doesn't taste like shit and doesn't make your coffee taste awful and you trust your government to not give you poison or have tested your water to ensure it won't hurt you, go right ahead, be my guest.

But I will continue filtering my water because I hate the taste of chlorine and want to make the best out of the expensive coffee I buy.

storus• 1 year ago

After covid I noticed that drinking tap water was making me noticeably worse but buying packaged mineral water didn't (this was done over a few months). I later bought reverse osmosis and never hit that problem since. However, this year I learned that I live in a high-PFAS area (up to 300ng/L) so I am wondering if I was hitting PFAS overload somehow. Most of my flowers died quickly after watering them with the same tap water as well (when I still tried to have some house flowers).

bilsbie2• 1 year ago

Any concern about pharmaceuticals making it into tap water? Microplastics?

constantcrying2• 1 year ago

Where I live there are area local water reports, so you can enter your street and see where your water is coming from and a report, with quite a lot of measurements and including legal limitations for these measurements.

Water filtration should be an informed decision, based on what water you are actually getting.

foresto• 1 year ago

It is also certified for Particulate Class 1, which is a surrogate for microplastics.

Based on a web search, it looks like Particulate Class 1 means particles in the 0.5 to 1 micron range. Several carbon block filters are rated at 0.5 µm, so I guess they're meant to handle those microplastics, but it leaves me wondering:

Do any smaller microplastics exist? Are they likely to be present in municipal water supplies?

All the filter cartridges that I've seen, and almost all the housings and tubes that hold them and the water, are made at least partly of plastic. Given that water typically sits in these filtration systems for hours or days at a time when the tap is closed, could it be that microplastics are leaching into the water from them?

lxchase• 1 year ago

I had the same conclusion in searching for filters that specifically address a microplastics concern. I was unsuccessful in finding one that was not made of plastic.

deepsun• 1 year ago

Well, the current US administration is all against the environmental protection, so I expect the article advice might change in the nearest hears.

kdlskall• 1 year ago

The whole topic seems to be infused with a lot of loss-of-control issues…

In the end, there’s just so many more vague risks affected by the society you live in.

Driving a bit slower will probably offset a great deal of those.

dbg31415• 1 year ago

Filtered water tastes better.

t0bia_s• 1 year ago

Our tap water has strong chlorine smell. Since we add a filter, chlorine smell is gone and water taste better. When I drink unfiltered water from my parents house, I immediately recognise it.

1970-01-01• 1 year ago

I would not trust the EPA, FDA, or any other administration to be on top of your health with the current POTUS. If they get caught not doing the right thing on the job, there's no accountability or an immediate pardon. If you can afford it, filter your water.

tdpvb• 1 year ago

Relevant study: living within 1 mile of a golf course, or relying on groundwater affected by them, significantly increases Parkinson's risk over time.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

ultra_water• 1 year ago

https://ultrawatersolutions.com/venice Removes 249 chemicals in pharmaceuticals with third-party testing certifications! You can’t get better than this!

cornhole• 1 year ago

I don’t drink my tap water because that shit dries white and I’m not trying to get a kidney stone

leakycap5• 1 year ago

I love products that are regulated, like water filters. You can look them up and verify that they meet specifications that make a difference.

Right now, I prefer the Brita Elite. Refills available everywhere and it makes my chlorinated tap water taste clean. (Not the same as regular Brita).

I tried about 40 brands over the years. Brita Elite is the first one with no drawbacks that make me want to keep looking for something better.

I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water

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