What Is Lurking In U.S. Tap Water? 

We need to make them pay for the $50 billion dollar bill and we need a chemical control act or something that ensures harsh or exotic chemicals are properly contained, the fact this or something similar wasn't talked about after east Palestine was shocking like c'mon at least upgrade the rail lines and cars transporting the harsh chemicals.

First a citizen has to file or press charges for this

@@joeyrinard6997 You can get people active for a time, but they will soon forget. The companies stick around and contribute to political campaigns. We have to stop companies from having a political voice. Companies are not people. They are not voters, and their interests are often contrary to ours. The Supreme court has made some terrible decisions in this area. Corporations are, by design, sociopathic. But we need them. So they must be regulated effectively to protect the public interests.

​@ldIezz unfortunately they could manipulate passing a bill that 'sounds' good but that won't do anything. It's all being done on purpose and intentionally to make people sick

​@@ChessMasterNateBest intelligent comment that's 100% true!

Thats what happens when business has too much control over the regulators that are supposed to monitor them, making corporate donations illegal would help otherwise politicians will continue to chase the money to the detriment of the environment, the country and the people that they're elected to serve.

yup, that's why life expectancy in the US is declining - the only major country (other than those at war) in the world where that is the case!

Just think of all the "stuff" not tested for!

I'm on my I own well.... We use 5 way filter system. Grow up or get a helmet

@@supertrucker99 Uh, yea... Wow. Thanks for that. I can certainly see why you put the super in trucker.

@@toastranger72 but can you figure out why he put the "i" between "my" & "own", cause I can't. Seems like maybe the filters haven't worked lol

Good For You...any recommendations for residential water filtering ?

@@richardbrown4486 A reverse osmosis system works great, I have one in my house. Reverse osmosis removes pfas and other contaminants and is worth it in the long term, to operate all you have to do is fill the machine with salt crystals that you can buy in many stores for cheap like $5 per bag and you need like 1 for each month depending on your filter.

You seems creating your own ghost 👻 stay living in (irrational ?) fear lol

@@Agent-ie3uv what is bro saying lol 💀

Carbon filters for home use vary widely in quality, any many are poor. The better ones tend to have a slow flow rate, since there's more carbon and the pieces are smaller.

My annual hike

A living wage?

Walter White

There's a lot more likely culprits than bacteria in causing migraines! Bacteria cause gastro issues, migraines are generally from chemicals

What part of Louisiana?

@@TheDeadMan3848 New Orleans

@@drakesanders5271 I’m in Lafayette and get migraines as well. I’ll try switching to botted to see if it helps, Thanks 😉

It's chlorine a d fluoride in the water. That's what you're allergic to but also there could be localised leaching minerals that are not controlled by EPA

Lies again? Pump sewage importance of safety

@@NazriBwhat lies?

Too busy spending money on wars

I have been using just normal water filter for nearly 40 years. Most important is, filtered also need to boil it to be totally safe.

@@sootuckchoong7077 , water from an osmosis filter doesn’t require boiling. Well, of course, you have to regularly use the system to keep the filter and the water tank fresh and clean. And I’ve already forgotten what the kettle scale is, all my kettles and jars have no scale at all.

AmeriKKKa is corrupt and the politicians are wealthy

No the US is quite mid in terms of tax rates. Try Europe to see how much they pay into their government services and gas tanks, and they largely mooch off the global trade routes kept open by the American military. On the other hand, if you want to see what a low-tax weak-state libertarian paradise looks like, look no further than sub-Saharan Africa.

it looks like we, Americans, don’t have a government, period. They are just people who take our money and don’t do things.

I don't even need to distill tap water to see how gross it is, I just pour it into a regular clear glass cup or bottle of some sort, shake it up a little bit and it barely looks clear at all. Sometimes I don't even like showering or brushing my teeth using tap water.

How do you remove the chemicals out of the distilled water?

You want purified water, not distilled water. Distilled water both lacks mineral nutrients, AND leeches a small amount of nutrients from your body. Try out a reverse osmosis filter if your distiller breaks

@@TheValiantZero Been drinking distilled water for 2-3 years now, and never felt so much better (headaches that blighted me from my teenage yes gone). Get minerals from my foods and you can also add trace minerals if your body is giving you lack signs. You can even leave the water to soak in a copper cup, and then add mint leaves and lemon juice. As of now I am more or less a very clean eater and my food is homemade. I don't drink sodas, sugar fake drinks, coffee, or hot chocolate. Its just water, a herbal tea and very rarely freshly squeezed juice. In a day an age where there is so much toxins with pesticides and BPAa plastics in everything especially water, we really need distilled water to flush it all out. It is also said distilled water is good for the Pineal Gland. Harden Pineal gland is linked to a lot of brain disorders like dementia and parkinsons.

Don't put distilled water in a copper cup if you are going to drink from it. Distilled water is more reactive and will dissolve some of the copper of the cup to regain minerals. Copper, just like lead is toxic. You can add trace minerals back to the distilled water (so it's not distilled water anymore) and then use a copper cup.@@DavidJohnson-dc8lu

Beer still requires water to brew.

Beer is usually filtered often; however, there are other answers than drinking beer. I am just putting that out there @@Adila10

The brewers are using the same water to make the beer that’s going to peoples taps. No difference.

Reinheitsgebot

Wasn't this why beer and distilling were invented in the first place. To sterilize and store drinking water safely. Not all these toxins now though. We are screwed.

britas do nothing actually

Fyi, Brita has been sued due to filtering almost nothing. Google brita vs reverse osmosis.

Phoenix AZ Suburbs. We moved Like 3 miles. The water tastes great. This past summer, major road reconstruction, tore absolutely everything up. Traffic nightmare. The H20 Now** tastes like crap ???

I have stomach issue drinking Brita filtered water. Not sure why.

The best, cleanest and most healthful water contains considerable dissolved minerals. The human body expects and needs them. The most expensive and best tasting (glass-) bottled water is called mineral water, and it's for a reason. It's no doubt good to filter out many things from water, but not the minerals.

I think that about sums up the video.

There is a lot to be said for the government to provide utilities like water, electricity and public transport. For some reason the public is averse to the government providing these services, corporations exist to make money so the services they provide will come with more expensive bills than the government would charge but that probably sounds too communist to many.

Yea...that was all in the video. Your comment added nothing

Jawohl!

only a drunk would know that beer doesn't require water

@@xr4nchyWhat about Indian poverty?

what is an RO system?

@@dustyrabbit9234 reverse osmosis system

Best investment ever when it comes to super clean water

THIS COMMENT. I'm a water treatment operator. We produce great water, but the water stays in the system for so long, by the time it gets to the customers is can degrade in quality. The RO systems are expensive, but worth it.

@@DoctorKnox RO systems are no longer expensive. I think I paid about $300 for mine. The 1 micron sediment filter, replaced twice a year, costs $10. A new membrane, replaced every five years, costs about $80. The water quality is amazing. I've used mine for sixteen years.

dont it filter the water at a very slow rate u have to wait a long time for it to filter the water i had the pur water filter years ago it was pathetic took too long to filter water i threw it away

@@mikeodee1164 It definitely takes longer than a brita. But that’s because it’s more thorough. If you fill the reservoir up it takes maybe 4 mins. You win some you lose some. 👍🏼

Don't listen to Kevin he's an ex Brita employee that quit and took company secrets with him to Zero

Project Farm did a good comparative test of several water filtration products. Brita didn’t do badly but didn’t do the best.

I agree that Brita sucks but "it makes it taste like pure spring water", no. "Spring Water" is FAR from pure, clean, maybe, not pure. Spring water has TONS of minerals in it, that's why people like it, it has a good taste. Pure water is tasteless and picks up flavor from whatever surrounds it. So in the case of water filters, it's plastic, you are probably tasting plastic. Big difference from real spring water. I'm saying this as the cheif water treatment operator of 6 different rural communities. Only one of which come off a lake, the other 5 are all fef from springs (not the same spring, all different). The springs have WAY better tasting water, but filtered water doesn't taste like it at all. If your water have a taste then you have to question just what it is you are tasting, because like I said, pure water is flavorless.

Remember though, chilling WON'T REMOVE toxins. Boiling and filtering WILL.

Portland will change that soon. Just give them time.

Because it comes from the mountains. Every country that has mountain water is amazing

I remember hiking in East Java one time and drinking straight from the stream that was irrigating the rice terraces downhill, and it was probably the most refreshing refilled bottle of water ever.

fallen behind on who? The small European counties with a median age of 70. Looking at sats, HDI US is at 17, adjusted to equality, US is 10th. If that was the case eueopen nations like France, Spain and Italy would have clean water that's not contaminated.

The same people complaining are the ones who won't allow high density buildings and rail in their well manicured suburbs.

Falling behind? It's been well behind for a long time. Just falling further and further.

It's not that it's too difficult to keep up with. It's that the people who have the power to keep up with infrastructure have no incentive to keep up with infrastructure. Properly maintaining a bridge doesn't win voters. Overpaying for a Football Stadium does. The entirety of my city's water infrastructure could be replaced with the cost they proposed for a new football stadium. On the flip side are the politicians who are paying back their donors with stupidly overpriced bike lanes.

Hahaha you can’t be serious, blaming the automobile for water quality is a stretch. I swear these anti-car internet warriors are becoming a cult.

Does rain water still contain PFAS too???

​@@GungaLaGungayea

@@patrickjohnson195 that's a bummer man. "It's a mess ain't it sherrif." If it ain't, it'll do 'till the mess gets here." Sheriff Ed Tom Bell

Good

why does your country not make the companies that put those chemicals there pay for their removal?

They did mention it under the blanket of *and other chemicals* so shhhhhh, just dont talk about the intentional poisoning of water!

We can talk about it all we want, what are they gonna do?@@hitone4319

We are the only country that allows it😢

It sounds good comma but clean drinking water is absolutely necessary for health and survival

Which one? 10 countries are first.

@@TomNook. The first one in the list

Plasma Activated Water (PAW) is the future.

not every people drinking tap water obviously, they're people drinking bottled mineral water, gallon supply, ozonized water, and mountain water. tap water in dense city is ill advice, for real.

Yea i was waiting for nc to be on the list at the bottom😂

that's too bad for the US. Now someone else has invented it & no doubt patented it, they will be unable to use it, cause their pride will get in the way, since they didn't invent it. Bit like how they still use paper money, cause they didn't invent polymer, or how they lost control of the pandemic, cause the test they invented didn't work & they refused to use the one invented by others

If we don’t support Ukraine your kids will be fighting Russians in Poland next year to protect NATO alliance. Imagine that.

oh man does it come out the tap nice and cold? Oh I remember cold clean great tasting well water in the White Mountains of Arizona at my uncles cabin. So good, we would bottle it up and take some home with us.

There's microplastics in the air and clouds now (from what I've read). Pretty sure there is plastic in glacier water now.@@GungaLaGunga

WAKE UP.... they're being paaaaid by these companies. I'll bet you argue over Biden or Trump, don't you?

Yes also popcorn and plastic waterbottles and cans also have the same coating🎉 its in pretty much everything😊

Same

That's federal law... You aren't lucky, the annual CCRs are everywhere.

What was left out of the test?

What is a water treatment plant gonna do with second hand military equipment?

Since the war began, Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, and nearly $14.5 billion military aid package for Israel (This figure does not include all war-related U.S. spending, such as aid to allies.) A water treatment plant might not be able to do 💩 with second hand military equipment, but with $89.5 billion you think thats enough to take care of the PFAS contamination in our water system or perhaps enough to make a dent in the amount of lead pipes that could be replaced? @@dropsofKarma

​@@dropsofKarmasell the equipment instead of giving it away

America needs to stop spreading out due to urban sprawl. Theres no reason why we need to spend over 400 billion dollars on water infrastruture or 1 trillion like the women said. No reason why 90 percent of the people who need that investment should be living in communities of or less than 10,000. That is a stat that is not said in the video.

naaa. I visited delhi earlier this year. We are still more fortunate here. LOL

@@vsznry Ya, brother. Lots of people drinks tap water. Quality varies from place to place and depends on anything. But when we see, America as a biggest power in the whole world is drinking tap water, it really surprised a lot. India has lots of problems, India doesn't have the economic might or technology to give every citizen safe drinking water. But at least India is trying. But in case of USA, common people are drinking 🚰 tap water and other people in different countries are drinking American bullets every day. Nice joke. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I and most people I know here in the US drink right from the tap (Utah).

One time I visited a frin a newly developed area where there was a brand new apartment building. That particular building's water tasted awful, and something inside kept saying sulfur. I didn't know what sulfur tasted like and my knowledge of it was slim to none. Something inside just kept saying sulfur, and that's all I know. I don't recall what we did about it, but it was awfully hard to drink water unless you drank bottled water. I don't recall if that's what we did or if we filtered it, I just don't recall. Shortly before he died though, the water started improving. Of course, neither one of us knew he was going to die. How and when he did, I'm just sorry. Sometimes the best things come to some people right before they die.

India has open raw sewerage. It's not people say, it IS a third world country.

The government probably covered it up like usual 😂😔

I am going to do the same

For 🐕

They put quite a bit of chlorine in your water, it's probably treated water from a reservoir or other surface source.

@@DoctorKnox oh ya. This is and has been the new normal. When these rain bombs happen, it just overwhelms the system. They have to dump more chlorine and other things in the water. I don't blame them. Everything in today's world is buyer beware. You have to take responsibility for yourself or you pay the consequences

Exactly especially when the government spends billions with no issue funding wars and giving handouts to Israel

Really?? How?😮

@@patrickjohnson195 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_Netherlands Moreover, chlorine is not added to our drinking water, which ensures a better taste, less corrosion of pipework (about 35 years old) and fewer harmful compounds being formed with chlorine. In the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, water is supplied without added chlorine as long as there is protection of the sources, good purification and good maintenance of the distribution system. Multiple steps and treatments are gone through with regard to water purification, such as sand filtration, ozone treatment, carbon treatment, filtration through special membranes and treatment with ultraviolet light. If one of these elements or steps is missing or is not managed correctly, disinfectants are added to the water.

U can *EASILY* install an RO system even in apt and you don't even need to be a plumber. Trust me. I did it myself and it wasn't hard at all.

@@lil----lil did you get the landlord to pay for it?

@@AKT0B0S NO. The beauty is that you can EASILY take the whole system with you when you move. The *MOST* important thing is to KEEP All the original hose/nuts/washer/ INTACT in a bag RIGHT under the sink and just put them back the way it was when you move. (TAKE A FEW PICTURES) of before and after!

There are also ones that don’t require plumbing but you have to refill their reservoir and empty the wastewater bin as you use them.

Looking up your water by zipcode is less than effective. For example, in my zip code there's 10 different water districts all using different water sources. You have to look up your water provider specifically and see if they have done said testing.

@@DoctorKnox: Thanks. Since I rent & water is prrovided by the landlord, IDK how to do that. Any suggestions?

@@Provocateur3 Ask your neighbors who the water provider is, or ask your landlord.

It depends on the contaminants and the specific filter. Something like a Brita will filter out 78% of contaminants but it won't filter PFAS, Argichemicals, and more. All those consumer targeted carbon based filters are going to leave a lot in your water. You really want a reverse osmosis system, which is the best filtration method we have right now. That will remove 99.5% of all contaminants. With RO you can also install a UV system and a re-mineralization filter to add back in beneficial minerals to your taste preferences. The vast majority of bottled water producers use Reverse Osmosis due to this reason. You could also evaporate and condense your water which is pretty effective but it's not nearly as cost efficient as Reverse Osmosis.

@@giglioflex The UV system is only necessary if you have issues with microorganisms, which, as long as your distribution system is carrying a chlorine residual, you likely don't. Besides, reverse osmosis is a hammer when you probably only have quality issues with a few things. Also, granular activated carbon can sorb a lot of these substances anyway, or for specific contaminants, ion exchange resins. RO is not the only solution, and calling it "cost efficient" is sort of a misnomer when it's already one of the most expensive forms of treatment we have used only by small municipalities and pilot plants. Citation on the sorbing thing: www.epa.gov/sciencematters/reducing-pfas-drinking-water-treatment-technologies

Each filter for each specific contaminant, thats why most decent water purifier has anywhere between 3 to 6 different filters. I change mine every few months and considering how brown they looks each time i would say the water i drink is definitely better

Need to improve the status quo. Most companies & employees are just trying to get the job done.

TLDR: It's probably safe, but also maybe not safe

it also depends heavily on state and neighborhood. It's safe in my town, but the next town over people are scared to drink the tap water.

I would NOT drink unfiltered tap water.

⁠same. I agree

it's really not safe at all! If you don't want to research it properly, then at least watch some movies on it, such as dark waters or Erin Brockovich

Did you get your tetanus shots?

The US has given Ukraine $75 billion worth of ordinance and cash in total, a large portion of which goes back to the US. That's in total over multiple years to boot. Compare that to the US Defense spending, which totals $885 billion per year. Out of all the things you named in which the US spends money on, you picked one of the least wasteful ones and ignore the fact that US defense contracters like Lockheed and Boeing are upcharging the military 3-10 times the price. But yes, let's criticize the tiny amount sent to Ukraine, who's driving demand for US jobs and military gear and hedging the world against a psychotic dictator.

​@@giglioflexhows the kool aid

​@@memesupreme3961fr this dude is skokin good shii.

​@@giglioflexmaybe we could sell it to ukraine instead of giving it away😮

You're absolutely right. It's important to consider the context and specific location when discussing water quality, as it can vary greatly within a state like Alabama. Factors like economic disparities, infrastructure investments, and environmental regulations all play a role in determining the quality of tap water available to different communities.

Generally better water comes from rural areas. In rural areas they generally get water from springs or groundwater. These two sources are normally better quality than the surface water from reservoirs necessary to supply larger urban communities. It's not about race, it's about where people live.

@@DoctorKnox it can be both you know. Yes, uncontaminated groundwater is likely going to be better, but that doesn't mean there's not a huge variation between rich & poor areas on surface water, does it

@@lilaclizard4504 I'm not sure you understand that poor areas and rich areas usually have the same water. So no, it's wrong. You don't have different watet treatment systems for different housing areas.

@@lilaclizard4504 I will give examples that I know of personally. Modesto, Ca is serviced by one water system. It's a city of 350,000 people, rich communities and poor communities, all on the same MID water.

As someone who works with utilities that would be a absolutely horrible idea for what should be obvious reasons. Water and electricity don't mix keep them away from each other lol

Standardizing a walkable utility tunnel that fits all these pipes might help, but then you're constantly patrolling it for intruders too.

I just posted the same thing. I was shocked at how worthless and false sense of security brita filters are. You’re almost better off not using them. 😂

which of the 300 islands & 500 islets was that from? I'm guessing Suva? Ever been there? Suva's water is clearly polluted, but the rest of Fiji that I've seen is beautiful & crystal clear & certainly less polluted than anywhere in the US (except maybe some of the Pacific Islands or parts of Alaska) Statistics can be made to tell any story you want them to!

@@lilaclizard4504 There's a bottled water brand called Fiji

Oh. I don't think I should either.

Can vouch that Brita water tastes exactly the same as tap.

Hey man! It's me, your kidneys! Can you do me a solid and start mixing a little H2O into your drinking regimen? It's just that I'm getting really tired doing all this filtration and it'd sure be nice to get a break! Thanks!

@@rainkloud my what?

​@@Pr0toPoTaT0its your place where beer goes...🥴 that isnt in the fridge lol

Well tap water is what comes out of the faucet.

I wouldn't faucet that. 😁

Tap is the British word while Faucet is the American word, however the phase “Faucet water” never became accepted so they adopted the British phase “tap water”.

In the context of the video, it's the same. You could make a further distinction between city/municipality provided water vs. well water (more common in rural areas and often serves a single home).

@@airtioteclint 😁

not all, I remember on a school camp many years ago, we travelled about 1-2 hours from the city & had to hike for 3 days & the only source of water that we didn't want to carry was a creek in the bush - that had been tested & established to be completely safe for drinking, even for private school kids. It's not just our tap water that's safe to drink, all our water is safer than theirs. I remember too a while back hearing people on a prepping channel talking about how any container that had come into contact with floodwaters had to be thrown away & any food inside it was inedible, due to chemical contamination that had got onto it during the flooding & that could not be removed & made it too dangerous to consume. We're told not to drink floodwaters in Australia, but certainly not told stuff like that! We don't have massive amounts of toxic chemicals escaping into water everywhere in Australia! We have PROPER waste disposal for chemicals etc

​@@lilaclizard4504Flood can bring up sewage water which is hazardous wherever you are in the world. I imagine Aus does better than most with its low density population though.

@@RJRJ sewerage can easily be washed off or containers dunked in bleach though, the prepper channels advised that that measure was inadequate to make the food inside the sealed tin safe to eat, due to the slight contamination that would occur around the opening & how toxic flood waters are in their country. Sewerage was exactly what I thought the contamination was refering to & therefore what I was focusing on suggestions as to managing, such as dunking containers in bleach to sterilise before opening. Their conserns related to agricultural chemicals & industrial chemicals mostly, but also pointed out the amount of chemicals in homes etc, whereas in Australia, we have free chemical drop off centres for all household waste we want to dispose of & are encouraged to use them as soon as we have finished any particular project, so as to safely dispose of remains, as well as disposing of things like used batteries, car oil after changes etc Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world btw, with much higher population densities than countries like the US in areas that are actually habitable. Floods in the outback aren't even considered in terms of food safety. A few years back we had an area the size of Germany & France combined under 1 metre of water, MASSIVE loss of cattle & wildlife, but humans in those areas use helicopters & personal planes as their usual transport to get groceries & everything else, so the handful living in that area just flew out of the affected area before the flooding reached a problem level if their accomedation wasn't already on high enough ground not to be a problem. Those floodwaters then flowed south for 8 months, systematically flooding huge areas of the country, but with ample notice for anyone who wanted to evacuate. More recently the outback suffered severe flooding that cut all roads & rail between east & west, but again, no people directly flooded, towns were already on higher ground, military did have to fly fresh produce in repeatedly though, cause people in some of those towns were too spoilt & started driving through floodwaters to get toiletpaper & fresh veggies, instead of eating canned ones, like people in those areas traditionally would, so government figured it was easier just to fly the supplies in to stop the sillyness, just flew them directly to town stores (stores made standard orders for what they wanted) & let the stores sell the goods as usual. The flooding with food being eaten or thrown away was when the entire east coast went under 50 feet of water, with almost half the entire population of the country being impacted by the flooding event (started at Brisbane & then made it's way down the coast, hitting all towns between there & Sydney & then after taking out Sydney, continuing down the coast, hitting all further coastal towns until it dropped off the bottom of the mainland). Note, not all of the 5 million people in Sydney were under 50 feet of water, but all were impacted to some extent, same with Brisbane's 2.6 million people