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94% of Tap Water in the U.S. Is Contaminated by Microplastics

22 points| boplicity | 3 years ago |time.com

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[+] glyphosate|3 years ago|reply
Our water, like much of our food, is poisonous. Though at low enough levels that it can take years or decades before the chronic health problems begin to show up.

The CDC recently found in a study that ~80% of people have glyphosate in their urine.

[+] sparker72678|3 years ago|reply
These scaremongering articles about "X is Contaminated by Y" are so tiring.

With the sensitivity of today's testing tools, you can find at least a trace of absolutely anything in tap water if you want to.

And sure, we should study the impact of microplastics on human health in more detail. But these hysterical titles... ugh.

Buy an RO system for your drinking water at home if you're worried. At the very least it'll taste better than the tap.

[+] leobg|3 years ago|reply
Tangentially: What is a water filtering system that you are personally using and can recommend?

Am thinking here about microplastics, FPOA, drug residues...

[+] thenoblesquid|3 years ago|reply
Do standard water filters (like Brita) have any ability to filter out microplastics or are they too micro?
[+] Havoc|3 years ago|reply
Not to my knowledge no

They also make no claims that it does & if it did I'd imagine their marketing dept would be all over that

Definitely noticed tangible changes on limescale levels though, so it does seem to filter that well

[+] TurkishPoptart|3 years ago|reply
I stopped drinking tap water when I learned about the whole fluoride thing.
[+] standyro|3 years ago|reply
What water do you drink? A lot of bottled water comes from tax supported municipal water sources through water rights loopholes, so you could be paying more just to drink similar water.

Unfortunately, I feel like this comment encapsulates the current state of the western world in a nutshell:

Let’s build a new complex system around bottling plastic, delivery trucks, with competing brands for sale at 10x the price instead of publicly maintained aqueducts and pipes that have been used successfully since Roman times, and advocating for rigorous standards and fixing issues at the source.

Bottling water doesn’t scale and has significantly more waste (C02 from trucking diesel exhaust and plastic)

[+] skyyler|3 years ago|reply
What's the problem with fluoride?