Do you drink water straight from the tap?

Drink tap water is not safe for your health

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), all drinking water (including bottled water) may reasonably be expected to contain small amounts of some contaminants. But even if contaminants are present, that doesn’t necessarily mean the water you’re drinking poses any health risk. The EPA sets legally enforceable standards known as National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs), which limit the levels of contaminants from industrial chemicals, bacteria and parasites, fertilizers, and other potentially harmful sources in drinking water.

I never drink from the tap. Always filtered or bottled. On the same subject, I have some friends who will stick their head under and literally drink straight from the tap. It's disgusting.

i use a water bottle but yeah, water's pretty clean here and the fridge makes it too cold for my teeth anyway.

I drink from the tap, my tap water is fine.

On the other hand, every rural Maryland school I've ever been to has a warning over every drinking fountain that the water has too much lead in it for pregnant women and infants. The water always tastes awful too.

Lol fuck no. I used to live in Rural Georgia and the fucking water isn't clean normally let alone the nonstop boil water notices. I live in a city now, but still, all my tap has to be filtered wont risk that shit.

My water is normal in color and no odor. Only the taste is iron. Very faint. Almost can not be felt. When boiling the water smells like iron, but if you boil for about 5 minutes the smell is lost. So there's an overabundance of something, but it's not strong.

Not entirely sure why this post is still floating around, but my tap water is pretty good. It doesn't taste the best and is very very hard water, but the minerals are good for you I guess and it passes all US water regulations without trouble.

I add a little bit of lemon juice to the water and it goes from drinkable to chugging a full pint delicious.

At home I drink water straight from the tap. In public bathrooms or when I'm visiting someone and their place seems rather unclean, I don't. Also, no matter where you're doing it, don't be a monster who puts their mouth on the tap.

German here, by the way. Our drinking water is the most supervised, well-controlled substance on earth, with weapons-grade plutonium coming in second. So there's really no reason not to drink tap water.

I mainly drink from a Berkey filter, but I live in NYC and the tap water is pretty great, so I'll have that if the filter's empty for whatever reason. The purified water does taste marginally better, especially for tea, coffee it's harder to tell a difference.

Arizona water is.... sketchy at best. Recently it was identified that Arizona city water had large amounts of contaminates in it for years. Air force bases in the past used to dump jet fuel and chemicals near residential water supplies. Same goes with Southern California since they actually use Arizona's water. Filtered or bottled for me.

No man, I don't drink water until it get purified from some process....

Tap water always tastes different to me, not sure if it's just me and my tongue's problems though. I'll still prefer bottled or filtered water if they are available.