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Yes, NJ tap water is safe to drink, although if a municipal employee--like one in New Brunswick did for 3+ years--decides to ignore high contaminant levels, the risk does increase to some extent:
I took a tube of water and sent it off to a lab for analysis and it came back Safe. It is definitely fluoride added water. If you have any doubts about your local water supply go buy a water testing kit, it costs only $20 and you get the results in a month.
I took a tube of water and sent it off to a lab for analysis and it came back Safe. It is definitely fluoride added water. If you have any doubts about your local water supply go buy a water testing kit, it costs only $20 and you get the results in a month.
Good info.
I usually just drink the water, and if I don't die, I figure it's good.
Yes, NJ tap water is safe to drink, although if a municipal employee--like one in New Brunswick did for 3+ years--decides to ignore high contaminant levels, the risk does increase to some extent:
Things happen. What's notable here? That they were eventually discovered because they were a violation of the regulations in place.
However, bottled water does not require certified lab testing, does not require reporting of violations of water standards when they are found and does not require reporting where the water comes from or what contaminants are in it.
If you believe the corporations in charge of such bottled water companies are saints who produce perfect products in spite of lax regulation allowing them to get away with not doing so, I have a bridge to sell you.
You just don't hear about issues like this in bottled water not because they don't happen, but because no one is testing it and they don't have to provide any information on what's in it. The stuff in the bottle can have all those sorts of problems, you'll never know.
If you believe the corporations in charge of such bottled water companies are saints who produce perfect products in spite of lax regulation allowing them to get away with not doing so, I have a bridge to sell you.
How did you manage to get that meaning from what I posted?
I said absolutely nothing about bottled water, and I stated that NJ tap water is safe to drink.
How could you possibly have come up with that interpretation of what I wrote?
Just about everyone I know buys bottled water including myself. I even go as far as cooking with bottled water but over time, this can be expensive not to mention not good for the environment.
Too bad we don't trust the tap water here. Should we trust the water here more?
This is what happens when one abandons rationality in favor of mystical emotionalism. Let's not do that.
Many studies show that filtered tap water is cleaner than bottled water and vice versa. It's inconclusive. As long as you have a filter on your water dispenser, you'll be fine.
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