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Meme: Sad Pablo Escobar meme moping around

Caption: Me waiting for the hot water to reach the sink every morning

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're correct, but I just want to point out that it isn't advisable to drink or cook with water that comes from your hot water tank. Hot water can (and usually will) corrode metal parts from your tank and plumbing and can be contaminated by all sorts of nasty stuff that won't go away even if you boil the water first.

https://www.denverwater.org/tap/psa-dont-drink-or-cook-with-hot-water-from-the-tap?size=n_21_n

If you look it up on youtube, you can see for yourself the insane amount of crap that builds up inside a hot water tank over time. https://youtu.be/kAzKts6Wp1Q?si=UMPzHcIoSRdSgJ4g&t=88

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, gross, but therefore thanks for sharing!:-)

Man, even if you boil the water... that sounds no bueno... People act like humans live "better" lives than those from 100 years ago, as if well water wasn't fresher and cleaner than what crap we get out of our tap. Tbf, vaccines exist now and that's HUGE (well... for those that choose to take them), but in other ways we've gone backwards or at least sidewise rather than forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair a lot of wells didn't/don't have good water either but we were not very good at testing or noticing that kind of thing until people started dropping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It might be information overload but like... it seems hard to imagine people finding out that their wells were bad to drink from, and then simply deciding not to care. Though, that's probably naive and it's likely always been this way.