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submitted 10 months ago by Stamets to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Are we NOT drinking shower water now?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So in most homes I’ve been the piping organ water is all the same for toilets, showers and the kitchen.

So is there any difference from the water that comes out of a shower head? Or hell even the garden hose outside

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Garden hose is a bit different. Bacteria can get in through the hoses open end, and it's really hard to completely dry out the inside, so it's just a microbe fest inside there. The issue isn't so much the plumbing, straight from the spigot is... Well, still a bit worse because it's outside but should be ok. It's the hose that's the problem. Beyond that, yeah water in any tap inside should be essentially the same, barring filters after the plumbing.

Edit: just thought, some houses may use a grey water recycling system for, say, running the toilet and shower. I imagine that's rare enough that if it applies to you, you probably already know, but... Well, ya know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There is a slight issue…there was a time when a lot of spigots were made with brass containing high levels of lead.

The amount of exposure from infrequent, or even sparodic use over several year, is more than likely nothing to worry about though.

Even still, when shopping for a spigot, you’ve got to be careful. A lot are marked “Non-Potable Use” for that reason.

Also I feel something is gross about drinking from places we don’t usually drink from. Like we use different cleaning products there and we clean them less frequently, and they seem inferior to me as a result. Especially the bathroom sink. Like someone just pooped three feet away from it a couple hours ago and then touched the thing and uuuuuggggghhhh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I mean you should probably just drink from the normal tap if it's not inconvenient to do so, and I do get the ick factor. Just saying it probably isn't very different for any interior faucet, and only marginally so for an outside spigot.

[–] aphonefriend 2 points 10 months ago

My dog seems to think so