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Is bathroom water safe to drink?

Writer Robert King

So can you safely consume the tap water in the bathroom, Most likely not. It’s not likely to cause harm, but drinking water that’s clean coming from the faucet in the kitchen is a superior choice. If you’re more likely to need to drink a glass of water in the evening you might want to keep an unopened bottle of tap water from the kitchen at your table.

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It’s 3 am and you’ve just woken with a mouth that’s dry as the Atacama Desert. It’s time to take a sip or two of fluid, however, are you sure you go down to the kitchen, or should your fill-up the tap in the bathroom. I was taught in my early years to believe that the sole water safe to drink was the cold water coming from the tap in the kitchen.

The occasional glass of water in your bathroom won’t cause anyone any harm if you apply it to your teeth you think. The bathroom is probably not the most reliable source of drinking water. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of drinking water from the faucet in the bathroom in your house You may be aware that the water you drink in the bathroom smells a bit different than the water in your kitchen and can be slightly higher temperature. However, you are drinking that water you drink to clean your teeth each morning a good idea.

Based on studies conducted at Brunel University, London, every time you sip a healthy drinking glass of water from the tap you may accidentally drink the smallest amount of the medication of others. The reason for this is because today’s medications are long-lasting and stable. Even though the amount of this drink within tap water can be constant, a substantial amount of the prescribed medications individuals excrete is released in the form of wastewater. In the end, a portion of these drugs – though they are in extremely low doses are re-introduced into the supply of domestic water similarly, through the system of sewage treatment. This issue is not limited to water from the tap. In Israel, scientists conducted tests on the urine of people drinking crops that were irrigated using treated water.