<story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.&lt;p&gt;Worse... it&amp;#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Tap water in the developed world is really really good. You can measure a country by the ability of that nation to provide clean water to people. Municipal water supplies in cities like Atlanta and Cincinnati are often tested 200~300 times per month at several pumping and maintenance locations. Bottled water is a scam, and it also is a resources that&amp;#x27;s often extracted from poor countries and communities.&lt;p&gt;The documentary Tapped and Blue Gold both go into all the screwed up thing the bottle water industry does. For countries without clean water, bottled water is not the solution. Better municipal water, more wells and cheaper, low energy water purification around those wells is a much more sustainable solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.&lt;p&gt;Worse... it&amp;#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>groby_b</author><text>Well, for microplastics.&lt;p&gt;If you live e.g. in the Bay Area, your tap water instead has a good chance of having a good helping of hexavalent chromium[1], which... not too healthy. (Neither are arsenic, bromium, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Pick your poison. Literally.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Tap-water-Bay-Area-database-contaminants-study-11510434.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Tap-water-Bay-Area-datab...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>