I loved drinking out of the hose and tap

[donnashuggy]

I was young and thirsty

What’s happened?

[imastawka]

[chameleon54]

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@donnashuggy wrote:
I was young and thirsty

What’s happened?

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Artesian water on the farm never tastes better than when fresh from the bore. Failing that the tap and hose in the farm garden is a great second best. The water is an aquired taste as it has a lot of calcium and other minerals in it. When I was a little kid, I only drank bore water and I had a lot less teeth cavities than my siblings who consumed rainwater from the tanks, filled from the house roof.

I can still remember my father cleaning out the rainwater tank during one of the terrible mouse plagues of the 1970,s. It put me off of rainwater for ever..

[twyngwyn]

It's dangerous...

https://www.thoughtco.com/is-it-safe-to-drink-hose-water-609429

[chameleon54]

Joe Jackson wrote a song about this exact topic.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDAkmfoAgA

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

The lead absorbed by drinking from a running hose is no more dangerous that the inhaled exhaust of pre-unleaded cars.

[marwi5023]

Whereas Benzene is highly carcinogenic and absolutely loaded into the atmosphere now and it's no wonder cancer is on the rise

[davidc4430]

at the old home we had the tastiest bore water ever.

but i have no trouble with drinking from the tap here or the hose in the garden.

[davidc4430 · Accepted solution]

how many smokers buy bottles of water to be safe?