This Frightening New Study Will Make You Stop Drinking Tap Water.
And yet, new research has found that it may also be a serious problem.
A study conducted by Macquarie University found Australian household tap water is frighteningly contaminated.
In other words, the water you’d use to fill your kettle first thing in for a morning cuppa or baby formula.
But it begs the question: should we be allowing any at all?
If we’re sticking to our 2-3 liters per day, it’s a large amount of lead and copper to accumulate in the body, which can have adverse effects on our health.
“As the sampling of household water took place across NSW, the widespread distribution of samples with elevated copper and lead concentrations demonstrates that this is not a spatially-isolated problem, and that domestic supplies across Australia are likely to be subject to similar issues,” Harvey says.
“There is a significant health risk associated with consumers, particularly infants consuming formula and pregnant women.” The high use of lead in pipelines across Australia is cause for concern for all household tap water.
Plus, it doesn’t hurt that it has a minimal, sleek design to compliment our HQ and offers boiling, chilled and even sparkling water on-demand.
“Sparkling or tap?” We have both.