Is Tap Water Safe to Drink?

In this video, Brian discusses the potential health risks of tap water contaminants and explores solutions for improving water quality at home.

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⏰ Chapters ⏰
0:00 How Bad is Tap Water for Health?
0:47 PFAS
3:17 Microplastics
4:52 Disinfection Byproducts
6:55 Other VOCs
7:34 Pesticides, Herbicides, Fertilizers
8:53 Fluoride
9:48 Lead & Other Heavy Metals
10:51 Chromium 6
11:59 Water Hardness Minerals
12:34 The Problem With How Our Water is Regulated
15:59 What To Do About Your Water Quality

Studies & data referenced in this video (in order):

PFAS:
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in United States tap water: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37356...
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...
Research on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research...
What Are the Health Effects of PFAS? https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health...

Microplastics:
https://find.wqa.org/knowledge-base/u...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
https://orbmedia.org/invisibles-final...
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle...
https://www.undp.org/kosovo/blog/micr...

Disinfection Byproducts:
Recent progress in identification of water disinfection byproducts and opportunities for future research Assessing the Health Impact of Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acse...
Drinking water disinfection byproducts: review and approach to toxicity evaluation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10229...

Chromium-6:
Chromium-6 in U.S. Tap Water https://www.ewg.org/research/chromium...
TOXICOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS STUDIES OF SODIUM DICHROMATE DIHYDRATE https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/defau...
Chromium Compounds https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/fil...
Chromium 6 https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/reviewed...

VOCs:
Volatile Organic Compounds’ Impact on Indoor Air Quality https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-qualit...
VOCs in private drinking water wells https://www.crowwing.gov/DocumentCent...

Fluoride:
Is Fluoridated Drinking Water Safe? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine...
Does fluoride exposure affect thyroid function? A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38029...

Pesticides & herbicides:
Inclusion of Pesticide Transformation Products Is Key to Estimating Pesticide Exposures and Effects in Small U.S. Streams https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs....
Pesticide residues in drinking water, their potential risk to human health and removal options https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Nitrate:
Nitrate contaminates drinking water https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/nitrate-...
Drinking Water Nitrate and Human Health: An Updated Review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Lead and other heavy metals:
Exposure to lead: a major public health concern, 3rd edition https://www.who.int/publications/i/it...
Millions Served by Water Systems Detecting Lead
https://www.nrdc.org/resources/millio...
Arsenic https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
Mercury https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...

EPA National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-...

EWG Tap Water Database: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
Tap Score City Water Project: https://citywater.mytapscore.com/

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