Re: OT: Sturgeon General warns even moderate drinking causes cancer

On 2025-01-07 05:55:01 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 09:43:33 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

 "Fresh mountain water" is full of minerals and compounds collected on
it's travels downstream that will be bad for you if drank to excess.
Even if it was 100% pure water, it will still be bad for you to drink
too much of it.

 â€œRunning water is always safe to drink“ – Clod Reamer

Yes, because it keeps being replaced by new, fresher water, unlike a still pool that stagnates and accumulates all sorts of debris.
But running water still has all sorts of stuff in it. Mostly it's harmless, small quantities of minerals, dirt, etc., so is usually safe to drink ...  unless of course that "running water" is coming from the waste water pipes of the local sewerage works, abattoir, or similar.  ;-)
There's no such thing as "100% pure water", no matter what the marketing departments of silly water purifiers like to claim in their adverts. Even the frozen water in Antarctica is full of generations of penguin poo.

Well sure - you need to drink water (or some other liquid) every day.
 Immersing yourself in 4 cubic meters of it (about the size of your
typical elevator booth) is likely to drown you.