Absolutely not something to be given for granted.
Shoutout to u/UnusualInstance6 on Reddit
I live in a small village in the south of France. Tap water is brown sometimes. I dare you to drink that crap.
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You can limit your microplastic exposure by 90% by drinking tap water.
Does that 100 score in America include Flint, Michigan?
It might. It took years and hundreds of millions of dollars to fix, but they did clean up Flint's water system.
The EPI measures water quality in terms of “age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water”
Not just Michigan with lead in their water pipes
The impact of lead on neurodevelopmental effects in children even at low levels of exposure is well established. Population and toxicokinetic modeling studies have found a clear relationship between water lead levels and blood lead levels in children at low levels of lead in drinking water
The IARC classes lead as a probable human carcinogen. Lead damages the nervous system and can lead to reproductive problems.
It sounds like lead in water pipes isn't directly lethal so that would explain why they don't count it in the numbers from that site
The definition on that website sounds like they just count people dying as direct result of the water (Ex dysentery)
The link and title of the webpage talk about water quality, but further down they argue only about the safety of water: "According to the DALY scale, a score of 100 indicates countries with the purest and least-contaminated water", but to be honest I rather drink slightly unsafe water that tastes natural over supersafe water that taste like thinned bleach lol
i don't think anyone drinks soda because the tap water is bad
people drink soda because mmmmm yummy yummy yummmmmm
Totally, but good tap water makes it a lot easier to drink less soda. And water is good gooodd gooodddyyyy 🤩
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/why-is-water-important