Should cities seperate drinking water from washing water?

That would require 2 sets of water pipes. Not feasible.

They would have to build new water pipes literally everywhere/replace all the existing pipes. The cost for this would be astronomical.

Loli, I’m quicker.

@Hawaii_Jake @ragingloli What about adding fluoride from the home instead of putting it in all the water supply? That way you get to choose if how much fluoride is in your taps and what taps are fluoridated? I wonder if watering the grass with fluoride laced water Is healthy for the grass?

Why on earth would you want lower fluorine for dishes, bathing and laundry?

@Dutchess_III Fluoride is used to protect your teeth. It is not needed for bathing. I don’t know how expensive fluoride Is , but removing it for non drinking water would save money.

Save money for whom?

@Dutchess_III The city’s water bill and passed on to tax payers.

But what is the expense to you for installing a separate system for each of the taps?

@Dutchess_III Should be cheap. Just slap on a reverse filter on the one tap. Fill once a year. Also if you want you could skip that step and have the freedom to not have fluoridated water.

Do you mean like a revers osmosis filter? I have one. I use it for when I need to add water to my fishtank. I paid 150 for it and it outputs 10 gallons a day. Oh, and it produces wastewater. For 10 gallons of RO water I dump around 15 gallons of waste water.

You can get ones that put out enough water to get a good shower. We had one for the soda machine at the theater. It was about the size of a twin mattress pressed against the wall. The pump used a lot of electricity and replacing the filters is expensive.

The funny thing is they are somewhat reasonable if you want to hook one up to your kitchen sink for drinking water. I’m not sure if it would be reasonable to have one on your shower if you give a shit about water pressure.

I think we need to worry about getting the lead out first.

We seem to have graduated from First World problems to Fantasy World problems.

The cost of adding flouride to municipal water systems is not very high. (I’ve included a statement from the Connecticut MDC, who supplies my water.) The cost to add (and maintain) redundant water systems is very significant.

The idea of enabling individual / family addition of flouride is also problematic, as too much flouride would be toxic, so that’s not going to be a normal thing. (If you want to add flouride to your own water – such as if you have well water, for example, then you could do that, but no one will accept the commercial risk of selling you such a system, because it puts them at tremendous risk for relatively minor gain. You won’t find any sensible business person who will do that.)

No. All tap water should be fluoride free.

Get a filter @MollyMcGuire. It’s kind of like abortion. If you are against it, don’t get one. If you’re against same sex marriage, don’t marry someone of your gender.
Don’t tell the rest of the world what they should be allowed access to. I believe it helps a great deal with cavity protection.

@Dutchess_III You can’t filter out fluoride. It’s a poison we don’t need. If your teeth need fluoride, buy a fluoride rinse; don’t force everyone to ingest fluoride.

Yes you can. And trace amounts of fluoride won’t hurt you, any more than ingesting trace amounts of toxins from vegetables in the nightshade family.

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