- if you go to lowes, many of the fittings for hot water pipes are made of lead
- my cold water supply doesn't sit in a big 50+ gallon tub for 1-2 days at a time (I don't think we fully empty it but every other day, on kid bath night)
- old hot water heaters will fill with sediments and other buildup
So like, on a scale of drinking sewage to drinking dew collected from the leaves of Yggdrasil? It's probably about the same as drinking (cold) tap water. But also like, given a choice, I'll probably go for the cold tap.
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Do you have a source for this?
I don't know about sources, but I do know:
- if you go to lowes, many of the fittings for hot water pipes are made of lead
- my cold water supply doesn't sit in a big 50+ gallon tub for 1-2 days at a time (I don't think we fully empty it but every other day, on kid bath night)
- old hot water heaters will fill with sediments and other buildup
So like, on a scale of drinking sewage to drinking dew collected from the leaves of Yggdrasil? It's probably about the same as drinking (cold) tap water. But also like, given a choice, I'll probably go for the cold tap.
Lowes sells supply line hot water pipes/fittings made of lead? Are you certain?
Probably https://www.epa.gov/lead/why-cant-i-use-hot-water-tap-drinki...
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/21471/is-hot-tap... has some more sources