Drinking water from the tap is environmentally friendly (less greenhouse gas emissions and waste) and cost-effective.
But how good is the water in Europe when thresholds for certain pollutants such as lead and bacteria are being tightened by the EU and endocrine substances and pharmaceuticals in water must be monitored more closely?
Endocrine substances? So hormones? Pharmaceuticals (medicines & vaccine residues), bacteria and viruses in water?
Yes, you read that right.
Even if the EU is always trying to improve water quality, it does not deny that bacteria and other pollutants are circulating and that water quality varies from country to country.
A Europe-wide public survey found that despite the high quality standards in Europe, many people are unsure whether they should drink tap water. Only 50% of respondents said they drink water straight from the tap. 80% find drinking water outside their country unacceptable. 40% feel poorly informed about the quality of their drinking water.
Tap water and possible dangers ……Impossible in Europe? Impossible in my country?
94.46% of those surveyed in Austria found the drinking water quality to be good.
The drinking water in Vienna is among the best in Europe, as it is known to come directly from the Alps via high-altitude spring pipes.
And yet you can read in a reputable Austrian newspaper that the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna has imposed a ban on drinking tap water on site because bacteria were found in the drinking water. How does this happen?
Now imagine how the water flows to your home via the kilometer-long public drinking water network and the countless pipes. The following problems can arise:
- Hygienic deficiencies in the piping systems of buildings
- Old lead pipes
- The public piping system is partially in need of renovation
- Increasing lime content in drinking water
- Legionella in drinking water due to rising water temperature
Water has been drunk for this reason from copper containers in India for generations.
Due to the oligodynamic effect (i.e. the sterilizing effect of metals), water that has been in a copper vessel for 8 hours has the ability to destroy a variety of harmful microbes, molds, fungi, algae, spores, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms.
The oligodynamic effect has a toxic effect on living cells and thus enables energetic water.
Sources:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/de/article/20181011STO15887/trinkwasser-in-der-eu-bessere-qualitat-besserer-zugang
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1519213640335&uri=CELEX:52017SC0451
https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/0070b535-5a6c-4ee4-84ba-6f6eb1682556/Public%20Consultation%20Report.pdf
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000214278/legionellenbefall-in-wien-wie-gefaehrlich-sind-die-bakterien
(cf. Author: Dr.Manisha Nikam; Source name: A Review on Tamra Jal or Copperized Water Being Useful in Today’s Lifestyle; year:2020)
