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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure that’s a myth, everywhere I search I find reasons to not drink hot tap water:

    • The heated water may cause the plumbing to release harmful substances such as lead and nickel
    • Cold water is fresher. Hot water stays in the plumbing system for a longer period of time to get heated. Longer stagnation time in the system may cause higher bacterial levels
    • Hot water is exposed to more pollution sources since it passes through additional tanks or heating systems.
    • The level of microorganisms is higher in hot water plumbing

    From this page

    (PS : I’m talking about France, where I live, where we mainly use water tanks to heat and store hot water. Cold tap water is perfectly fine to drink, on the other hand.)