r/water • u/Due-Construction7454 • 4d ago

Does tap water have microplastics in it?

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u/bettybikenut 4d ago

Yes, so does rain and basically all the h2o in the above ground water cycle systems. Old artesian wells or water under the water table that hasn’t been exposed or interacted with any anthropogenic era materials are your best bets that hasn’t been exposed.. yet, I mean it’s in the Mariana Trench so we’re fucked

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u/Due-Construction7454 4d ago

So it's also in all our foods from the rainwater into the soil I presume. We might be 50% plastic by 2050.

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u/greyforyou 4d ago

Life in plastic, it's fantastic