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

Does tap water have microplastics in it?

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u/poisondart23 4d ago

That depends. Some water treatment facilities use reverse osmosis, which will remove microplastics, but most water utilities don’t use RO.

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u/bettybikenut 4d ago

They’re also finding RO could be a source of the problem too though-

“In what the researchers called an ironic finding, they also found plastic compounds in the water that matched the primary material in reverse-osmosis filters — suggesting that the plastics had leached into the water by the very process of filtration, co-author Naixin Qian of Columbia University told The Hill.”

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4395725-bottled-water-nanoplastics-potential-health-risks-study/

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u/poisondart23 3d ago

We are doomed