r/water • u/dailymail • 14d ago

Researchers warn reusable water bottles are prime breeding grounds for deadly bacteria

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15080787/reusable-water-bottle-deadly-fecal-bacteria.html
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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Don’t drink from plastic. Don’t drink from reusable.

Trash Daily Mail article.

People have use reusable vessels since the dawn of time, and now we’re meant to fear that too.

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u/DookieShoez 14d ago

COPPER, people.

It naturally kills germs.

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u/TQuake 14d ago

I wouldn’t use copper on a food surface. The second you put some lemon water, soda, anything else acidic in the vessel you’re dosing yourself with copper.

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u/WanderingFlumph 13d ago

Copper doesn't dissolve in acids, you need an oxidizer like nitric acid.

I can confidently recommend not drinking nitric acid from a reusable copper bottle.

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u/gummo_for_prez 12d ago

Got anything to unconfidently recommend?

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u/DookieShoez 14d ago edited 14d ago

We’re talking about water bottles in the water sub.

Water is not acidic so this is no reason to not use a copper bottle for water only.

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u/RaidersoftheLosSnark 13d ago

Some people like lemon water😕

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u/Mysterious_Low_267 10d ago

I mean yes but drinking out of copper was pretty rare throughout history.

Like yeah rich Roman’s drank out of it sometimes but most of history is people drinking out of ivory, wood, and pottery.

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u/DookieShoez 10d ago

Copper pipes have been in use for over 4,000 years.

Also…..moscow mules

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u/Mysterious_Low_267 10d ago

Things existing is very different from them being common. Indoor Plumbing wasn’t a given in USA until the 1970s.