can someone explain how tap water is safe to drink?

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Surely the many miles of underground pipes are a breeding ground for microbes, right?

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Underground pipes filled with water, generally flowing pretty fast, is a really bad breeding ground for most microorganism. There’s little food, little oxygen and no sunlight. Even before water treatment and modern sanitation underground aquaducts were generally considered the safest place to get water short of going to a spring yourself.

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