It seems like you would get pretty nasty germs happily living in our plumbing (especially untreated well water).
I think about the water that can sit for prolonged periods in hot water tanks, stagnant water in dead end sections of the plumbing system (unused outside faucet etc), and the wet oxygen rich environment inside the faucet ends.
Yet you almost never hear about people getting sick from their water🤷🏽♂️
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Of the millions of types of bacteria, there are only a few dangerous to humans. Mostly bacteria are beneficial to us, or at least neutral. Most people forget that, and think all bacteria are “bad germs”.
Plus the water is full of them.
Of the dangerous ones, the further they are from the human body, the sooner they die. Water in a pipe isn’t a good environment for them to live in, as there is little food and heat.
And just to fuck your shit up, the bad ones, such as cholera, mrsa, staph, salmonella, e-coli, anthrax, tb etc arent killed by bleach, anti-bacterial cleaning products, hand gel, soap, etc.
They are killed with heat, UV and stuff you simply don’t have access to.
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