If you leave water in a ceramic, glass, or cup it will start to taste bad after a day or two, even if it’s covered with a lid. However, when we pour water out of a tap into a glass it will taste fine, even though it’s been sitting for days/months in a water reserve tank. Why is this the case?
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Water evaporates from the glass over time, potentially leaving a higher concentration of everything else (minerals, chlorine, etc…)
When exposed to air and light, the water in the glass can … well, grow stuff.
The water in the glass can absorb stuff from the air… dust, scents, etc…
So first off the water in your tap isn’t sitting around for months. It came pretty recently from a water treatment facility of some kind and stayed mostly sealed away from air and light and odors and dust until it got to your tap.
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