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whenever i went to a restaurant and they served us water my parents would always tell me not to drink it because they knew it was tap water. so i always lived thinking that tap water is bad, unsanitary, and dangerous to consume. this video has changed my whole perspective; i never knew that in some cases tap water is cleaner than bottled water or that the mountains on the labels of some bottled water brands are pure fiction!

what surprised me the most was the fact that when i recycle my water bottles that they just go to the backyards of people in india. my mom and i would always collect all our water bottle and take them to a recycling depot on the weekends, i remember sorting the bottles and as a reward my mom would let me keep the money

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