Back in the day , drinking out the hose was just the way it was …. As a youngster , we had the scary park drinking taps and hoses from sears or ace hardware. Drank it , blasted neighbors dog with it , washed the old 70 firebird with it , goldfish shat in it , made ramen with it.
The hose isn’t the issue. It’s what has become of the water sources. Anyone crowing they have a “ complete clean water source “ is pretty much full of shit. Reports now state 94% of water samples from the United States contained microplastics , plus they break down to nanometer sizes , so now what ? Bottled water faired no difference either. Down to one-one thousandth of one-one thousandth of a millimeter. It is absorbed into lymph nodes as well as airborne particulates into body. It’s literally everywhere - studies began in the 1960’s but up to this point data was kinda buried.
Plastics have been burned , buried , recycled and tossed everywhere in environment. Even in desolate areas of Antarctica from some ice cores that are devoid of human activity.
A spiffy new hose means what to the product dumping from it ?
Water still fucked coming out of it.
I used to run “ food grade “ hempy containers but thought why ? There was the hazard of crystallized silica from perlite use , heavy metal components in nute lines , the ‘ water ‘ itself and other “ supplemental “ add ins. Sure the lawn gets it , cats drink it , shower with it - hard to face facts that everything has some sort of pollutant. That’s why I don’t even bother or hyper focus on RO system , because there are things bonded to the water that will never come out.
Not here to change anyone’s mind
Just my observation