[Havoc]

Recently I ended up in a debate (on 9Gag of all places) about how clean tap water is in different countries. And one thing that always amazes me is that many places in the US add chlorine and/or fluoride to the drinking water supply and think this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. There are places where you can open your kitchen faucet and you'll instantly think you're in a swimming pool. And people drink that shit. Not to mention fluoride... Almost every state in the US adds fluoride to the water supply for the sole purpose of keeping peoples teeth in good condition.

I can understand fluoride MAYBE back in like the 30's when dental care products weren't as sophisticated as they are today, but come on. People brush their teeth, there's like a million different kinds of toothpaste out there, most of them containing fluoride. It's in food, it's in drinks. But at the end of the day that stuff is toxic and it doesn't really take that much to die from. Drinking water, by definition, should be free of toxins as much as realistically possible and here there are people purposefully adding it. Same thing for chlorine. We live in 2016 and there have been alternate methods of cleaning drinking water for decades.

What baffles me is that people are defending this as if it's the most normal thing in the world to add not one, but TWO toxic chemicals to the drinking water supply...

For reference, us Dutchies, the kings and queens of anything water related, do not add chlorine to our water. It's forbidden by law for water companies to do this, and our water is some of the cleanest I've ever tasted safe for water that comes directly from springs (i.e Iceland, but that water stinks of sulfer). Same goes for fluoride. And guess what, dental health around here is on par with any other Western country.

Water is one of your most basic human needs to survive and it should always be as clean and as pure as it can possibly be. Adding in chlorine and fucking fluoride is not healthy no matter what anyone says.