Video footage shows the differences between tap water in the US and that in the UK, and it makes for some pretty horrifying viewing.
A vast amount of infrastructure and technology goes into us simply being able to turn a handle and access clean drinking water, one of the front lines against disease.
However, as a video posted to TikTok shows, ‘safe for drinking’ definitely does not mean ‘completely devoid of life’.
Placing a sample of tap water from the US and the UK under a microscope revealed the surprising number of microscopic organisms which make a home in the tap water.