Can water go bad just as how fresh food does?!


Question: Water will go bad with time. Municipal drinking water should be good for about 6 months, possibly a year. More than a century ago, people would drink weak beer rather than water. Water contained too many pathagons and could be a source for typhus, giordia, colera and many other diseases. During those times, water could go bad in just a couple days. Chlorine tends to keep those things at bay.


Answers: Water will go bad with time. Municipal drinking water should be good for about 6 months, possibly a year. More than a century ago, people would drink weak beer rather than water. Water contained too many pathagons and could be a source for typhus, giordia, colera and many other diseases. During those times, water could go bad in just a couple days. Chlorine tends to keep those things at bay.

yes, but it takes much longer

it doesn't necessarily go bad, it goes stale, losing all it's nutrients. you can technically still drink it, but it tastes really bad, and you don't get any dietary/nutritional value, since there's no vitamin/minerals in it.

Yeah it does but it takes awhile. I'm wondering if anybody I know ever drunk expired water. I am going to ask them.





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