Is it possible to pour hot water from the tap into the kettle
Miscellaneous / / August 04, 2023
The answer will most likely surprise you.
When you need to quickly heat water, for example for tea or coffee, you often want to fill the kettle with hot water right away. After all, this way it will boil much faster and it will be possible to prepare a drink in a minute. But many are afraid to pour water from a hot tap, as they are sure that it contains some harmful impurities, is "technical" and undrinkable.
In fact, high demands are placed on tap water. She must be high quality and safe for health. Water is considered drinking water if it meets certain microbiological, parasitological and virological parameters, as well as chemical and radiological standards.
Olga Bagryantseva
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Leading Researcher, Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology”.
The hot water from the tap in our kitchen is warmed cold drinking water. Therefore, it, of course, can be poured into a teapot.
The quality of tap water that enters the house is regularly monitored. Samples for testing water that comes from underground sources,
take away at least 4 times a year (each season), from surface - 12 times a year (every month). At the same time, in large cities of Russia, the number of points where samples are taken can achieve 200 or more.According to statistics Rospotrebnadzor, the quality of drinking tap water has improved over the past 10 years. The number of water samples that do not meet hygienic standards for sanitary and chemical indicators, decreased from 16 to 12%, according to microbiological indicators - from 4 to 2%, according to parasitological - from 0.13 to 0,07%.
Of course, sometimes the quality of drinking water can deteriorate, for example during spring floods. To prevent this, wastewater treatment plants may increase the amount of disinfectants. Because of them, an uncharacteristic smell appears in the water, but this does not affect its quality in any way. The more common reason why from the tap low-quality water flows - worn pipes and accidents.
Olga Bagryantseva
During periods of accidents and in the event of an unsatisfactory condition of the water supply networks, both cold and hot tap water should not be poured into the kettle.
Therefore, if no accident has happened and you have clean cold water coming out of the tap, then everything is in order with hot water. It can be poured into the kettle, if its manufacturer does not directly prohibit this in the instructions.
If you doubt the quality of tap water at home, you can check it on the map federal project "Clean Water".
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