I just never reflected on the idea that cold tap water in summer is quite luxurious. I have that but I have no idea why tbh.

Indeed. Having living in SE Asia where you can drink the tap water, it’s rough getting a glass of water from the tap and it’s 25C.

There is no “cold” tap, just warm and hot taps.

> SE Asia where you can drink the tap water

A very verbose way of saying Singapore.

Your way is more verbose, by two characters to be exact.

You can drink it other countries! It's risky, but you can drink it!

Taiwan, Japan, Singapore. Only countries you can safely drink tap water in Asia AFAIK.

Also South Korea, Brunei and Hong Kong (apparently).

But I have friends who rinse their mouth, brush with tap water in Vietnam and haven't gotten sick. It obviously varies a lot by which city (or even within the city), but the water is tested and obviously highly chlorinated (by smell).

I mean, I wouldn't drink it regularly because I don't think they look for non-biologic toxins like metals.

I've rinsed my mouth in most countries in SEA. But never drink it. In Taiwan you can drink tap water but vast majority of people boil it because apparently alot of the pipes in homes are old so they boil it first. Sometimes I'm lazy and don't want warm water so I just fill my bottle with tap water.

In Arizona, "cold" water at the tap can easily be in the neighborhood of 100F/37C all summer. We kept a water filter pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, so it wasn't really a problem there, but it did make it impossible to take a truly cool shower or follow a recipe that instructs you to rinse something in cold water.

I grew up in AZ.. just run the water until it cools down. Unless your showering from an outside hose it'll be 50 degrees just from being underground. If you aren't getting that then something is very wrong with your plumbing I'd recon. Like, the tap intake comes into the house after the swap cooler on the roof kind of thing. Plus the evap after the shower.. that'll cool you off.

You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.

Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.

Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers.

Also you’ll notice no water towers.

And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

> Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers.

Not as part of the “to tap” process.

> Also you’ll notice no water towers.

Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals.

> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.

>> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

>Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.

If you can't even get the spelling of a major city in Arizona correct, your content is... as the kids like to say, "sus".

You’re still struggling to grasp any of the content. Your whole reply is only focused the response to your unrelated spelling dunk.

Having such superficial interactions with the world is congruent with believing the meme that all of Arizona drinks well water though.

I hope you do take some time some day to learn about the state you grew up in. The water projects are quite impressive engineering because there is no other option. The rural holdouts that pumped their groundwater dry learned that lesson the hard way.

Look dude it is you who doesn't understand how it works, at least as far as it concerns Tucson: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32a... https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf

They tried "to the tap" and it pissed everyone off because the river water leeched out all of the rust in people's pipes.

Water lines in Arizona single family homes are very commonly routed through the attic, where they can get very hot, so your imagined scenario isn't really that far off from reality for a lot of people.

I don't know how many gallons I would have to waste to get the tap to start delivering water at 50°F. I could run the faucet for several minutes and still get water that was body temperature or warmer.

> Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)!

It's prepared at 100C, and _may_ be served at 100C, but it does not enter your body at 100C or you will burn your mouth.

> But it's perfectly drinkable at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap. The water supply in my locality comes from a surface reservoir, leading to the higher summer temperatures.

It may be drinkable, but temperatures above 25C will be a cesspit for legionella.