-Is it safe to drink tap water?

Is your tap water safe? Do you need a water filter? For answers, SHAPE turned to Dr. Kathleen McCarty , assistant professor at Yale University's School of Public Health, who's an expert in drinking water and human health effects and a consultant to the U.S. EPA on children’s health and drinking water contaminants. More

 - Truths about drinking water By Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD. 

According to the Institute of Medicine, women 19 and over need 2.7 liters of total fluid per day (about 11 8-oz cups) and men need 3.7 (about 15 8-oz cups). But that’s total fluid, not just water, and foods can provide a significant chunk. For example an 8 ounce container of plain, nonfat yogurt supplies 7 oz of fluid, a cup of watermelon 5 oz and even a medium banana, which you don’t think of as being “watery” provides 3 oz. Now that said, if you racked up 20 percent of your fluid needs from food  that still leaves nearly nine cups of fluid to go for women, so if water is the only beverage you drink, eight cups (8 oz each) may not be enough. More 

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