Your tap water has passed every official safety test. It meets every EU regulation. By every legal standard it’s perfectly safe to drink. But safe and pure are two very different things. Between the treatment plant and your glass, your water travels through pipes that in many cases are over 100 years old. It picks up residual minerals, trace compounds, and emerging contaminants that official standards are still catching up with. Nobody is lying to you about your water. But nobody is telling you the full story either. It’s time to change that. Here’s what’s actually in your water and why it matters.