Australian tap water meets minimum safety standards, but those standards were written decades ago. Modern contaminants like PFAS, microplastics, and pharmaceutical residues aren't fully regulated and basic carbon filters can't remove them.
Bottled water seems like the safe choice, but it's expensive, wasteful, and filled with microplastics. A family of four spending $6/day on bottled water pays over $2,000 per year while generating hundreds of kilograms of plastic waste.