What are the health benefits of drinking tap water?

What are the health benefits of drinking tap water?

Tap water in Estonia is rich in calcium and magnesium due to the local limestone. These minerals are essential for the body to function properly.

Calcium and magnesium are components of the skeleton, body fluids, and enzymes, and they help transmit nerve impulses. However, the human body does not contain enough minerals, and cannot produce them on its own. Both humans and animals obtain various bioelements from food, water, and air. Drinking this water is good for the human body, even though it is not so good for household appliances that use water because it causes limescale formation.

Laboratory tests on Tallinn's tap water show that drinking two litres of water a day, you will get 13% of the calcium, 5% of the magnesium, and 1% of the sodium that you need every day just from the water. Additionally, drinking water provides the body with necessary potassium, manganese, zinc, and copper, but in significantly smaller amounts.

Therefore, drinking water alone does not provide the body with all the minerals it needs. You should also bear in mind that installing filters generally reduces the mineral content of water, and irregular filter maintenances can lead to biological contamination.

The mineral content of Tallinn's drinking water can be found here.

According to scientists at Harvard Medical School, adequate water intake is important for health also because water is a vital nutrient for the development and regeneration of cells and regulates body temperature through sweating. Since the body loses water and essential minerals more quickly in hot weather and when sweating excessively, it is particularly important to make sure you drink enough water in summer.