It was mentioned before that NYC, Boston, and Seattle are the large cities that don’t filter their water. When I visited Seattle about 6 years ago, I asked Rabbi Kletenik, head of the Seattle Vaad, about the copepods (“little lobsters” as I call them). He told me then that the water was tested and they found no bugs. I recently heard in the name of Rabbi Hillel David that one does not need to filter the tap water in Seattle, but one who wants to be extra careful (I forgot the exact lashon, maybe I heard “baal Nefesh” or “yirai shamayim”…) should filter.
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