Water hoses for drinking

A regular garden hose is not regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act and many are chocked full of unhealthy chemicals. One particularly nasty one is lead, found in the end connectors, and produces levels considered to be unsafe. Many plastic additives that are banned in almost all containers can also be found in your garden hose. We all drank from our garden hoses growing up, but this is a different world we live in today with a whole alphabet of new chemicals and manufacturing processes from countries that could care less if they might be contaminating our environment or our body. Drink from them if you like, but I would never advise anyone else to do it. And it doesn't have to be white to be safe to use for drinking. Read the labels. Chuck