Probably the taste of dissolved gasses differs. Normally that is the main difference in taste between water of different temperatures thus we take it as a taste proxy for temperature.
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Ya shouldn't drink the water when they flush the system like that
yeah I'm sure they're just poisoning my drinking water for 5 weeks at a time every year
https://www.safewater.org/fact-sheets-1/2017/1/23/what-is-chlorination
Yes, it's practically a low-concentrated poison and the only reason they do that is because the side-effects are outweighted by benefits from clearing the water with it. You wouldn't die from drinking it right away, but if you can, don't.
the poison is in the dose. everybody knows what chlorine is
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