No, not at all common in mu culture. It's also not common on my locality at all. I live in the foothills of Himalayas close to a big river. We have the freshest and mineral rich water reserve and we get it through hand pumps or submersibles. We actually don't require boiling of water here.

Next, talking about cities in India, I haven't seen anyone doing boiling of water much often. Yes household water filter machines are very common. But, as we know that these machines impair water for minerals, I don't view it as a good practice.

I also don't view such research to be very useful. It'd be better if researchers try to find out how to provide for minerals rich fresh water at low costs to people.

When I was in Taiwan, I always boiled 7L of water. Usually twice a day. I never filtered it, though. Maybe I should have....

We boil water to drink tea :))

Boiling water to remove plastic does not make sense

This way of treating water is very energy intensive. While you can get rid of a lot of contaminants you definitely pay a premium price to do so

Lately I switched to filtered tap water + SodaStream. No point looking back now...

Makes sense that it would get out most of the micro plastics how long do u think it would take to eliminate that much if u've been ingesting ur whole life and what would the good consequences be of riding your body aside from being an indigestible poison in your body?! crazy how hard it is to avoid plastics when u really look at it basically have to have your own glass gallon to drink ur water all day and also glass containers for food to go assuming putting everything in glass all produce in fridge and house idk its interesting and I do believe it just questions i have am interested in deplastifying myself lol

We use reverse osmosis to filter out the drinking water. (no boiling) Extra technic shepherds use: Put a piece of pine wood inside the water bottle.

No we don't boil water before consumption. We do filter the water before consumption Thanks for the information