um there's nothing quite like a fresh glass of water but how fresh is water well believe it or not as much as half of the water you drink is older than the sun the universe contained water before our son was born but for a long time it was feared that when a star is born nearby water could be obliterated into hydrogen and oxygen and the cosmic rays needed to form plentiful water again could be blocked by its solar wind only in rare circumstances like our own could a sun reform new younger water in its system
after its birth but recent studies of the water around us and models of how water forms in the first place have found that anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of the water in our solar system the water we drink in bathe in predates the sun which is embarrassing for our container technology chemicals and packaging can leach into water giving it a bad taste over time so even though much of this water has been around longer than our solar system it expires in just a few years
