Sodium hydroxide may be used in the making of soap (I don't know I'd have to look it up but I don't care, I know chemistry), but it is not "in soap." That's not how chemistry works.
Even if you ate that bar of soap you'd be fine.
Maybe, but soap is not a NaOH solution.
they already add 100ppm to city drinking water as a disinfectant everyday
Again, I'm not going to look it up because its irrelevant. If you add it to water as a disinfectant you are doing one of two things, neutralizing overly acidic water, or killing bacteria (because it strongly kills things). If you use it to kill bacteria you can then follow up with an acid to neutralize it.
Yeah no doubt, it can be absolutely dangerous. But hydrochloric acid will absolutely destroy you, but can be completely neutralized with a 1:1 ratio of water.
After leaving the treatment plant it would be introduced to a million gallons of water.
What concentration would that have been when it reached the faucet? Hard to tell, im sure someone can figure it out. They increased the concentration 100x at the facility. But there are several more steps to the treatment before even leaving the facility.
Im not downplaying the possibility of how dangerous it is, but the concentration at the faucet would likely have been nothing more than a mild irritant.
For example, apples contain arsenic and cyanide. Concentration matters.
Sodium hydroxide may be used in the making of soap (I don't know I'd have to look it up but I don't care, I know chemistry), but it is not "in soap." That's not how chemistry works.
Maybe, but soap is not a NaOH solution.
Again, I'm not going to look it up because its irrelevant. If you add it to water as a disinfectant you are doing one of two things, neutralizing overly acidic water, or killing bacteria (because it strongly kills things). If you use it to kill bacteria you can then follow up with an acid to neutralize it.
Again, do NOT consume NaOH. EVER.
Yeah no doubt, it can be absolutely dangerous. But hydrochloric acid will absolutely destroy you, but can be completely neutralized with a 1:1 ratio of water.
After leaving the treatment plant it would be introduced to a million gallons of water.
What concentration would that have been when it reached the faucet? Hard to tell, im sure someone can figure it out. They increased the concentration 100x at the facility. But there are several more steps to the treatment before even leaving the facility.
Im not downplaying the possibility of how dangerous it is, but the concentration at the faucet would likely have been nothing more than a mild irritant.
For example, apples contain arsenic and cyanide. Concentration matters.