In this paper, we analyze the ways tap water is articulated as a risk by parents in their everyday life. Tap water is the most important foodstuff for our survival, and it is an essential part of our daily life. Nevertheless, water can also become a health concern. As the risk of chemical pollutants in the tap water in Sweden has increased due to the increase of the use of chemical substances in society and due to climate change, it becomes important to investigate if and how people come to understand tap water as a risk. Particularly since relatively little research has explored how people understand and act in relation to possible tap water risks, such as chemical pollutants. The study is based on empirical material composed of qualitative interviews made in Sweden in the spring of 2015 and the fall of 2016. Initially, in 2015, twenty interviews were made in the city of Östersund and then six interviews were made in the city of Uppsala in 2016. The interviews were all made with parents to infants who at the time was on parental leave. Altogether twenty six interviews was made with a total of 19 female and 7 male parents. The tentative results indicate that the respondents take tap water for being pure and safe, the purity is associated with water as a natural resource from the local area. This sense of purity is explicitly geographical embedded, and when risks are brought into the interview conversation comparisons are made to other places as localities of contaminated and dangerous water, both nationally and globally. Interestingly, although parenthood is discussed in relation to risk awareness the results indicate that tap water is not one of the risk objects that are thought of in terms of a responsible parenthood.