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BTW, I am asking all these questions because in the next few weeks I had scheduled with a friend re-plumbing the main part of the house. My main pipe going to the home and a whole other section of home have copper. I had added another 800 square feet years ago, but for some ding-dong reason I didn't re-plumb underneath the older part of the house. I am remodeling the whole home, so I am knocking out parts of the walls going up for various reasons which makes it a great time to also do the plumbing in the walls,
new fixtures and everything else.

So I wonder if this is legal in California to buy and use now? Would there be an issue showering in the water(I don't drink tap water)?

I can also give you a my current Home Depot horror story where I ordered carpet and they are trying to raise my price now by hundreds of dollars.

I wanted to carpet the part of my house that isn't tiled. It was the last day of a sale where stuff was 10% off up to the first $2000 and the pad was free as well.
I told the guy to create an invoice for all the costs for 150 yards installed which would be for sure more than I can use. I can later have them measure and HD could refund the balance due me.
So I asked for a bill for everything. It was only about $2400 for great carpet. I figured that was a great price and I wouldn't have to shop anymore for that and paid the bill.
The person who measures comes out, I get the information part of a week later that I only need about 105 yards to carpet the one part of the house. So I am due back about 1/3rd.
They never told me about my refund, so I call back and they say I owe another $70 or so dollars.

I asked if they were mixed up and they explained they needed to add an installation cost of $4.50 a yard.
I complained about the fact that I asked for a complete bill for 150 yards of carpet installed and that even my invoice has a TOTAL install labor charge of $4.50 in my paid paperwork. I thought that was a charge to initiate the sale in the computer.
So I ended talking to the manager of that Home Depot who backed the mistake of his fellow and gave me a copy of the new invoices where they claimed I had money due.
That paperwork was all a mistake as well. They had a higher price for the carpet in the second set of paperwork compared to the first and the numbers were all off. In addition a magical extra fee of almost $500 appeared in the second set of papers.
So at this point I have to find regional folks or their home office.
#1 In their 5 easy steps to Guaranteed Total Satisfaction, Step 2 says ESTIMATE PRICE.. If you provide your approx room sized, we will advise your total estimated installed price.
Well we went with 150 yards and they left installation out even though I cut a large check..
#2 They say installation is never free and I should know $4.50 wasn't for the total installation price.
I said well, I don't work for you and haven't a clue as to what your policies are. I asked for the total price and had your version of total installation left out.
I also stopped shopping because of this and there were flyers in my area where carpet companies were offering free pad and installation with a purchase for Christmas. So I could have found more reasonable carpet before CHristmas. Or at least would have made a different choice if they started by trying to charge me $3000 instead of $2300 on the original bill.
Plus this is ruining my holidays.

Lastly, I went to another local Home Depot yesterday and in the carpet department there are all NEW SIGNS (flyers) stapled to each rack where they post the $4.50 a yard installation and what is done for that money. They weren't there more than two days ago. There's like 80 of them in the department now. LOL

I guess I shook up the whole company or they have a bigger problem than just me.

Merry Christmas.