Can you get a brain-eating amoeba from tap water? https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/can-you-get-a-brain-eating-amoeba-from-tap-water If water contaminated with N. fowleri gets into the nose, i.g. when someone dives or jumps into water, these amoebas can travel via the olfactory nerve to the brain. There, they begin destroying brain tissue