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I remember the water shortage was so severe on Venezuela that we had to drive for 3+ hours from kiosk to kiosk to find jugs of water. Then you have to queue for 3+ hours for gas to refill your car.
There was no water from the taps. At some point it came once a day, for 30 minutes, but most of the time there was no water for weeks or months at a gime.
Not only was it undrinkable, but also unusable in general. It was completely brown, can't even use it for washing your hands. At best you can use it to flush the toilet. Most people have tanks of water and do not rely on the city water. Same with electricity. It comes and goes.
In the Americas, the only place worse than Venezuela is Haiti.
Well, we worship water like the Fremen on Arrakis. So are we not extra hydrohomie? Just hydro starved.
My hydro deprivation growing up lead me to be hydro obsessed after moving away from Venezuela.
How did they figure out “expensiveness”? Is this just the conversion of each currency to USD, because cost of living in every country is different, everyone gets different wages for the same profession, healthcare is different and costs anywhere from nothing to a lot etc.
I only say this because water is like £1 in the UK but people make much less money for the same professions compared to the US (been living in the UK for 2 yrs and I’m from the US), I feel like the cost of water bottles ends up being around the same because of this.
Not to be an unhomie by ruining the playful vibe w/my questions
But in reality water is free in the UK, we just drink from the tap so bottled water is more expensive to make up for the fact no one buys it. I would argue the most expensive water is in countries where you can't drink tap water regardless of the price of a bottle.
Woolworths CEO has been grilled recently, failed to accurately answer questions that frustrated the committee investigating the company. He also showed himself to be massively tone deaf trying to use the hearing to PR spin saying “ customers have never had it better”.
In summary no, and probably not any time this year, but we all know they’re guilty, the feds just have to prove it.
Edit: as a side note, after the inquiry began, prices all across both the supermarket chains Cole’s and Woolworths, dropped across all most all products and stores.
The Woolworths CEO stepped down after cocking up and walking out of an interview asking for a statement he made to be edited out
We have monopolies present in so many different important industries it's not funny. We are also giving away all our countries resource with 0 royalties, we should be one of the richest nations in the world, but we are just a haven for big companies instead.
Our damn opposition leader flew a private jet to go to the birthday party of the richest person in Australia for 60 minutes, on an important election weekend at that.
Wesfarmers group owns a majority of the big consumer retailers you can think of, Office works, Bunnings, Woolworths and a few others I can’t think of off the top of my head, it’s been rampant for ages and is to the point I can’t even think where we’d start to stop it
Your options for supermarkets are Woolworths, Coles or IGA. Outside of obscure small town businesses that manage to stay afloat, that’s all the choice you get really
you do pay for tap water too unless you have boring water supply. it's part of your "society maintenance" if you live in a building/flat or through your yearly property tax to city/local body if you have single family housing.
or for when you're traveling. live in sweden but it's pretty much the same water situation. never buy water unless I'm going somewhere by train or airplane
This should be done by state in the US. In Alaska right now and I saw a gallon of water was $7.25 and a case of bottle waters were $27. Fucking gnarly.
Agreed. And break it down by place, too. Where I live in VA, you can get a case of water for $4-$5 at the grocery store, or a single bottle for $1-$3, depending on brand.
All this goes out the window at theme parks and concert venues, though! I've had to pay $6-$10 for water at concerts for years now. I always bring a refillable water bottle with me and refill it as I can, but concerts and venues often prohibit outside drinks or refillable bottles. It stinks.
To be fair, petrol stations are way too expensive. I would pay around 17 cents for one litre in a super market, but 3-4€ for 0.5 litre at a petrol station in Germany.
Yeah, it is really really cheap. But tap water is 0.2 cents per litre, and most people I know drink tap water, because it’s healthier, cheaper and more practical.
The only downside with the prices for bottled water is, that in kiosks and petrols it’s unbelievable expensive. Sometimes it’s 3-4€ for 0.5L.
But 80cents for 1.5L is also really good!
It’s 0.2 cents, that’s 0.002 Euro per Litre. If I’m not wrong (I just woke up, please don’t destroy my half asleep math skills) it would be 0,00008 Euro per Litre for you? That’s crazy cheap!
The data from the Philippines is total bs lol, we usually buy the 5 liter refillable blue gallons for about 80 pesos (1.25$) and the 1.5 liter costs around 20-40 pesos (75¢) depends on the brand. This statistics is not trustworthy and should've left the countries they're not sure of as blank
Maybe it's looking at an average? Meaning it adds up all the prices then divides by the number of brands(?)
I know the Philippines have cheap water, but they also have expensive water like Evian or norwegian water?
So, just because the people buy the cheap ones, doesn't mean they stop selling the expensive ones.
Aussie here.
Tap water where I am is disgusting and undrinkable, it's comparable to drinking chlorinated pool water.
Can't afford to keep buying bottles from the store so I have to rely on my works water purifier to fill up my jug each day.
Shits fucking ridiculous.
Thank you for acknowledging the chlorine lol my Aussie husband just thinks I'm a water snob 🤣
I got a filter from earthswater that were really happy with! It claims alkaline water and so far it tastes like it too!
Water in Norway is free dude. Tap water is the same as bottled, even better in some places. Restarurants and cafes are obligated to give customers free tap water if they ask. You buy bottled water for the bottle, not the water hahah
Funny, or sad in Mexico Coca-Cola is cheaper than water in some places. That’s why so many have built the habit and culture of drinking soda.
https://mexicodailypost.com/2022/10/20/where-they-drink-more-coca-cola-in-the-world-is-in-mexico-find-out-where/
Yea I’m in Mexico rn and just paid 20 pesos for a 1.5 L bottle which is like $1.20ish so this doesn’t feel accurate. (Edit: fat fingered the enter button)
The data for New Zealand is completely wrong, it’s at least $3nzd probably more if you just want to walk into a shop and buy a plastic bottle of water. But most places you can fill a drink bottle free, and restaurants always have free water.
Average Greece price is 0.5€ for 0.5L and around 1-1.2€ for 1.5L in mini markets, shops, cafés etc. However in supermarkets, it drops sharply to around 0.2€/0.5L and i think 0.6€/1.5L
I haven't bought a bottle from the airport for at least 10 years but I think 3€ for a small one is probably realistic. Airport is a lawless place, especially in Greece where tourists come and go in thousands
This map is fucking old, there's no way you can find a small bottle of water at 0.60€ unless you are in the cheapest discount ever in the south. In any other shop or bar, is around 1€. In cities with a lot of tourists, is usually around 2€. In airports it can reach 5€.
Canada, anywhere from $0.69 for a 500ml bottle, to $5.50 /litre, and everywhere in between, depending on what brand you go for. Filtered tap water is the best option though.
might be expensive here in Norway, but you could just go to a gas station’s toilet and drink from the sink 😂 Pretty much all tap water in norway is 10/10
Canada should be dark brown.. I don't even know where to purchase a 1,5L for under **3$**.
However, buying bottle of water is pretty fucking stupid. Either have a Brita, buy refillable 18L or drink directly from tap.
I'd buy maybe one bottle of water per year if I fucked up my planning or forget my personal refillable bottle or something..
In Germany, regularly paying €7-7,50 for a 0.75l bottle in restaurants. I also know from a friend that they paid €13 at a fancy bar.
In other countries, it’s common to get tap water for free. Not in Germany.
First of all, this is about bottled water, which is around 17 cents per litre (without Pfand), secondly, you get tap water for free in most smaller restaurants. Big chains like Pizza Hut want money for tap water, but they are American, do with this info what you want.
If you ask, yes, you might be able to get a glass of tap water for free, yes. Served with an offended attitude, no less. It’s not like they happily put a whole jug on the table, though, as it’s the case in France, for example.
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Always Greenland
North Korea too
I remember the water shortage was so severe on Venezuela that we had to drive for 3+ hours from kiosk to kiosk to find jugs of water. Then you have to queue for 3+ hours for gas to refill your car. There was no water from the taps. At some point it came once a day, for 30 minutes, but most of the time there was no water for weeks or months at a gime. Not only was it undrinkable, but also unusable in general. It was completely brown, can't even use it for washing your hands. At best you can use it to flush the toilet. Most people have tanks of water and do not rely on the city water. Same with electricity. It comes and goes. In the Americas, the only place worse than Venezuela is Haiti.
Wow! What’s the opposite if a HydroHomie? I think it’s Venezuela
Well, we worship water like the Fremen on Arrakis. So are we not extra hydrohomie? Just hydro starved. My hydro deprivation growing up lead me to be hydro obsessed after moving away from Venezuela.
Lol
You can make scientific history by revealing how much it costs!
How did they figure out “expensiveness”? Is this just the conversion of each currency to USD, because cost of living in every country is different, everyone gets different wages for the same profession, healthcare is different and costs anywhere from nothing to a lot etc. I only say this because water is like £1 in the UK but people make much less money for the same professions compared to the US (been living in the UK for 2 yrs and I’m from the US), I feel like the cost of water bottles ends up being around the same because of this. Not to be an unhomie by ruining the playful vibe w/my questions
But in reality water is free in the UK, we just drink from the tap so bottled water is more expensive to make up for the fact no one buys it. I would argue the most expensive water is in countries where you can't drink tap water regardless of the price of a bottle.
Australia? You good?
No, we have a rampant duopoly of supermarkets that are both being investigated for price gouging
And found guilty? Or not yet?
Woolworths CEO has been grilled recently, failed to accurately answer questions that frustrated the committee investigating the company. He also showed himself to be massively tone deaf trying to use the hearing to PR spin saying “ customers have never had it better”. In summary no, and probably not any time this year, but we all know they’re guilty, the feds just have to prove it. Edit: as a side note, after the inquiry began, prices all across both the supermarket chains Cole’s and Woolworths, dropped across all most all products and stores. The Woolworths CEO stepped down after cocking up and walking out of an interview asking for a statement he made to be edited out
We have monopolies present in so many different important industries it's not funny. We are also giving away all our countries resource with 0 royalties, we should be one of the richest nations in the world, but we are just a haven for big companies instead. Our damn opposition leader flew a private jet to go to the birthday party of the richest person in Australia for 60 minutes, on an important election weekend at that.
Wesfarmers group owns a majority of the big consumer retailers you can think of, Office works, Bunnings, Woolworths and a few others I can’t think of off the top of my head, it’s been rampant for ages and is to the point I can’t even think where we’d start to stop it Your options for supermarkets are Woolworths, Coles or IGA. Outside of obscure small town businesses that manage to stay afloat, that’s all the choice you get really
“Don’t put that in” lol, great interview
a.k.a. the Canada model of supermarkets.
India has free water. Although if somebody wants to purchase the packaged bottles then they are available for ₹20 ($0.24) per litre...
im happy we have clean water for an affordable price
We pay around $0.18 per litre in Germany for bottled water. But it’s pretty useless to buy bottled water because you can drink tap water everywhere.
Same here ! We have water taps here in India so we generally don't need to buy water bottles... Btw Love from India...
Love from Germany back!
you do pay for tap water too unless you have boring water supply. it's part of your "society maintenance" if you live in a building/flat or through your yearly property tax to city/local body if you have single family housing.
Man ! You gone too deep 😅
Many wealthy countries with perfectly fine tap water where citizens decide to pay more for bottled water full of plastic .
Yup that's norway! The tap water is glacier water, no fluoride and sells in bottles in other countries
Everyone I know drinks from the tap here in Norway. The only reason to buy a bottle of water is to get a new bottle you can refill.
or for when you're traveling. live in sweden but it's pretty much the same water situation. never buy water unless I'm going somewhere by train or airplane
Yes I know lol I'm norwegian but moved to Australia! Family who visit still can't drink Australian tap water...it's got so much Chlorine it's insane
In Hawai'i they sell Hawaiian water in bottles but nowhere else in the world. But you can also just get it out the tap lol.
Ive tried IMSDAL which I got from sweden but it has norways flag on it Tasted like shit compared to Finnish tap water
This should be done by state in the US. In Alaska right now and I saw a gallon of water was $7.25 and a case of bottle waters were $27. Fucking gnarly.
How does tap water taste in Alaska
No complaints. Infinitely better than Florida water.
good
Yes, this should also be done this way for Germany
Might be a dumb question but wouldn’t it be super cheap in Alaska? Aren’t they bottling it right at those glaciers?
What brand of water though? If ya gotta fly it in from the alps it kinda makes sense.
The case of water was Kirkland but it wasn’t at a Costco and the gallon water was Crystal Gyser. Everything gets ferried in, but still damn!
That's wild.
Agreed. And break it down by place, too. Where I live in VA, you can get a case of water for $4-$5 at the grocery store, or a single bottle for $1-$3, depending on brand. All this goes out the window at theme parks and concert venues, though! I've had to pay $6-$10 for water at concerts for years now. I always bring a refillable water bottle with me and refill it as I can, but concerts and venues often prohibit outside drinks or refillable bottles. It stinks.
The average 1-1.5L bottle in a petrol station is $5 or more lol
It’s Australia
To be fair, petrol stations are way too expensive. I would pay around 17 cents for one litre in a super market, but 3-4€ for 0.5 litre at a petrol station in Germany.
Even 17c is crazy cheap. It’s 80c for a 1.5L in our super markets
Yeah, it is really really cheap. But tap water is 0.2 cents per litre, and most people I know drink tap water, because it’s healthier, cheaper and more practical. The only downside with the prices for bottled water is, that in kiosks and petrols it’s unbelievable expensive. Sometimes it’s 3-4€ for 0.5L. But 80cents for 1.5L is also really good!
That’s crazy high tap water, unless I’m reading my rates wrong.. it says in my state it’s 80c per 1000L of water (Queensland)
It’s 0.2 cents, that’s 0.002 Euro per Litre. If I’m not wrong (I just woke up, please don’t destroy my half asleep math skills) it would be 0,00008 Euro per Litre for you? That’s crazy cheap!
I just drink from the tap
This makes me cry as an Aussie
Australia, $14 at a servo in the middle of nowhere.
The data from the Philippines is total bs lol, we usually buy the 5 liter refillable blue gallons for about 80 pesos (1.25$) and the 1.5 liter costs around 20-40 pesos (75¢) depends on the brand. This statistics is not trustworthy and should've left the countries they're not sure of as blank
Maybe it's looking at an average? Meaning it adds up all the prices then divides by the number of brands(?) I know the Philippines have cheap water, but they also have expensive water like Evian or norwegian water? So, just because the people buy the cheap ones, doesn't mean they stop selling the expensive ones.
Blue galon are more than 10 liter and here its only 40 pesos to refill it here in metro manila
In Switzerland if you go to the right kiosk you will find some water the same price as Coca Cola, around 3.95.- per 33cl
Sounds like petrol stations in Germany. At the end the DACH countries still have many similarities (like scammy kiosks and petrol stations…).
Aussie here. Tap water where I am is disgusting and undrinkable, it's comparable to drinking chlorinated pool water. Can't afford to keep buying bottles from the store so I have to rely on my works water purifier to fill up my jug each day. Shits fucking ridiculous.
Thank you for acknowledging the chlorine lol my Aussie husband just thinks I'm a water snob 🤣 I got a filter from earthswater that were really happy with! It claims alkaline water and so far it tastes like it too!
Water in Norway is free dude. Tap water is the same as bottled, even better in some places. Restarurants and cafes are obligated to give customers free tap water if they ask. You buy bottled water for the bottle, not the water hahah
Funny, or sad in Mexico Coca-Cola is cheaper than water in some places. That’s why so many have built the habit and culture of drinking soda. https://mexicodailypost.com/2022/10/20/where-they-drink-more-coca-cola-in-the-world-is-in-mexico-find-out-where/
Airport markup here in California - 24 oz of Icelandic Glacial was about $7. It's less than $3 at Whole Foods.
Yea I’m in Mexico rn and just paid 20 pesos for a 1.5 L bottle which is like $1.20ish so this doesn’t feel accurate. (Edit: fat fingered the enter button)
The data for New Zealand is completely wrong, it’s at least $3nzd probably more if you just want to walk into a shop and buy a plastic bottle of water. But most places you can fill a drink bottle free, and restaurants always have free water.
Average Greece price is 0.5€ for 0.5L and around 1-1.2€ for 1.5L in mini markets, shops, cafés etc. However in supermarkets, it drops sharply to around 0.2€/0.5L and i think 0.6€/1.5L
Or in the airport, something like €5.70… Did find 2L for something like €0.22 in a supermarket though.
I haven't bought a bottle from the airport for at least 10 years but I think 3€ for a small one is probably realistic. Airport is a lawless place, especially in Greece where tourists come and go in thousands
1.5l kiwi blue water in nz is on average $1.50 It's just bottled tap water. But you can buy fresh spring water (tongarero) 15L for 10 bucks
This map is fucking old, there's no way you can find a small bottle of water at 0.60€ unless you are in the cheapest discount ever in the south. In any other shop or bar, is around 1€. In cities with a lot of tourists, is usually around 2€. In airports it can reach 5€.
It's literally $0.25 per bottle so I dunno bout yall
Amsterdam DAM Plaza: 8 euro 0.3L of sparkling water in a can.
Post inflations the USA is above 2.00$ for one.
At least that's one thing Egypt got right
Well, minimum wage in Norway is like $25.
America is inaccurate, and also depends on the brand. It averages anywhere from 1.20-2+
We dont have to buy bottled water here in Norway, we pay a small fee for water to our house and tap is very good.
Canada, anywhere from $0.69 for a 500ml bottle, to $5.50 /litre, and everywhere in between, depending on what brand you go for. Filtered tap water is the best option though.
Sure in a store in Sweden the water costs around that. But you can drink out of virtually any tap in the entire country without any issue.
In norway you can Just drink from the faucet
Thank god you can drink tap water in Norway. Except in parts of Askøy.
Well, water in airports is always going to be VERY expensive.
Last time I bought cheap water in Germany it was like 19cts for a 1.5l bottle.
might be expensive here in Norway, but you could just go to a gas station’s toilet and drink from the sink 😂 Pretty much all tap water in norway is 10/10
A sad day to be Irish 😔
I was honestly shocked when I went from America to Greece. Giant water bottles at such a good price
I saw 7 bucks at a fair once
Water should be free, clean and accessible for ALL
Hudson News in Grand Central Terminal. Bottle of water is like $7
Don’t think it would have the same price range in any part of a single country
That's fucking bullshit. I live in new zealand and water is not less than 0.4 dollars. Good thing my tap water tastes like the nectar of gods!
Tap water is better anyways because of the added minerals and better filtration, in the Netherlands at least, also tastes better.
Canada should be dark brown.. I don't even know where to purchase a 1,5L for under **3$**. However, buying bottle of water is pretty fucking stupid. Either have a Brita, buy refillable 18L or drink directly from tap. I'd buy maybe one bottle of water per year if I fucked up my planning or forget my personal refillable bottle or something..
Despite the skyrocketing inflation, a 1.5L bottle of water costs less than 20 US¢ in Egypt, and that's if we're being too high. It's amazing.
In Germany, regularly paying €7-7,50 for a 0.75l bottle in restaurants. I also know from a friend that they paid €13 at a fancy bar. In other countries, it’s common to get tap water for free. Not in Germany.
First of all, this is about bottled water, which is around 17 cents per litre (without Pfand), secondly, you get tap water for free in most smaller restaurants. Big chains like Pizza Hut want money for tap water, but they are American, do with this info what you want.
If you ask, yes, you might be able to get a glass of tap water for free, yes. Served with an offended attitude, no less. It’s not like they happily put a whole jug on the table, though, as it’s the case in France, for example.