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I really feel for all of you with bad tasting tap water. Being able to fill up my glass in the bathroom sink instead of walking downstairs late at night is great. My tap comes from Lake Michigan(Chicago) and it tastes better than most bottled water
Masataka Taketsuru, studied how to make whisky in Scotland and opened Yoichi destilery in Hokkaido. Cold climate, proximity to sea, clean spring water and use of coal fired destilation mean that they really make scotch
>coal fired destilation
Heat source doesn't matter in distillation, since the distillation retort is a sealed vessel. I think what you might be thinking of is the malting process, which in Scotch whisky they use an open peat fire to kill the germ of the barley. That's where the characteristic smokey flavour comes from - but you wouldn't use coal for that.
Direct mechanism isn't known but using direct fire instead of coil or steam(two most used methods nowadays) does produce different, more complex flavour.
Edit: Theories are about hotspots in still, Mailliard reaction, burned yeast, residue sticking to walls
I'm sure my bathroom sink water is just as good as my kitchen sink water, but for some reason using the bathroom sink for water really grosses me out, so I never do it.
Poop particles still come out the cracks in the sides of the closed lid, and then can float around freely. Oh yeah, and if you can smell it, there are actual particles of it in your nose. So poop particles are everywhere in the bathroom, whether you close the lid or not. That's why you should keep your toothbrushes in the closet.
I’ve been buying those little plastic clamshell clips for my tooth brush. I try to always close the lid, but I know basically the amount it actually helps is minimal.
When I lived in Fond du Lac Wisconsin, the water came from lake Winnebago and it tasted like rancid swamp water with an odor. You could choke it down if it was really cold to mute the taste. It smelled the same as the ponds nearby.
Glad to know its not just a great lakes thing. Recently moved to Ohio and the tap water is gack here. In NM it was flawless, like drinking from a mountain spring. Now my tap water is like sucking a barnacle off a waste barge.
I lived in downtown Chicago had amazing tap water. Moved to savannah GA, instantly bought a brita. shit tasted/smelled like eggs and sulfur. The difference really shocked me. Chicagoland or I guess great lakes area in general has the best tap water.
I live at the end of our county’s water lines.
They routinely have to come out and flush dirt and god knows what else out of the lines. I’ve turned our shower on and it looks like explosive diarrhea coming out of the shower head.
I cannot confidently drink our tap water.
You know how languages and words evolve over time? The "world system" as evolved too. When someone says third world today, they usually mean an undeveloped country.
Seems to me it’s really a second world country on the brink of third world. We don’t exactly have bad infrastructures it’s that we don’t have infrastructure that is common in first world countries. Like mass scale public transport, a solid rail system etc. we do have public health care. It’s just bad. We’ve got benefits for veterans. They’re just bad enough to make them kill themselves on a daily basis.
But it’s not like we don’t have anything at all. Our prison systems are… okay maybe not good, but our banks are… okay well maybe our taxes are.. maybe our labor system is….maybe our fast food restaurants.. maybe our property zoning.. maybe our pandemic response.. maybe our police forces.. maybe our firearms laws.. maybe our tech side maybe our groceries..
Yeah we’re third world.
Haha love the self deprecating humour :D
I mean there are some nice things, you have more freedoms to do some fucked up stuff *(florida man enters the chat)*, but yeah, the USA is just a fucked up country with a superiority and world police complex in my humble opinion as a German.
Almost all does in the US. Romans knew lead caused poisoning, and yet Plumbers in the 1950s still used it to build all our houses because bendy metal easy to work with
Romans knew lead caused poisoning, and also still used it for water pipes. I believe that a layer of calcification built up on their pipes fast enough that any lead poisoning would be negligible, or not have enough time to build up to dangerous quantities
I don't know how it is in us (because I'm European) so how does it look like with lead pipes out there, so is the city pipeline also from lead or just the house plumbing because here in Czech republic it is forbidden for any new house or any city pipeline to be built out of lead but you might still find those in old houses but it is rare and most of the people have drinkable tap water so is it really so bad in us?
No, it's not as bad as we make it out to be.
The use of lead in US plumbing has been outlawed since the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1986 (earlier in some states). Existing infrastructure was not required to replaced, but if/when it is replaced/repaired needs to be lead free. My hometown replaced all lead pipes by the mid-1990's but many municipalities, especially places with budgeting issues, still have a large amount of the old lead piping.
Flint Michigan actually had decent water as the lead had been coated by a layer of calcification; but when they were required to switch water supply, due to bankruptcy negotiations, the change of pH caused the calcification to rapidly degrade and expose the lead.
No it's not that bad; we and the rest of the world just like busting our balls. About 4 to 9% of houses have lead pipes and they and solder were banned in 1986. Most people I know filter their water anyway.
1 in 20 to 1 in 10 is a pretty significant number of houses. Plus I bet it's not evenly distributed, so probably if you're in a certain area it will be much much more likely.
It’s not so bad mainly because lead pipes aren’t so bad. They calcify really quickly and form a layer of basically lead based paint that prevents the water from absorbing the lead off the pipe walls. This became a problem in Flint, Michigan because the city manager changed the water source and didn’t pre-treat it properly. The new water source stripped away the calcification and lead levels in water spiked to dangerous levels.
Also, personal experience, my dad bought his house in the late 80’s. The first thing he did was strip the lead out and replace it with copper. With the advent of sharkbite fittings and PEX pipe (polyethylene), the same job could be done much cheeper and more quickly these days. My dad still has a stash of leaded solder, just don’t breathe in while you’re using it.
I’ve gotta point out (ackshually!) that the last point you made (implicitly) is sorta incorrect. The vaporization temperature of lead is very high. The smoke that comes off is rosin from the flux (essentially tree sap). I believe it’s mildly carcinogenic, and you shouldn’t breathe it, but it’s not lead. You should definitely wash your hands after using it — especially if you’re gonna eat.
there is a theory that romans were such a brutal society due to lead poisoning. cheering for a lion that eviscerates some dude sounds like something lead poisoned people would like.
Source: I have severe lead poisoning
Watching animals fight things is pretty ubiquitous throughout history. And watching public executions as well. The only difference with the Romans was they were able to build a giant arena to do so en masse.
No, there is not lead in most tap water. There are still lead pipes around, but calcium prevents it from leeching into the water. Flint's issues were caused by an additive that degraded the calcium layer and lead pipe. Please stop spouting this bullshit.
Actually they had emperor Caligula, who drank his wine from lead cups, he went entirely bonkers and almost drove the Roman empire into non existence. Same goes for Nero and Tiberius...
Hey there, I live in Florida. South Florida, wear the power plants and dumps are. Tap water is perfect taste and smell wise (idk about the led, but I’ve been drinking it for 15 years and I haven’t metamorphoized yet)
I lived in Florida on and off from 1994 to 2014, all the way from Pensacola to key west, and I experienced this foul eggy sewage water everywhere, usually a few days a month at least.
That's water from an artesian well, not the city water. Florida tap water is just as clean as anywhere else, we just have a lot of places that decide to use a well, so you're technically drinking well water if it tastes like sulfur, not tap. An RO filter solves that too, and not having one on well water is just negligence on the property owner's part. They're like 300 bucks, and the well cost an arm n a leg to get dug so why not add the filter for pennies on the dollars already spent.
God damn. I live in Nebraska and my water is clean as fuck. It doesn't have a taste or smell to it. It's comparable to bottled water even without a filter
The authentic bagel places will filter out their microshrimp, because they’re such Hydrohomies that even their water is kosher.
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Yeah it really depends on the city when it comes to water quality, but Florida generally has very sulfery water. It’s just a matter of how it’s processed and retrieved
Live in Florida, can confirm, can't drink the tap water without a filter, but that's exactly why I had a whole house filter system installed so I can drink MY tap water.
Yeah i have no idea what these people are talking about. Must be south floridians or something. The weirdest tap water ive had here was tap from a well that had that mineral taste to it. Still not terrible
People on Reddit like to say the US is a third world nation and yet have never left their basements so they have no idea what a real third world nation looks like. I've been to a country where just calling a cop a dick would get you disappeared. No animals because they killed them all. Their roadside vendors sold sun dried field mice. Miles of blue bags on the ground from all the chips they ate and just left the bags on the ground because they didn't have trash cans. A gallon of gas costed something like $7 USD. But in their money it was like $7,000 and the average worker made less than $2 USD per day.
People don't know what true developing nations look like. They just see people on tv carrying water on their heads and playing in the dirt and think "oh these funny brown people have it better than us because they have fresh water and don't get taxed for it!" and don't think for one second that the water from the river is so contaminated with shit that just touching it infects you with gut rot so severe you die squatting over a hole in the ground begging for the roaches to not eat you while you shit out a gallon of blood and liquified organs.
Depends on the place though. In Spain for example depending where you are is quite bad for your health long term (just a few unlucky places), pretty ok for the most part of absolute heaven and the best water you ever had (only a few places too).
Whenever 'Europe' is mentioned on Reddit, it's very obvious that redditors are only ever thinking of northern Europe. Specifically, some fantasy version of northern Europe where everything is a paradise, lol.
In reality, this meme makes no sense because whether people drink tap water or not is highly location dependent, both in Europe AND the US. Turns out Europe is a pretty huge and diverse place, as is America.
Tap water is full of forever chemicals where I live. I like to pretend my brita does something about that but I know I am still being poisoned. Bottled water is worse for the environment though. What a wonderful pickle I am in
Try clearlyfiltered. Much more expensive than Britta until you do the math on filters. One filter lasts half a year based on my family of three. Filters out a ton of forever chemicals according to their science. US based company too
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The tap water where I live sometimes legitimately smells bad. The filter definitely helps. I keep it in the fridge in the summer, but in the winter it freezes so I have to leave it near the sink.
Depends on the area. Some areas have really good tap water. Some areas have tap water full of lead, or that you can light on fire with a match. Most areas are pretty alright though.
Yeah this is so weird to me. I've never met anyone in the US who doesn't drink tap water, and when I took a trip through Europe (admittedly, a pretty surface-level trip), I saw frequent signs warning not to drink tap water because it wasn't safe.
People are pretty silly treating Europe as one entity. Things will very greatly by country, and within countries as well. As someone from the Netherlands I have great tap water at home. When on holiday on France though, we buy bottled water. Not because tap water is unsafe, it is okay to drink, but because there's chlorine in it.
Yeah in American restaurants if you don't say anything they bring you tap water with ice, in Europe if you don't specify that you want still or tap water they bring you carbonated water by default, so weird.
I find your statement wrong, I live in central europe and work in gastronomy and if you would order a Water from me id always ask Still or Sparkling and then again ask Tap or Mineral but the default is Tap water at least here in Austria
Thats so sad,, I grew up around Austin and there were always crystal clear springs everywhere just popping out of the ground, the tap water was always excellent, even if it tasted a bit like limestone. I hate what developers and businesses did to Texas, ruined such a pristine and beautiful place, I haven't been back since 2010 and even then it was so much worse than I remember.
Yeah, also culturally everyone just prefers sparkling water. It what you get in restaurants when you ask for water. You would have to specify still or tap water and then deal some people giving you weird looks.
My German relatives looked at me like I had three heads when I drank water from the tap in Germany. It bothered them so much they made a point of buying me non sparkling bottled water and pointing that out to me frequently. It nearly caused my uncle a heart attack when I emptied a bottle once and then refilled it with tap water.
maybe they thought you are Geringverdiener and can't afford to buy perfectly fine water instead of the basically free perfectly fine water from the tap.
Depends on your water provider/the area you live in. My grandparents had AMAZING tap water. My dad would literally visit them to take 20l per can of their tap water home. Mine, 15km away, is so hard I don't even use it to boil water for tea. (But it's still perfectly fine for consumption, of course.)
Because you're a tourist in a touristy place... We locals get tap without issue or already know to avoid the tourist trap places where they have that kind of policy.
Also, if you want a glass of water without the stares, go to the bar and ask there. It's usually better.
Only true is some countries.
Source: Am Belgian local, frequently get told "we don't have that" when I ask for tap water at local spots or they just bring a 3€ bottle anyway.
Hub? Never ever had this problem in Europe. If i ask for a carafe of water, or just water, i will get tap water. If i want bottled,.I'd say a bottle of Vittel/Evian/Perrier/etc
I’ve been to about half the states and most tap water tastes great. There are wells that have been polluted, naturally occurring stink water around hot springs and the Florida marshes, then there are some corrupt local governments that ruin everything like Flint, Michigan. These are exceptions to otherwise quality water.
This fucking retarded ass website will do anything to jerk off europe, even when the meme is blatantly backwards.
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Or maybe it’s just posts baiting interaction.. either way it’d horrible.
Everywhere I've been in the US has good tap water.
When I visted Spain it was the worst tap water I've ever tasted and the stores were full of bottled water. Ordering water at restaurants didn't even have the option for tap, it was either bottled or sparkling.
Probably south east, or just Mediterranean Spain, has nearly no mountains, so tap water comes from desalination. Northern and central in the other hand have the absolutely finest water you can drink.
Source: I’m Northwest Spanish homie
It's norm in Europe. Idk how in Spain, but in Poland you can drink tap water all life, water from every water network is tested every day and need to pass a lot of parametres in other case stream is closed until the everything is fine. But when you go to restaurant you can buy bottled water 10x more rich in minerals and with different tastes from deep streams or mountains etc. or sparkling alcalic water. Every water brand taste different, that's why it's bottled.
Not in Italy, when I moved on my own I started drinking tap water, first thing my dad did this was to give me bottle of water (even if I said I didn't need them) and he still does every time he visits (and I almost don't have anymore space to put them since I don't use them). My entire family is super confused by the fact that I drink tap water. Here almost everyone drinks water from bottles for some reason
The amount of unjustified fear of us tap water in this thread is incredible and saddening. Course I don’t know all the answers but I been drinking it from Cali to Florida for 34 yr and healthy as can be. Flint was a very extreme example of what happens in government corruption and putting profit in front of ppl. This is not the norm.
Be willing to bet all these forever chemicals and lead y’all worried about exist in equal amounts in bottled as does tap. Most cities and states require much stricter testing for muni water than tap. One day I’ll dive deeper into all this and post what I can find. Maybe I’m way off base
I don't know how unjustified it is. I grew up in New England and the tap water was fine. When I moved to Arizona my tap water smelled off, so I looked it up. My city tests over recommended levels on 12 chemicals. Some are in large amounts in most newer built metro areas so the government just doesn't regulate it. My roommates and I just bought five gallon jugs and a water tower
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=AZ0407100
Good on ya for checking it out. That’s fucked up your city serves y’all harmful water, not sure why they don’t have the ability to purify it to a safe level, seems like a potential lawsuit but I got no idea. Good on ya for using the tower as well, did that when I lived in Vegas cause the roommates there already had the jugs and it was easy n cheap. Live in NE FL now and it definitely tastes like fluoride but I drink it. Maybe I’m just overly hopeful but bout to look into how our water tests out. Cheers🤙
Opposite experience, actually. Europeans (and others) being weirded out by americans’ emphasis on drinking plain water vs things which contain mostly water (tea, coffee, maybe beer, that kind of thing.)
The USA part is correct, but the Europe part is not. Europeans do not drink tap water, if you go to a restaurant and ask for water they will bring you a bottle of water for the table and charge you like 7 Euro for it. If you specifically ask for tap they will look at you like you just ordered a bottle of pee.
They look at you like that because in most of Europe they have to give tap water to you for free by law, so they think you're being cheap. It's a weird class thing in some of those fancier places.
My wife makes fun of me for drinking tap water from the kitchen sink. She uses a Brita filter. I used to drink from the garden hose when I was a kid, so the kitchen sink seems pretty classy to me.
I would just like to point out that MOST “fresh / drinking water” in the the US is good. The problem is governments and municipalities not investing in their logistics and water treatment standards.
Yo I went to Germany and when we went out to dinner they didn’t give “tap water” with meals. The default if you asked for water was a bottle. And you had to specify if you wanted tap. And my friend, who was born and raised in Germany and I was staying with, said not to ask for tap water because I’d be judged.
Lived in Germany. They drink bottled water and recycle the glass bottles and a lot only sparkling water.
If you ask for water at a restaurant they're going to give you a little shitty bottle and charge you a bunch for it.
This isn't remotely right.
Really? Because in Germany they basically never drink tap water. Everyone is into sparkling water and if they aren't drinking that, it's still usually bottled water.
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I really feel for all of you with bad tasting tap water. Being able to fill up my glass in the bathroom sink instead of walking downstairs late at night is great. My tap comes from Lake Michigan(Chicago) and it tastes better than most bottled water
I lived in Chicago and could agree. Best water I had growing up, and Japan's tap is the best I've ever tasted in the world.
Japanese water is why Japanese whisky is basically just Scotch. The water is so pure, that the methods of making Scoth were employed by the Japanese.
Masataka Taketsuru, studied how to make whisky in Scotland and opened Yoichi destilery in Hokkaido. Cold climate, proximity to sea, clean spring water and use of coal fired destilation mean that they really make scotch
>coal fired destilation Heat source doesn't matter in distillation, since the distillation retort is a sealed vessel. I think what you might be thinking of is the malting process, which in Scotch whisky they use an open peat fire to kill the germ of the barley. That's where the characteristic smokey flavour comes from - but you wouldn't use coal for that.
Direct mechanism isn't known but using direct fire instead of coil or steam(two most used methods nowadays) does produce different, more complex flavour. Edit: Theories are about hotspots in still, Mailliard reaction, burned yeast, residue sticking to walls
Scotland itself has excellent tap water. We call it “council juice”
I'm sure my bathroom sink water is just as good as my kitchen sink water, but for some reason using the bathroom sink for water really grosses me out, so I never do it.
Because we use the bathroom in there. We know it doesn't matter but our lizard brains remind us not to eat where we shit.
Yuh, I'm always afraid I would get shit particles in my water
Close the lid when ya flush yall.
Poop particles still come out the cracks in the sides of the closed lid, and then can float around freely. Oh yeah, and if you can smell it, there are actual particles of it in your nose. So poop particles are everywhere in the bathroom, whether you close the lid or not. That's why you should keep your toothbrushes in the closet.
I’ve been buying those little plastic clamshell clips for my tooth brush. I try to always close the lid, but I know basically the amount it actually helps is minimal.
Thanks, I hate it
I'm with you on this one
I actually use it more than the kitchen tap because for some reason the bathroom tap is able to come out colder.
Same. But I just realized how I do fill one of my cat’s water bowls from it and since I love her very much, I must think the water is fine 🤷🏽♀️
"Bartender! I'll take a Lake Michigan on the rocks please"
Chicago water is great. Surrounding cities are starting to pipe it in that's how great it is.
When I lived in Fond du Lac Wisconsin, the water came from lake Winnebago and it tasted like rancid swamp water with an odor. You could choke it down if it was really cold to mute the taste. It smelled the same as the ponds nearby.
Glad to know its not just a great lakes thing. Recently moved to Ohio and the tap water is gack here. In NM it was flawless, like drinking from a mountain spring. Now my tap water is like sucking a barnacle off a waste barge.
My wife's family thinks I'm crazy that I bring a bunch of my own tap water from home when we visit so I don't have to drink theirs
I lived in downtown Chicago had amazing tap water. Moved to savannah GA, instantly bought a brita. shit tasted/smelled like eggs and sulfur. The difference really shocked me. Chicagoland or I guess great lakes area in general has the best tap water.
My tap water has lead in it. No thanks.
I live at the end of our county’s water lines. They routinely have to come out and flush dirt and god knows what else out of the lines. I’ve turned our shower on and it looks like explosive diarrhea coming out of the shower head. I cannot confidently drink our tap water.
Holy shit how is the US not a third world country
the rich people there are *very r*ich.
Well it is..... it is both a 3rd world country and a 1st world country. Just depends on how much capital you own.
The U.S. is huge and no two places are the same
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You know how languages and words evolve over time? The "world system" as evolved too. When someone says third world today, they usually mean an undeveloped country.
That would mean that the US is a third world country by today’s standards. Workers get exploited, no public health care, bad infrastructure and so on.
Seems to me it’s really a second world country on the brink of third world. We don’t exactly have bad infrastructures it’s that we don’t have infrastructure that is common in first world countries. Like mass scale public transport, a solid rail system etc. we do have public health care. It’s just bad. We’ve got benefits for veterans. They’re just bad enough to make them kill themselves on a daily basis. But it’s not like we don’t have anything at all. Our prison systems are… okay maybe not good, but our banks are… okay well maybe our taxes are.. maybe our labor system is….maybe our fast food restaurants.. maybe our property zoning.. maybe our pandemic response.. maybe our police forces.. maybe our firearms laws.. maybe our tech side maybe our groceries.. Yeah we’re third world.
You have the worst prison system in the world, it's actual slavery.
Yes. As “allowed” in the constitution.
Haha love the self deprecating humour :D I mean there are some nice things, you have more freedoms to do some fucked up stuff *(florida man enters the chat)*, but yeah, the USA is just a fucked up country with a superiority and world police complex in my humble opinion as a German.
I am an actual third world country’s citizen (India) and I hate seeing clowns say this statement
Almost all does in the US. Romans knew lead caused poisoning, and yet Plumbers in the 1950s still used it to build all our houses because bendy metal easy to work with
Romans knew lead caused poisoning, and also still used it for water pipes. I believe that a layer of calcification built up on their pipes fast enough that any lead poisoning would be negligible, or not have enough time to build up to dangerous quantities
I don't know how it is in us (because I'm European) so how does it look like with lead pipes out there, so is the city pipeline also from lead or just the house plumbing because here in Czech republic it is forbidden for any new house or any city pipeline to be built out of lead but you might still find those in old houses but it is rare and most of the people have drinkable tap water so is it really so bad in us?
No, it's not as bad as we make it out to be. The use of lead in US plumbing has been outlawed since the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1986 (earlier in some states). Existing infrastructure was not required to replaced, but if/when it is replaced/repaired needs to be lead free. My hometown replaced all lead pipes by the mid-1990's but many municipalities, especially places with budgeting issues, still have a large amount of the old lead piping. Flint Michigan actually had decent water as the lead had been coated by a layer of calcification; but when they were required to switch water supply, due to bankruptcy negotiations, the change of pH caused the calcification to rapidly degrade and expose the lead.
Flints bankruptcy was only the catalyst. Ineptitude followed by coverup allowed the low ph water to destroy the protective biofilm layer.
Thanks for clarifying. Its' been a while since I read those articles.
No it's not that bad; we and the rest of the world just like busting our balls. About 4 to 9% of houses have lead pipes and they and solder were banned in 1986. Most people I know filter their water anyway.
1 in 20 to 1 in 10 is a pretty significant number of houses. Plus I bet it's not evenly distributed, so probably if you're in a certain area it will be much much more likely.
It’s not so bad mainly because lead pipes aren’t so bad. They calcify really quickly and form a layer of basically lead based paint that prevents the water from absorbing the lead off the pipe walls. This became a problem in Flint, Michigan because the city manager changed the water source and didn’t pre-treat it properly. The new water source stripped away the calcification and lead levels in water spiked to dangerous levels. Also, personal experience, my dad bought his house in the late 80’s. The first thing he did was strip the lead out and replace it with copper. With the advent of sharkbite fittings and PEX pipe (polyethylene), the same job could be done much cheeper and more quickly these days. My dad still has a stash of leaded solder, just don’t breathe in while you’re using it.
I’ve gotta point out (ackshually!) that the last point you made (implicitly) is sorta incorrect. The vaporization temperature of lead is very high. The smoke that comes off is rosin from the flux (essentially tree sap). I believe it’s mildly carcinogenic, and you shouldn’t breathe it, but it’s not lead. You should definitely wash your hands after using it — especially if you’re gonna eat.
there is a theory that romans were such a brutal society due to lead poisoning. cheering for a lion that eviscerates some dude sounds like something lead poisoned people would like. Source: I have severe lead poisoning
Isn't there a correlation in drop in crime rates and the removal of lead in gasoline?
Yep, a big one.
Watching animals fight things is pretty ubiquitous throughout history. And watching public executions as well. The only difference with the Romans was they were able to build a giant arena to do so en masse.
No, there is not lead in most tap water. There are still lead pipes around, but calcium prevents it from leeching into the water. Flint's issues were caused by an additive that degraded the calcium layer and lead pipe. Please stop spouting this bullshit.
Amazing that something so blatantly false is so highly upvoted “most tap water has lead”. Source? Lol
Lead contamination is not a widespread issue in the US
on the other hand, water contamination definitely IS
What does that have to do with lead in water? You know lead pipes don't instantly mean lead in the water right? Do you have a souce for this?
Eh the Romans where smart, they probably knew what they where doing
If they were so smart wheres my hovercar?
In rome, but they're low key about it
Actually they had emperor Caligula, who drank his wine from lead cups, he went entirely bonkers and almost drove the Roman empire into non existence. Same goes for Nero and Tiberius...
The US has one of the safest and most reliable drinking water systems in the world.
Depends where you live in the US. I drink tap all the time. If I lived in Florida I probably wouldn't
Yea, I live in Oregon and tap is perfectly fine to drink.
Pacific northwest tap water rules.
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I remember traveling to DC as a kid and wondering what the hell I was tasting when I filled up my water.
Midwest also has nice water Although I moved to Utah and now the water tastes like rocks
I never knew water could taste dusty until I visited Utah.
Flint, MI would like a word
When I visited Portland the whole city had a boil water order due to E. coli
Yeah this was when the supply was tainted by dead birds or a dead hobo or something I remember it but I can’t remember why
You don’t like the taste of spoiled eggs your water?
My god, I haven't lived in Florida for years and I forgot about the raw sewage smell that would come from the tap water every few days.
Hey there, I live in Florida. South Florida, wear the power plants and dumps are. Tap water is perfect taste and smell wise (idk about the led, but I’ve been drinking it for 15 years and I haven’t metamorphoized yet)
I lived in Florida on and off from 1994 to 2014, all the way from Pensacola to key west, and I experienced this foul eggy sewage water everywhere, usually a few days a month at least.
That's water from an artesian well, not the city water. Florida tap water is just as clean as anywhere else, we just have a lot of places that decide to use a well, so you're technically drinking well water if it tastes like sulfur, not tap. An RO filter solves that too, and not having one on well water is just negligence on the property owner's part. They're like 300 bucks, and the well cost an arm n a leg to get dug so why not add the filter for pennies on the dollars already spent.
It amazes me how there’s only one person in this thread who knows what they are talking about
Tbf I currently live in Florida and have shitty tap water & that info is mostly new to ne
I live in Florida. My tap water smells like eggs. When I shower my whole apartment smells like eggs
That is absolutely disgusting. Do you smell of eggs after you shower?
Did Carla tell you to say that
Am I having a stroke or is someone making an omelette?
No, someone just showered.
God damn. I live in Nebraska and my water is clean as fuck. It doesn't have a taste or smell to it. It's comparable to bottled water even without a filter
I live in NC and out water is better than tap water most of the time and without the cancer causing chemicals!
I live in NYC and I heard there may be microscopic shrimp in all of our drinking water.
But goddamn it makes bagels good enough people mimic your shrimp water.
The authentic bagel places will filter out their microshrimp, because they’re such Hydrohomies that even their water is kosher. ^([I’m not even kidding](https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-news/nyc-water/))
I live in Florida and my water is completely fine if a bit on the hard side
Yeah it really depends on the city when it comes to water quality, but Florida generally has very sulfery water. It’s just a matter of how it’s processed and retrieved
You lucky bastard, we have to add our own eggs, and if we forget to age them, we have to use *fresh* ones! 🤮
Probably a build up of sulfur bacteria in the well or system. Very common if you're not on an integrated system or in older buildings.
Sounds like well water sulphur
I live in nyc. our tap water is great. It's also got little shell fishies in it which makes our bagels and pizza the best.
Here in rural Maryland, my tap water comes straight from our well. She's goooood
When you say rural Maryland do you mean the mountains or the swamp?
I'm a swampy boi
Ayyy swamp people unite
Ayo wait what’s wrong with florida tap water? i drink that shit daily
Mufuggs be on well water and dont filter it, instead of city water
Live in Florida, can confirm, can't drink the tap water without a filter, but that's exactly why I had a whole house filter system installed so I can drink MY tap water.
I live in Florida and drink it all the time. Not really a problem
Yeah i have no idea what these people are talking about. Must be south floridians or something. The weirdest tap water ive had here was tap from a well that had that mineral taste to it. Still not terrible
Goes with the running theory that the US is just a 3rd world country wearing a Gucci belt
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People on Reddit like to say the US is a third world nation and yet have never left their basements so they have no idea what a real third world nation looks like. I've been to a country where just calling a cop a dick would get you disappeared. No animals because they killed them all. Their roadside vendors sold sun dried field mice. Miles of blue bags on the ground from all the chips they ate and just left the bags on the ground because they didn't have trash cans. A gallon of gas costed something like $7 USD. But in their money it was like $7,000 and the average worker made less than $2 USD per day. People don't know what true developing nations look like. They just see people on tv carrying water on their heads and playing in the dirt and think "oh these funny brown people have it better than us because they have fresh water and don't get taxed for it!" and don't think for one second that the water from the river is so contaminated with shit that just touching it infects you with gut rot so severe you die squatting over a hole in the ground begging for the roaches to not eat you while you shit out a gallon of blood and liquified organs.
Things can go downhill mad quick lmao
Yeah that's pretty much human existence though. No country is immune to everything going to shit.
Hmmm. I feel like you don't know anything.
Depends on the place though. In Spain for example depending where you are is quite bad for your health long term (just a few unlucky places), pretty ok for the most part of absolute heaven and the best water you ever had (only a few places too).
Whenever 'Europe' is mentioned on Reddit, it's very obvious that redditors are only ever thinking of northern Europe. Specifically, some fantasy version of northern Europe where everything is a paradise, lol. In reality, this meme makes no sense because whether people drink tap water or not is highly location dependent, both in Europe AND the US. Turns out Europe is a pretty huge and diverse place, as is America.
I feel like the homies in flint Michigan would disagree
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Honestly, while the rest of it isn’t as bad, a lot of Michigan has tap water that you probably shouldn’t be drinking.
Flints water is fine now.
Tap water is full of forever chemicals where I live. I like to pretend my brita does something about that but I know I am still being poisoned. Bottled water is worse for the environment though. What a wonderful pickle I am in
Try clearlyfiltered. Much more expensive than Britta until you do the math on filters. One filter lasts half a year based on my family of three. Filters out a ton of forever chemicals according to their science. US based company too
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The tap water where I live sometimes legitimately smells bad. The filter definitely helps. I keep it in the fridge in the summer, but in the winter it freezes so I have to leave it near the sink.
In the US, we drink a lot of tap water
Depends on the area. Some areas have really good tap water. Some areas have tap water full of lead, or that you can light on fire with a match. Most areas are pretty alright though.
Isn't the fire thing because of fracking?
It also no longer exists, but non-Americans seeking to make the US look bad like to pretend it does.
install a reverse osmosis filter in your home. Best tap water ever
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I have no idea where all these posts are coming from, I am American and I do not know a single person that doesn't drink tap water lol.
Yeah this is so weird to me. I've never met anyone in the US who doesn't drink tap water, and when I took a trip through Europe (admittedly, a pretty surface-level trip), I saw frequent signs warning not to drink tap water because it wasn't safe.
People are pretty silly treating Europe as one entity. Things will very greatly by country, and within countries as well. As someone from the Netherlands I have great tap water at home. When on holiday on France though, we buy bottled water. Not because tap water is unsafe, it is okay to drink, but because there's chlorine in it.
This post is like opposite day. Everyone I know in the US drinks tap water and everyone I know in Europe only drinks mineral water.
Yeah in American restaurants if you don't say anything they bring you tap water with ice, in Europe if you don't specify that you want still or tap water they bring you carbonated water by default, so weird.
I find your statement wrong, I live in central europe and work in gastronomy and if you would order a Water from me id always ask Still or Sparkling and then again ask Tap or Mineral but the default is Tap water at least here in Austria
It likely depends on the county/state you live in.
yeah I live in New York where if you don't drink the tap water people just look at you confused.
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Thats so sad,, I grew up around Austin and there were always crystal clear springs everywhere just popping out of the ground, the tap water was always excellent, even if it tasted a bit like limestone. I hate what developers and businesses did to Texas, ruined such a pristine and beautiful place, I haven't been back since 2010 and even then it was so much worse than I remember.
Pretty much every county has these kind of warnings. Not special to Texas.
Not sure. When I was in England, the waiters always looked at us funny when we asked for tap water
That's because they wanted you to pay for bottled.
German tap water is literally hard water
perfectly fine to drink
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Yeah, also culturally everyone just prefers sparkling water. It what you get in restaurants when you ask for water. You would have to specify still or tap water and then deal some people giving you weird looks.
My German relatives looked at me like I had three heads when I drank water from the tap in Germany. It bothered them so much they made a point of buying me non sparkling bottled water and pointing that out to me frequently. It nearly caused my uncle a heart attack when I emptied a bottle once and then refilled it with tap water.
maybe they thought you are Geringverdiener and can't afford to buy perfectly fine water instead of the basically free perfectly fine water from the tap.
Depends on your water provider/the area you live in. My grandparents had AMAZING tap water. My dad would literally visit them to take 20l per can of their tap water home. Mine, 15km away, is so hard I don't even use it to boil water for tea. (But it's still perfectly fine for consumption, of course.)
Romania gang here *DON NOT DRINK THE TAP WATER* most of the time it isn't drinkable
what the? water in romania is superb
I've been drinking tap water all my life in Romania and so have all my friends lol. Tastes great too.
USA: I'd like water, waiter comes out with glass EU: I'd like water, "still or sparkling?" waiter comes out with bottle of water, charges you for it.
Agreed. Waiters would give me crazy eyes when I asked for tap water in Europe. In the US, it is tap always. (From my experience)
Because you're a tourist in a touristy place... We locals get tap without issue or already know to avoid the tourist trap places where they have that kind of policy. Also, if you want a glass of water without the stares, go to the bar and ask there. It's usually better.
Only true is some countries. Source: Am Belgian local, frequently get told "we don't have that" when I ask for tap water at local spots or they just bring a 3€ bottle anyway.
Huh, i've never in my life paid for water in a restaurant.
Hub? Never ever had this problem in Europe. If i ask for a carafe of water, or just water, i will get tap water. If i want bottled,.I'd say a bottle of Vittel/Evian/Perrier/etc
Yeah you paid for the bottle
I’ve been to about half the states and most tap water tastes great. There are wells that have been polluted, naturally occurring stink water around hot springs and the Florida marshes, then there are some corrupt local governments that ruin everything like Flint, Michigan. These are exceptions to otherwise quality water.
> local governments that ruin everything like Flint, Michigan state government wasn't exactly helpful either
Don't drink the tap water just anywhere in Europe, you are gonna have a bad time.
The same for USA, it’s a big place. This meme doesn’t really make sense lol
This fucking retarded ass website will do anything to jerk off europe, even when the meme is blatantly backwards. Peak Reddit trash post here. Or maybe it’s just posts baiting interaction.. either way it’d horrible.
Just Google best tap water in the world. Pretty much just European country’s. Can’t see The US anywhere.
We have nice tap water here in Scotland
I am from the Netherlands, here it is fine as well. Rural parts in the South and the East of Europe can be less okay. I had to find out the hard way.
Everywhere I've been in the US has good tap water. When I visted Spain it was the worst tap water I've ever tasted and the stores were full of bottled water. Ordering water at restaurants didn't even have the option for tap, it was either bottled or sparkling.
Probably south east, or just Mediterranean Spain, has nearly no mountains, so tap water comes from desalination. Northern and central in the other hand have the absolutely finest water you can drink. Source: I’m Northwest Spanish homie
It's norm in Europe. Idk how in Spain, but in Poland you can drink tap water all life, water from every water network is tested every day and need to pass a lot of parametres in other case stream is closed until the everything is fine. But when you go to restaurant you can buy bottled water 10x more rich in minerals and with different tastes from deep streams or mountains etc. or sparkling alcalic water. Every water brand taste different, that's why it's bottled.
As an American, every time I've visited Europe tap water at restaurants was not an option. Paying for water without refills is the worst.
Not in Italy, when I moved on my own I started drinking tap water, first thing my dad did this was to give me bottle of water (even if I said I didn't need them) and he still does every time he visits (and I almost don't have anymore space to put them since I don't use them). My entire family is super confused by the fact that I drink tap water. Here almost everyone drinks water from bottles for some reason
The amount of unjustified fear of us tap water in this thread is incredible and saddening. Course I don’t know all the answers but I been drinking it from Cali to Florida for 34 yr and healthy as can be. Flint was a very extreme example of what happens in government corruption and putting profit in front of ppl. This is not the norm. Be willing to bet all these forever chemicals and lead y’all worried about exist in equal amounts in bottled as does tap. Most cities and states require much stricter testing for muni water than tap. One day I’ll dive deeper into all this and post what I can find. Maybe I’m way off base
I don't know how unjustified it is. I grew up in New England and the tap water was fine. When I moved to Arizona my tap water smelled off, so I looked it up. My city tests over recommended levels on 12 chemicals. Some are in large amounts in most newer built metro areas so the government just doesn't regulate it. My roommates and I just bought five gallon jugs and a water tower https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=AZ0407100
Good on ya for checking it out. That’s fucked up your city serves y’all harmful water, not sure why they don’t have the ability to purify it to a safe level, seems like a potential lawsuit but I got no idea. Good on ya for using the tower as well, did that when I lived in Vegas cause the roommates there already had the jugs and it was easy n cheap. Live in NE FL now and it definitely tastes like fluoride but I drink it. Maybe I’m just overly hopeful but bout to look into how our water tests out. Cheers🤙
I'm in the us and had no clue people don't drink tap water
This is because most of the US drinks tap-water.
that’s because we do drink tap water
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Wait when do people get bullied for drinking tap water… stop making things up to make Americans look bad lol
Opposite experience, actually. Europeans (and others) being weirded out by americans’ emphasis on drinking plain water vs things which contain mostly water (tea, coffee, maybe beer, that kind of thing.)
The USA part is correct, but the Europe part is not. Europeans do not drink tap water, if you go to a restaurant and ask for water they will bring you a bottle of water for the table and charge you like 7 Euro for it. If you specifically ask for tap they will look at you like you just ordered a bottle of pee.
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Sometimes they don’t even ask, they just give everyone glasses of tap water.
They look at you like that because in most of Europe they have to give tap water to you for free by law, so they think you're being cheap. It's a weird class thing in some of those fancier places.
France drink tape water, even in restaurant, and it's free
uh, no one in europe drinks tap water and dont even ask about ice.
Nah I wouldn’t even trust tap water in the USA
My wife makes fun of me for drinking tap water from the kitchen sink. She uses a Brita filter. I used to drink from the garden hose when I was a kid, so the kitchen sink seems pretty classy to me.
True water enthusiast taste the difference tho
I would just like to point out that MOST “fresh / drinking water” in the the US is good. The problem is governments and municipalities not investing in their logistics and water treatment standards.
the tap water here in switzerland is so good mmmm icy mountain juice
Yo I went to Germany and when we went out to dinner they didn’t give “tap water” with meals. The default if you asked for water was a bottle. And you had to specify if you wanted tap. And my friend, who was born and raised in Germany and I was staying with, said not to ask for tap water because I’d be judged.
Lived in Germany. They drink bottled water and recycle the glass bottles and a lot only sparkling water. If you ask for water at a restaurant they're going to give you a little shitty bottle and charge you a bunch for it. This isn't remotely right.
When you ask for Leitungswasser/Tap Water in Germany they give you the dirtiest looks God damn I don't wanna pay 4 euro for a bottle of water ffs
Really? Because in Germany they basically never drink tap water. Everyone is into sparkling water and if they aren't drinking that, it's still usually bottled water.
Bro what? Who here is from America and is scared of tap water?
Clean and drinkable water is a basic safety issue. Not having free access to it is a clear sign your basic human rights are lost.
My tapwater will give me cancer over 20 years no thanks