The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Also the US is not a third world nation, it's a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that's not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it's allies.
Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.
The US has pretty good tap water in most places. Of course there are outliers we are talking about a giant country.
While you are right to trust most tap water in Europe we also have a lot of outliers. Old plumbing being probably the biggest problem. But also the taste can be atrocious. The worst tasting tap water I ever needed to drink was in Barcelona.
Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:
teletext@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I wouldn’t drink tap water outside of continental Europe. Maybe the original OP is simply in a third world country like the US.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 month ago
The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Also the US is not a third world nation, it's a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that's not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it's allies.
psud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
It tasted better in Canberra before the 2013 bushfire, back when it was filtered through pine needles, before they removed all the pine farms
Hegar@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.
Bummer to hear that's changed!
xaera@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Indeed. You can tell if it’s straight out of Googong Dam also.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The US has pretty good tap water in most places. Of course there are outliers we are talking about a giant country.
While you are right to trust most tap water in Europe we also have a lot of outliers. Old plumbing being probably the biggest problem. But also the taste can be atrocious. The worst tasting tap water I ever needed to drink was in Barcelona.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:
worldpopulationreview.com/…/water-quality-by-coun…
teletext@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
I wouldn’t trust the plumbing in the UK. They do crazy two-faucet stuff.
psud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
That two tap stuff makes the cold water safe. Don’t drink from the hot tap where they don’t dare mix hot and cold
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Canadian tap water is generally good
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Fuck off, racist piece of shit.
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Canada’s is good in major cities