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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or just bring an empty bottle through and fill it up at the tap/water fountain?

[–] AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some people think tap water tastes bad

[–] teletext@reddthat.com -2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 1 points 3 months 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 1 points 3 months ago

Indeed. You can tell if it's straight out of Googong Dam also.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

Edit: and the worst looking tap water I ever saw was in Paris. (It was old pipes or something as it was brown, almost red)

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Canadian tap water is generally good

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Outside of Continental Europe

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:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country

[–] teletext@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust the plumbing in the UK. They do crazy two-faucet stuff.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months 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

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Canada's is good in major cities

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

If it exists and you can find it ...