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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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