Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel

• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If your in the mountains, the tap water is better than most bottled water.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A lot of the mineral water you buy is tap water. It’s the same water the people in the area where the water is bottled drink. It even says so on the bottle sometimes.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, IMO not Italian bottled water and definitely not sparkling.

    It’s the only country having better sparkling water than France even.

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• kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tap water is good here in the Alps.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  assuming we’re not talking about sparkling water, which some people call mineral water: Is it really that common outside of america for tap water to not taste fine?
  I’ve never had bottled water where the taste was in any way remarkable, except from some brands that just taste like stale water where the plastic bottle leeched into it…

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well then you have to go on a tour to france/italy, their sparkling water is fantastic (slightly fresh of course).

    Especially good on the terrace of a café in the spring …

    In sweden they sell stale water and leftover wine so (gissar att du är svensk 😁?)

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got an RO filter for my drinking water at home. I haven’t tried a bottled water that I like as much as my RO tap water. I suspect that even if I filled a plastic water bottle with that water and let it sit for the expected duration a bought one would sit for, it would also not be as good. I don’t think plastic is as inert of a material as we like to pretend it is, or that BPA is the only bad plastic chemical to avoid.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good for you to have decent tap water!

    But real mineral water is another beast, you can’t make that at home.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are six stage setups that add back minerals to tap water and I also have the quooker cube which sparkles it. Fab stuff

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      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fascinating!

        I have a SodaStream that would be the equivalent of your Quoker Cube I imagine. Do you add minerals to your drinking water?

        I had a filter for my coffee machine where you could tweak what you wanted removed (scale) and how much you wanted the rest filtered, but I have never come across adding things back!

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• EnderLaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The water was still.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guessed so, tap water is rarely sparkling 😁

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