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.
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:
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Hegar@fedia.io 5 months 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.
psud@aussie.zone 5 months 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 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 5 months ago
Indeed. You can tell if it’s straight out of Googong Dam also.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 5 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.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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…
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psud@aussie.zone 5 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
Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Canadian tap water is generally good
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fuck off, racist piece of shit.
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Canada’s is good in major cities