Second map is wrong. You can drink the tap water in any country at least once
Well, any country that has tap water.
Ah yes America. The land with safe leaded tap water.
It’s more fuel efficient 😤
Why is America highlighted?
Good question for both maps
Yet another instance of “America is actually 50 countries in a trench coat”. Some places here have really, really good quality tap water that tastes ok even without a drinking water filter on the faucet, and other places… well, everyone knows Flint, MI…
As opposed to other countries, where it’s the same through the whole country
And Italy?
South Africa has some really good tap water, can confirm I am drinking it.
We should enjoy it while we can, it seems that even that is coming to an end.
Hey, I’m not unfriendly. I like Russian escorts and vodka.
I just wish their leaders would be a little more friendly to the rest of the world.
All of South Africas tap water is safe to drink. And Russia considers the SA government their ally.
You know that people can google ‘south Africa tap water’, right?
First result from southafrica.net: ‘tap water is safe to drink in urban areas’. So even the official sources are claiming only urban areas to be safe. If you scroll down to the 2nd result it says ‘47 % of municipal tap water is now classified as non-revenue water’ and ‘46 % of the drinking water systems are safe to drink’
Pretty sure it’s like that in a lot of places… But, even when living 200km from civilization, in a tiny town in the desert, the water from the tap was safe to drink. In the 34 years I lived there I never once got sick from drinking water from the tap.
I just want to say a a resident of the US Midwest, don’t drink the tap water here - it won’t actually kill you but you’ll wish you were dead 😝
Southern US here and it could very well kill you.
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I can’t say it’s still like this, but when I was in Kansas City about 20 years ago, the hotel waiter poured me a glass of water and it tasted amazing and he said it was just tap water.
The map of the US should be a bit more finely-grained to show the MAGA states as Russophiles.
Yeah, like all the Russophiles in Flint, Michigan.
Keep in mind that while they may consider Russia friendly, Russia still considers them unfriendly.
You misspelled ‘useful idiots’.
Russophile is fine, it’s Putin-dick-riding that I take issue with.
Looks like Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia and get a pass on being unfriendly countries, presumably because they aren’t in NATO (despite B&H being an aspiring member).
However Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria, also not in NATO, are still unfriendlies.
Poor Hungary is still counted as unfriendly as they actively run interference on Moscow’s behalf.
Except for Flint, Michigan and Jacksonville, Mississippi.
I live in America and I wouldn’t drink the tap water
You’re part of the minority then. 12% in the USA never drinks tap water. 71% of us drink it at least sometimes. source
The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I’m sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.
The places with forever chemical contamination are also growing.
You might consider updating your thoughts. The water in Flint has been fixed for several years.
The water mains damaged by corrosion were replaced, and the vast majority of household service lines have been replaced.
It’ll take time before people trust the water system fully again, but it’s been independently tested and shown to be fine, with continued monitoring as part of the lawsuit settlement.
The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I’m sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.
Sure, but a town with a population of 80k people doesn’t define a nation. The vast majority of Americans have safe tap water available to drink.
Aren’t “never drinking” and “drinking at least sometimes” collectively exhaustive? So what do the remaining 17% do with their tap water?
Edit: I can’t count this late
Presumably answered other questions on the survey but didn’t say how often they drank tap water.
Always drink tap water? I don’t know how you do that, but whatever. Maybe it means when there’s a choice they always choose tap? Idk.
Wash dishes, bathe, water plants, water balloons, electrolysis, all the good stuff
Can’t speak for everywhere but where I live the water is safe, it just tastes TERRIBLE
Like I’ve accidently tasted deodorant that tasted better
Florida? I’ll never forget that sulfur stank.
A lot of cities in California have problems with hexavalent chromium and arsenic in tap water and nothing is really done about it. It’s naturally occurring, abundant, and really hard to remove from the water.
I’m reading the article you posted as well as a few others I found to explain the science, risk, and scale.
This feels like you’re posting it as more alarmist than it is:
- Its not the result of industrial pollution, as it is sometimes elsewhere in the world.
- This looks like its also a small pocket of population (70,000 people according to your article which is even less than Flint Michigan at its worst)
- California is following a stricter standard double that of the Federal requirement and even then…
- …none of the samples exceed the extra strict safe standards of 50 ppb “The highest reading from a single well came to 42 parts per billion”
But since it’s in California, isn’t there a risk of cancer?
The tap water in NYC is brown lol
I know it’s probably safe to drink through some technicality, but it’s definitely off-putting. We can’t even use it in our humidifier without filtering it
Blame your building then because NYC has great water quality.
Isn’t it the reason the bagels are famous?
Partly? It’s the barley malt they’re boiled with that makes them famous.
Every apartment I’ve lived in has been like this. Nothing I can do because landlords don’t give a single fuck about their buildings. If drinkable tap water is a luxury only the rich can have, then you don’t have drinkable tap water
If you want to understand how incredible NYC’s water system is, watch this Wendover video. It blew my mind.
Of course, shitty landlords with old pipes ruins it for a lot of people, but the hard part is done.
Is the water brown coming out of the water main at the street? Is the brown being added by old piping/water heaters in your house/building?
No no! The ‘brown’ is from the BIPOC woke agenda! Wake up sheeple!
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Unless you’re drinking exclusively spring water, your bottled water is coming from someone else’s municipal tap with an extra fee for bottling on top.
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Is the tap water in Spain alright? When I was in Tenerife recently, I bought bottled water even though I never ever buy it at home. They also had quite a lot of (non carbonated, non flavored) bottled water in the stores compared to my country.
I come from a country with very good tap water so is it possible that the water is technically fine but not great or something you would like to drink?
Why do you assume mainland tap water and tap water on a tiny island far out in the ocean have the same quality? In spain mainland tap water is generally considered drinkable.
I dunno. I just suspected that the government would ensure that the water is of high quality regards of where you are.
I drank tap water all over mainland Spain without issue and my stomach is weak for this sort of thing.
Because the tap water is subject to the same legal framework, that’s why you assume it has the same quality standards.
Well, Tenerife is Spain, but it’s 1700km away, so it’s not the best example.
Still, it depends on where in Spain we talk about, you can see in This map . It’s not that the water is bad, it’s that in many places it has minerals like calcium that gives them undesired taste, but its perfectly safe. I live in one of those black places and most people buy bottled water. I use a Britta.
Indeed, La Palma (just a bit to the west of Tenerife) has amazing tap water. Northern Spain as well.
I thought Chile had drinkable table water. Last time someone posted a UN map, iirc Chile was the sole county in South America highlighted.
A very different map. I’ve never had issues in Argentina.
Yeah, that looks more accurate to me. I knew OP’s map had to be inaccurate when I saw how many countries were missing from the list.
I don’t think we’re un-friendly, I think Russia’s just in a bad place right now and need to take a hard look at themselves and maybe consider whether their recent behaviour matches their values.
And no, they can’t crash on our sofa.
You better wipe America off that list lol. Flint Michigan have water yet?
Yes, they do.
The water mains in question were replaced, and 95% of lead service lines have been replaced.
In any case, you still shouldn’t drink the water in Cancer Alley or East Palestine
How long did that take?
About 3 years for the last supply lines to homes to get replaced. It wasn’t a big deal after about a year.
Sure doesn’t stop people from reposting “StIlL dOeSnT hAvE cLeAn WaTeR” all the damn time…
Also it was always the exception that proves the rule.
US tap water is incredibly safe in nearly the whole country. It makes the issues stand out.
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Not gonna click that. Cya!
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