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Seriously guys! It’s drinkable in all EU countries! (europe.pub)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/47526

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

As a EU citizen I always buy my water bottled instead of from the tap, not only does it taste better.. but my family used to have a water distiller when I was growing up and we sometimes put tap water inside of it and after the distilling process the residue left was disgusting and gooey, even with some rust laced in (this was in the Côte d'Azur for context) in comparison most good quality bottled water just left a trace mineral residue. Safe to say I'd rather drink mineral residue over rust!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

In some EU countries it's pretty bad tasting though. Too much chlorine for me to really get used to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Yeah. I'll drink tap water if I need to, but I'm not such a huge fan of limestone. I know it's not bad for me and in sane amounts it doesn't affect the flavour too much, but my tap water has way too much.

I've lived in other cities in the same country where water tasted way better. So it's not that I've ruined my taste buds by drinking copious amounts of carbonated mineral water, it's that in the particular city I live, every apartment has had kinda shit tap water. Of course it's all city water.

My friend's parents' home has tap water that comes from a spring on their own property. It has a lot of iron and that water tastes pretty damn good. My own childhood home has a well that the pump lifts water from. It's not excellent, but it's still better than the tap water in my current city.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Chlorine is kinda fragile, you can boil it or use uv (sunlight) to break it down. I find Melbourne water tastes bleachy from the tap.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You guys drink donuts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You don't just stab a straw into a creme filled doughnut to slurp out all the creme?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

I've found it easier to just stab the original carton

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Better for your teef as well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

The amount of bottled water in the EU is insane, lol. I'd always Google it just to be sure, but the tap water is always drinkable, so I try to do that instead of buying a ton of bottles (or getting them at restaurants. I wish parts of the EU had more water fountains and refill stations for metal water bottles.

I'm guessing it's more of a cultural thing from the postwar reconstruction?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

The reason behind bottled water is a mixture of bad taste, hardness and lack of trust for watter supply (age related thing). Hence why additional filters have become somewhat popular (from small bottles with built-in filters that you fill on the go up to large separate installations that filter water for entire house). Everything depends on type of water available in certain areas. Cities by the mountains are the best in that aspect as they are often supplied with water directly from the mountains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

It's because aside from a few countries, everyone puts chlorine in their water. It stinks and tastes awefull

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Officially tap water in Malta is drinkable but somehow several hotels I visited have instructed not to drink tap water and office I used had water filters installed on tap.

There is problems in EU countries too so I would not always trust the official declaration especially when country has higher level corruption - example like Malta.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's not always drinkable, especially not as a tourist.

I wouldn't drink tap water in Crete for instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the rules are always a bit different for islands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Just an example, there's plenty other instances of towns and areas.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 12 hours ago

Nestlé:

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