I wonder what does Italy do that their water consumption per person is almost 5x as much as in Malta. Is it because of watering the fields and plants in rural areas? It clearly has bigger players here than drinking tap and boiling pasta.
It took me a while to realise that this is total use of drinkable tap water per person per day, rather than amount of tap water actually drunk per person per day.
I am guessing that a lot of the difference comes down to showers vs baths and use of sprinklers/hosepipes.
For Romania, the reasons are, mostly:
1. in rural areas most people still use wells, I do not even know how much of the rural ppulation even has access to tap water. The wells are checked by inspectors once in a while to check if the water is safe to drink, so it is not as dodgy as it sounds.
2. in urban areas, elderly people are typically obsessed with saving on anything, so they don’t take daily showers and stuff
Us Irish are making a fuck ton of tea or or pipes are a lot worse than we were lead to believe
Water consuming pasta..
Would be interesting to see one showing how much people actually drink. Most people I know drink bottled water.
I’m surprised Italy came top considering they are the biggest consumers of bottled water in Europe.
50% comes from groundwater? What a terrifying thought.
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I wonder what does Italy do that their water consumption per person is almost 5x as much as in Malta. Is it because of watering the fields and plants in rural areas? It clearly has bigger players here than drinking tap and boiling pasta.
It took me a while to realise that this is total use of drinkable tap water per person per day, rather than amount of tap water actually drunk per person per day.
I am guessing that a lot of the difference comes down to showers vs baths and use of sprinklers/hosepipes.
For Romania, the reasons are, mostly:
1. in rural areas most people still use wells, I do not even know how much of the rural ppulation even has access to tap water. The wells are checked by inspectors once in a while to check if the water is safe to drink, so it is not as dodgy as it sounds.
2. in urban areas, elderly people are typically obsessed with saving on anything, so they don’t take daily showers and stuff
Us Irish are making a fuck ton of tea or or pipes are a lot worse than we were lead to believe
Water consuming pasta..
Would be interesting to see one showing how much people actually drink. Most people I know drink bottled water.
I’m surprised Italy came top considering they are the biggest consumers of bottled water in Europe.
50% comes from groundwater? What a terrifying thought.