Some simple statistics reported via Belga. Thought I’d make a post where the 20% who don’t drink tap water at home and the 80% who do can meet each other.
(Edit: what’s the percentage that only drink beer?)
I’m not “afraid to” but I think it’s more polite that way.
Limburg tapwater is life
Just get a water filter already. Aquaphor is great (that’s what most specialty coffee places advise to buy). If you wanna make it fancy for your guests (aka “from a good looking container”), Aarke is a good brand as well.
If you still wanna pay for your overpriced plastic water bottles, feel free to do so as well. It comes with free microplastics as well.
I always drink tap water, makes no sense to buy anything else when this is available.
However when I have guests I’ll always serve Evian or Chaudfontaine.
Tap water, always. Bottled water is (in _most_ cases) a burden to the planet.
I dont have bottled water at home so it’s either tap water, coffee, tea or craftbeer. I dont have sodas either. Drinken wat de pot schaft
I’m even afraid to use it myself. Why should I offer my guests something I don’t trust myself ?
Because we serve beer, wine or coffee.
/s
If my water wouldn’t be so hard i would drink it. I tried brita filters and such.. i always get more thirsty when i drink it.
They get coffee… made with tap water.
How is current state of lead and or asbestos pipes? I’m in north-limburg and drank tap all my life and so do my kids. We also have zero calc or iron in it.
those darn Flemings.
I can understand some people are put off by tap water when it doesn´t taste well. Mostly that a personal matter of… taste.
My wife for example doesn´t like to drink tap water straight from the faucet at home (well, in a glass). With a Britta filter it´s just fine for her. I don´t care either way. Mostly I´m just too lazy to open the fridge.
Where my grandparents used to live, the water had a strong iron taste. I kinda liked that. It came from their own 100m or so deep well though, not the water company.
In some places tap water has a noticeable calcium taste. There I´d prefer it to be filtered.
And lazy again, why bother lugging around bottled water when you don´t need to?
No matter how much Vlaanderen protests it is utterly French. It would take generations of re-education camps to make it Dutch.
I got scared after the whole PFAS debacle. I have a friend who works in food regulation and he is concerned. I’ve heard more than one doctor express concern about it on the radio.
That, plus the fact that my boyfriend, who moved in, hates the taste, and that I found a way (Andy drinks) to get water in glass bottles (it’s not like micro plastics are better than PFAS…) delivered to my home, for now, keeps me buying water instead of drinking from the tap, which I did for years.
Not afraid to serve or drink tap water, but I do keep some bottles around. If I don’t have the visual bottle, I forget to drink regularly. I’ve tried water filters, refillable canisters,.. I forget. So bottles it is.
You want still or sparkling water in my house? Then it’ll be (filtered and cooled) tap water. It’s that, or coffee made with tap water. Anything else is something we happen to have by chance.
‘nearly half’ is not ‘most’.
Ben using Brita filters for years. Havent bought bottled water in ages for home use. Only on the road will I buy spa bottled water.
I consider tap water good enough for myself, I want to treat my guests to what I deem “the good stuff”.
I mostly drank tap water in the the other countries that Iived in (Portugal and Switzerland) but I always heard bad publicity regarding the water quality in Belgium and France, plus it tastes a little bad (In Antwerp at least) so I always thought that most Belgian people (almost) never drank tap water
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Some simple statistics reported via Belga. Thought I’d make a post where the 20% who don’t drink tap water at home and the 80% who do can meet each other.
(Edit: what’s the percentage that only drink beer?)
I’m not “afraid to” but I think it’s more polite that way.
Limburg tapwater is life
Just get a water filter already. Aquaphor is great (that’s what most specialty coffee places advise to buy). If you wanna make it fancy for your guests (aka “from a good looking container”), Aarke is a good brand as well.
If you still wanna pay for your overpriced plastic water bottles, feel free to do so as well. It comes with free microplastics as well.
I always drink tap water, makes no sense to buy anything else when this is available.
However when I have guests I’ll always serve Evian or Chaudfontaine.
Tap water, always. Bottled water is (in _most_ cases) a burden to the planet.
I dont have bottled water at home so it’s either tap water, coffee, tea or craftbeer. I dont have sodas either. Drinken wat de pot schaft
I’m even afraid to use it myself. Why should I offer my guests something I don’t trust myself ?
Because we serve beer, wine or coffee.
/s
If my water wouldn’t be so hard i would drink it. I tried brita filters and such.. i always get more thirsty when i drink it.
They get coffee… made with tap water.
How is current state of lead and or asbestos pipes? I’m in north-limburg and drank tap all my life and so do my kids. We also have zero calc or iron in it.
those darn Flemings.
I can understand some people are put off by tap water when it doesn´t taste well. Mostly that a personal matter of… taste.
My wife for example doesn´t like to drink tap water straight from the faucet at home (well, in a glass). With a Britta filter it´s just fine for her. I don´t care either way. Mostly I´m just too lazy to open the fridge.
Where my grandparents used to live, the water had a strong iron taste. I kinda liked that. It came from their own 100m or so deep well though, not the water company.
In some places tap water has a noticeable calcium taste. There I´d prefer it to be filtered.
And lazy again, why bother lugging around bottled water when you don´t need to?
No matter how much Vlaanderen protests it is utterly French. It would take generations of re-education camps to make it Dutch.
I got scared after the whole PFAS debacle. I have a friend who works in food regulation and he is concerned. I’ve heard more than one doctor express concern about it on the radio.
That, plus the fact that my boyfriend, who moved in, hates the taste, and that I found a way (Andy drinks) to get water in glass bottles (it’s not like micro plastics are better than PFAS…) delivered to my home, for now, keeps me buying water instead of drinking from the tap, which I did for years.
Not afraid to serve or drink tap water, but I do keep some bottles around. If I don’t have the visual bottle, I forget to drink regularly. I’ve tried water filters, refillable canisters,.. I forget. So bottles it is.
You want still or sparkling water in my house? Then it’ll be (filtered and cooled) tap water. It’s that, or coffee made with tap water. Anything else is something we happen to have by chance.
‘nearly half’ is not ‘most’.
Ben using Brita filters for years. Havent bought bottled water in ages for home use. Only on the road will I buy spa bottled water.
I consider tap water good enough for myself, I want to treat my guests to what I deem “the good stuff”.
I mostly drank tap water in the the other countries that Iived in (Portugal and Switzerland) but I always heard bad publicity regarding the water quality in Belgium and France, plus it tastes a little bad (In Antwerp at least) so I always thought that most Belgian people (almost) never drank tap water
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