That’s mostly due to many Germans preferring carbonated water though.
You may have a good quality water, if it’s hard water, you have to buy a bottle from time to time. Especially if you’re pregnant, old or very young.
Well if you are visiting another city or something, you typically don’t have access to tap water
Bottled water? La Croix? Wi-fi?
This is insanity to me. I only buy bottled water when on I’m on a trip and it’s the only choice.
I mean, tap water is good, but there might be many reasons to get bottled water (though perhaps not on this scale). Such as:
– water quality (hardness or acidity)
– carbonation (preference or because of problems swallowing fluids) Can if course be solved with a Sodastreamer-like apparatus, but that requires soecial equioment, and you have to go to a store that carries it to get/exchange a gas tube from time to time
– flavors
– accessability (e.g. if you’re on a trip)
– your pipes are frozen or there’s a (bigger) leak
I literally haven’t drunk from a plastic water bottle (at least while at home) in years.
I just use the sparkling water maker on reusable bottles filled with tap water.
Bottled water is less healthy than tap water in Sweden
Title is a bit misleading; it does not state that all countries depicted have good water quality, but just that germans, despite having good quality tap water, prefer bottled. There are certainly parts of Italy where regularly drinking tap water can be quite the gamble on your health.
It always drives me nuts seeing my fellow countrymen buying water bottles when their tap water is amazing
The tap water where I live is not drinkable so we’re forced to buy water bottles, luckily recently they’ve installed a couple of spots where there are dispensers of purified tap water which cost much less than bottled water but still it is a pain having to go and get water everyday; I guess that’s a better version of what most people who live in places with no running water do but still
Some of the tap water I’ve tried in other cities here in Italy tasted great, I distinctly remember taking a shower and being amazed by the sensation and taste of the water. I grew up thinking that all tap water tasted awful.
If I had access to that water you would never see me buying a bottle of water ever again
One thing I noticed is that bottled water is very cheap in Italy: You can buy a 6 bottle pack at about 0.2 €/l or even less. I always found much higher prices abroad (Germany, France, even Spain)
My tap water is literally being bottled by Coca-Cola to be sold under the Vio brand.
I’ve legit never drunk bottled water thats better than whats coming out of my tap.
The alps and our stupid good water supply dudes <3
I mean the tap water is milano is good but High in calcium so… people here prefer bottled ones. I have a water man who gives my like 24 bottles of aqua and 6 of frizzante every week. He takes the old glass ones back and gives me new ones. Only problem is I have to fucking wake up at 7 Am on a Saturday coz he keeps honking until someone comes down or someone starts throwing shit at his truck in the morning..
I wouldn’t call water quality in Germany that good.
I mean yes of course it’s perfectly fine to drink which is much more than in a lot of the world. But for a first world country? Can’t tell you how often they flush the water with chlorine to fight bacterial threats instead of fixing the actual cause of those. Or how hard the water is which causes damage to pretty much any appliance over time.
And as others have said, tap water ain’t carbonated.
Maybe related, but I noticed that in some places the tap water tastes weird, not sure if it has to do with the hardness.
bottled water in Italy is almost a criminal business. 1) italy charges something like $100 per year to license use otherwise public springs to water brands 2) they produce millions of waste in plastic bottles and pay nothing for their disposal 3) the price of bottled water is way above the price of gas at the pump 4) italian tap water is extremely good, except for those areas with really old pipes
I’ve never seen anyone buy still bottled water in Denmark for anything other than practical reasons.
I’m really surprised that Germany is ahead of spain. In Germany I always drink tab water but in Spain it tastes like drinking from a swimming pool
I have been drinking tap water for so long that I don’t even remember the last time I had bottled water
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That’s mostly due to many Germans preferring carbonated water though.
You may have a good quality water, if it’s hard water, you have to buy a bottle from time to time. Especially if you’re pregnant, old or very young.
Well if you are visiting another city or something, you typically don’t have access to tap water
Bottled water? La Croix? Wi-fi?
This is insanity to me. I only buy bottled water when on I’m on a trip and it’s the only choice.
I mean, tap water is good, but there might be many reasons to get bottled water (though perhaps not on this scale). Such as:
– water quality (hardness or acidity)
– carbonation (preference or because of problems swallowing fluids) Can if course be solved with a Sodastreamer-like apparatus, but that requires soecial equioment, and you have to go to a store that carries it to get/exchange a gas tube from time to time
– flavors
– accessability (e.g. if you’re on a trip)
– your pipes are frozen or there’s a (bigger) leak
I literally haven’t drunk from a plastic water bottle (at least while at home) in years.
I just use the sparkling water maker on reusable bottles filled with tap water.
Bottled water is less healthy than tap water in Sweden
Title is a bit misleading; it does not state that all countries depicted have good water quality, but just that germans, despite having good quality tap water, prefer bottled. There are certainly parts of Italy where regularly drinking tap water can be quite the gamble on your health.
It always drives me nuts seeing my fellow countrymen buying water bottles when their tap water is amazing
The tap water where I live is not drinkable so we’re forced to buy water bottles, luckily recently they’ve installed a couple of spots where there are dispensers of purified tap water which cost much less than bottled water but still it is a pain having to go and get water everyday; I guess that’s a better version of what most people who live in places with no running water do but still
Some of the tap water I’ve tried in other cities here in Italy tasted great, I distinctly remember taking a shower and being amazed by the sensation and taste of the water. I grew up thinking that all tap water tasted awful.
If I had access to that water you would never see me buying a bottle of water ever again
One thing I noticed is that bottled water is very cheap in Italy: You can buy a 6 bottle pack at about 0.2 €/l or even less. I always found much higher prices abroad (Germany, France, even Spain)
My tap water is literally being bottled by Coca-Cola to be sold under the Vio brand.
I’ve legit never drunk bottled water thats better than whats coming out of my tap.
The alps and our stupid good water supply dudes <3
I mean the tap water is milano is good but High in calcium so… people here prefer bottled ones. I have a water man who gives my like 24 bottles of aqua and 6 of frizzante every week. He takes the old glass ones back and gives me new ones. Only problem is I have to fucking wake up at 7 Am on a Saturday coz he keeps honking until someone comes down or someone starts throwing shit at his truck in the morning..
I wouldn’t call water quality in Germany that good.
I mean yes of course it’s perfectly fine to drink which is much more than in a lot of the world. But for a first world country? Can’t tell you how often they flush the water with chlorine to fight bacterial threats instead of fixing the actual cause of those. Or how hard the water is which causes damage to pretty much any appliance over time.
And as others have said, tap water ain’t carbonated.
Maybe related, but I noticed that in some places the tap water tastes weird, not sure if it has to do with the hardness.
bottled water in Italy is almost a criminal business. 1) italy charges something like $100 per year to license use otherwise public springs to water brands 2) they produce millions of waste in plastic bottles and pay nothing for their disposal 3) the price of bottled water is way above the price of gas at the pump 4) italian tap water is extremely good, except for those areas with really old pipes
I’ve never seen anyone buy still bottled water in Denmark for anything other than practical reasons.
I’m really surprised that Germany is ahead of spain. In Germany I always drink tab water but in Spain it tastes like drinking from a swimming pool
I have been drinking tap water for so long that I don’t even remember the last time I had bottled water