Ever heard the old chestnut ‘don’t believe everything you read on the internet’?
Top 5 countries with the cleanest drinking water in the world:
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– Uzbekistan
– China
– North Korea
– Peru
– Brazil
They are referring to the bottled water in Malta, right?
As a Norwegian this is one of the things I have heard about Malta, that the spring water is safe to drink.
Hopefully this is actually true.
This cannot be true. Canada would definitely be before Malta. They must have used a strange metric for clean. Like least reported incidents or something. The water that comes out of the taps in Malta is awful.
I don’t know if this was just in the hotel I was in, but I remember going to Reykjavik(Capital City of Iceland🇮🇸) and the tap water in the hotel tasted really sweet.
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i’m from Austria we have really good water
Like, what drinking water are they talking about? San Michel or Kristal? Because it definitely isn’t the tap water.
Not liking the taste and being clean are different things, Maltese tap water complies with all the WHO and EU safety standards. The safety of tap water gets regularly audited at the treatment plant and at random local places where they collect samples from.
The taste may be unappealing but from a safety standpoint the water is fine
Naqra sadid, iġibek ħadid.
They haven’t tasted it yet…
You know how malta is constantly upgrading its infrastructure right ;p
It is clean and safe to drink, it just doesn’t taste good
All the “it’s clean but it tastes like shit” bros…have you been abroad? I’ve had waaaay worse tap water. Here I just use a Britta filter – even though you can 100% drink straight from the tap, and it makes the flavour milder. But even without the filter it’s really really really fine.
“Tastes like shit” xD I think our self deprecating culture goes a little too far sometimes.
Ma nafx ghala kulhadd jeqred fuq l-ilma. jien tal vit biss nixrob. familti l-istess. in-nanniet ukoll u ghexu ftit iktar minn disghin sena
All the people drinking straight from tap must really enjoy getting kidney stones later down the line.
Maltese water is extremely hard and kills many appliances. A couple of years doing that and you’re in for a bad time.
That being said, I used to live up the road from a reverse osmosis plant. Our mains pipe was literally a few hundred meters of straight pipe to the RO. THAT WAS LEGIT. Nowhere else comes close.
Lmao, hell nah.
Who made up this list has never been in Malta for sure
How is Scotland not on this list? A 🧢 list
Desalinated water mmm
You forgot about Sweden 🇸🇪
Please for those reading this don’t believe the ones here saying it’s good. Even doctors told me that one should avoid the water in Malta. Even one with braces/retainers would know as after a week of washing them with the tap water here it becomes yellow.
As some one from the Netherlands, our tapwater is treated with ozon instead of chlorine. No chemical taste but just clean water, even better than some bottled mineral water.
The issue with the water here is the old pipes in houses having all that sediment and or rust in them
I wouldn’t drink tap water even if thay pay me lol after RO definitely before not a chance
Im germany you can drink tap water and it tasted like its straight out of a expensive fiji bottle
here in malta the tap water is only chlorine tf
When talking about the chemical characteristics of water ‘clean’ means nothing. It is not a word a chemist would ever use as it makes no sense.
I have just measured the TDS (total dissolved solids) of my tap water and they stand at around 900ppm. The water from my well has a TDS of 150 ppm.
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Ever heard the old chestnut ‘don’t believe everything you read on the internet’?
Top 5 countries with the cleanest drinking water in the world:
​
– Uzbekistan
– China
– North Korea
– Peru
– Brazil
They are referring to the bottled water in Malta, right?
As a Norwegian this is one of the things I have heard about Malta, that the spring water is safe to drink.
Hopefully this is actually true.
This cannot be true. Canada would definitely be before Malta. They must have used a strange metric for clean. Like least reported incidents or something. The water that comes out of the taps in Malta is awful.
I don’t know if this was just in the hotel I was in, but I remember going to Reykjavik(Capital City of Iceland🇮🇸) and the tap water in the hotel tasted really sweet.
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i’m from Austria we have really good water
Like, what drinking water are they talking about? San Michel or Kristal? Because it definitely isn’t the tap water.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/41588/the-island-of-malta#:~:text=Malta%20has%20no%20permanent%20rivers,can%20form%20after%20heavy%20rains. ‘Malta has no permanent rivers or lakes, but temporary waterways can form after heavy rains.’
Not liking the taste and being clean are different things, Maltese tap water complies with all the WHO and EU safety standards. The safety of tap water gets regularly audited at the treatment plant and at random local places where they collect samples from.
The taste may be unappealing but from a safety standpoint the water is fine
Naqra sadid, iġibek ħadid.
They haven’t tasted it yet…
You know how malta is constantly upgrading its infrastructure right ;p
It is clean and safe to drink, it just doesn’t taste good
All the “it’s clean but it tastes like shit” bros…have you been abroad? I’ve had waaaay worse tap water. Here I just use a Britta filter – even though you can 100% drink straight from the tap, and it makes the flavour milder. But even without the filter it’s really really really fine.
“Tastes like shit” xD I think our self deprecating culture goes a little too far sometimes.
Ma nafx ghala kulhadd jeqred fuq l-ilma. jien tal vit biss nixrob. familti l-istess. in-nanniet ukoll u ghexu ftit iktar minn disghin sena
All the people drinking straight from tap must really enjoy getting kidney stones later down the line.
Maltese water is extremely hard and kills many appliances. A couple of years doing that and you’re in for a bad time.
That being said, I used to live up the road from a reverse osmosis plant. Our mains pipe was literally a few hundred meters of straight pipe to the RO. THAT WAS LEGIT. Nowhere else comes close.
Lmao, hell nah.
Who made up this list has never been in Malta for sure
How is Scotland not on this list? A 🧢 list
Desalinated water mmm
You forgot about Sweden 🇸🇪
Please for those reading this don’t believe the ones here saying it’s good. Even doctors told me that one should avoid the water in Malta. Even one with braces/retainers would know as after a week of washing them with the tap water here it becomes yellow.
As some one from the Netherlands, our tapwater is treated with ozon instead of chlorine. No chemical taste but just clean water, even better than some bottled mineral water.
The issue with the water here is the old pipes in houses having all that sediment and or rust in them
I wouldn’t drink tap water even if thay pay me lol after RO definitely before not a chance
Im germany you can drink tap water and it tasted like its straight out of a expensive fiji bottle
here in malta the tap water is only chlorine tf
When talking about the chemical characteristics of water ‘clean’ means nothing. It is not a word a chemist would ever use as it makes no sense.
I have just measured the TDS (total dissolved solids) of my tap water and they stand at around 900ppm. The water from my well has a TDS of 150 ppm.
Take a look at what the EPA recommends for tap water in the USA – 500ppm is the cut off point or the maximum TDS levels considered acceptable. My tap water has double the amount of dissolved solids: https://www.freshwatersystems.com/blogs/blog/what-is-tds-in-water-why-should-you-measure-it