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PrimordialSoup, 2 years ago in What advice do you have to share with the random folks of lemmy?

Do not trust spez

DaleGribble88, 2 years ago in What advice do you have to share with the random folks of lemmy?

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Also, good enough is good enough. And if it’s not, well then, it wasn’t good enough then, was it?

Vertelleus, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

US here. Yes, can confirm I can, and do drink water from the tap without boiling. The city provides, maintains, and regularly checks the safety of the water. Notices are put out if something damages the pipes and a “water boiling” policy is put out promptly over local radio and/or newspaper.

ElkanNixed, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Yep, in the Netherlands we drink tap water all the time. No reason to boil it, except for tea of coffee of course.

pumpkin, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.

Wrrzag, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Spainiard here. You can drink tap water everywhere (that’s connected to the drinking water network, obviously), but there are better tasting waters than others. Madrid’s water is bad, Barcelona’s is atrocious (I don’t know anyone living there that doesn’t buy bottled water, it even gives weird flavours when cooking), but other places are nicer. My town’s water is awesome, I just fill up bottles from the tap and put them in the fridge for easy cold water and laugh at the camacus.

Ministar, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Croatia here,

tap water is completely drinkable and safe without any boiling. Exception are some more remote islands, so if you are going on some island, chekc if the tap water is drinkable.

Fun fact: Croatia actually uses drinkable water for toilets as well, altough i would not drink from a toilet :)

infamousbelgian, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Belgium: yes! We drink tap water. Straight from the tap. Hardness varies from city to city. At my home I have a filter to make the water softer. That helps the taste but also keeps all faucets etc running.

andyMFK, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Australian here, never met anyone who boils tap water before drinking it. Some people have filtered water taps installed but our tap water is usually pretty great, I drink probably 2-3 litres of it a day

truami, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Netherlands, yes we drink straight from the tap. We’re in the top 5 of safest drinking water in the world. Buying bottles of water is a marketing trick for fools out here.

Underwaterbob, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

We filter our tap water here in Korea. Most people do, but as I understand, it’s safe to drink it just straight from the tap. It’s just better through a machine that gets rid of any lingering chlorine and heats it or chills it for you.

boopdepop, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

I visited australia and we had to drink from the tap.

nameisnotimportant, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Switzerland here,

Yes we absolutely drink tap water here, not only it is well regulated but it may also beat many bottled water in terms of taste…

closure1170, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

Eastern US here. Definitely can drink without boiling. I do filter it, though. I’m more concerned about metals and particulates than pathogens.

mub, 2 years ago in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

UK. Yip. Water “hardness” varies across the country which means people usually prefer the taste of the water in the region they grow up in. Other than all the leaky underground pipes and lack of investment in a privatised service, UK water is actaully very good.