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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/47526
Absolutely not something to be given for granted.
Shoutout to u/UnusualInstance6 on Reddit
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Nestlé:
Water is, unironically, my favourite drink on this earth.
Well, depends on either your definition of “drinkable” or “all” :D
Tap water decreases your microplastic exposure by 90%.
Germany: Takes third option and buys bottled water. Part of the reason is that carbonated water is really popular, and home carbonators are usually kind of difficult/annoying to clean properly. Also, restaurants often won’t serve tap water due to greed.
It’s a generational thing, too, though. At my parents’ place, they’ll look at me like I lost a limb when I drink tap water. Meanwhile, all the homies and homettes drink nothing but tap water.
I’ll never understand countries where restaurants don’t serve tap water for free… It feels so greedy (as you say) and doesn’t make me want to eat there…
The biggest brand of home carbonators (Soda Stream) is an Israeli brand. Just something to think about.
I drink Sprudelwasser with dinner and the rest of the day it’s just tap water. We live in an incredibly hard water area so tap water is basically mineral water.
Hydrate bitches!
As a EU citizen I always buy my water bottled instead of from the tap, not only does it taste better… but my family used to have a water distiller when I was growing up and we sometimes put tap water inside of it and after the distilling process the residue left was disgusting and gooey, even with some rust laced in (this was in the Côte d’Azur for context) in comparison most good quality bottled water just left a trace mineral residue. Safe to say I’d rather drink mineral residue over rust!
Yo, that water come in plastic bottles? You know the plastic leaches forever chemicals into the water. Also, you’ve created a few tonnes of plastic waste by drinking water this way. So well done you.
You don’t want to know how much plastic you drank. Stop that, buy a filter for your tap. Your brand is probably better than Nestle but not much. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/truth-about-nanoplastics-bottled-water
In some EU countries it’s pretty bad tasting though. Too much chlorine for me to really get used to.
Most places treat their water with chlorine or chloramine. Way better than having amoebas but if you can afford a filter do so. Different municipalities treat water differently, look yours up or test to see what you need. I went from carbon filters for chloramine to RO after moving somewhere with worse water
I guess it’s more like most places in some regions.
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Where I grew up it they get 44% pumped groundwater, and 56% from capped sources in the surrounding hills. The water from the sources is UV light treated to kill any organic contaminants, the ground water didn’t need it.
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Where I lived during high school it was all ground water filtered in three stages: ozone, activated carbon, and pH rebalancing, because it was close to a major river that leads into the Rhine.
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Where I live now we get 85% groundwater, and 15% from sources with UV treatment for the sources only again.
So you can imagine that I’m not used to the taste. Visiting some regions in Italy where they chlorinated their water pretty hard, especially in summer, is always kind of a shock taste wise. Though to be fair I gotta say in Torino where I was last year it was completely fine.
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Not feasible to drink tap water in every EU country though.
Even worse, it’s not caffeinated in any EU country.
LPT if you are getting “coffee” every day at Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, a cheap home expresso machine will pay itself in a month. As a bonus you have the option of using actual coffee.
Making things at home will almost always be cheaper but ignores the rituals embedded into capitalism.
That cup of coffee you make at home before you leave does not possess the same psychological comfort as the one you have at the end of your commute just before walking into the office.
Our brain is wired to want specific inputs at specific times in relation to our environment and i sometimes feel like the entire work commute culture is designed to exploit it.
Going somewhere after work to blow of steam has the same vibe. Nothing wrong with that on permis but the opportunity to get you to spend is well understood in business.
Our brain is wired to want specific inputs at specific times
Who’s doing the wiring? 😉
Or Kofola! They also have it from the tap
Too bad they won’t sell restaurants KOFO, the syrup they mix with water and CO₂ to make Kofola, so they could efficiently transport it to the tap. Yes, the country is small so it’s not much of a deal there but there is demand in Czech communities elsewhere, such as Banat (Romania) and a couple US towns.
