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Some people think tap water tastes bad

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I wouldn’t drink tap water outside of continental Europe. Maybe the original OP is simply in a third world country like the US.

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The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I’ve tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I’ve sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Also the US is not a third world nation, it’s a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that’s not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it’s allies.

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It tasted better in Canberra before the 2013 bushfire, back when it was filtered through pine needles, before they removed all the pine farms

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Canadian tap water is generally good

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Canada’s is good in major cities

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Outside of Continental Europe

Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country

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I wouldn’t trust the plumbing in the UK. They do crazy two-faucet stuff.

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The US has pretty good tap water in most places. Of course there are outliers we are talking about a giant country.

While you are right to trust most tap water in Europe we also have a lot of outliers. Old plumbing being probably the biggest problem. But also the taste can be atrocious. The worst tasting tap water I ever needed to drink was in Barcelona.

Edit: and the worst looking tap water I ever saw was in Paris. (It was old pipes or something as it was brown, almost red)

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