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gaviIs your tap water drinkable? Please boost if you can.. I wanna see something…
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cuan_knaggs@gavi cape town, south africa
Haelus Novak@gavi We were told explicitly by our landlord that he doesn't even drink his own well water... But we don't pay utilities so there's that at least, given how outrageous rent can be here. It's an affordable* if not inconvenient trade-off. I'd like to afford a water testing kit lolol
Nicola@HaelusNovak @gavi I once had a x-week long bout of crypto thanks to well water getting tainted by snow melt, so I don't trust any unfiltered drinking water anymore.
Corvid CroneI got a water testing kit from Amazon for $20 after my MIL had my FIL switch up the water connections and our water (not theirs) turned orange 🙃
She had had him reconnect our water to bypass the filter and was giving us unfiltered well water from an unmaintained well contaminated with livestock and illegal leech field run off.
When we tested it, the manganese in the water was so over the limit, it was literally off the chart. We moved.
Marc Haber@gavi More strictly controlled than bottled drinking water.
I still like it to taste a bit.
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Adrian Morales@gavi Absolutely it is. I have my own pipes. I also keep track of the quality of the water that is being distributed to my household by the City.
I have the lowest values of Chlorine (Cl2).
Gatekeeper..@adrianmorales @gavi
Buy a cheap fish for a few pennies and put it in a glass of your water. see how long it last.
Buy a cheap fish for a few pennies and put it in a glass of your water. see how long it last.
Peter Brown@GatekeepKen @adrianmorales @gavi sounds pretty cruel, as most tapwater will be treated to a greater or lesser degree with chlorine, which is toxic to fish
@peterbrown @adrianmorales @gavi
Yes, we still use an outdated means of purification. What do you think Chlorine and flouride do to your bacteria and flora in your digestive system. The gut IS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM .
Yes, we still use an outdated means of purification. What do you think Chlorine and flouride do to your bacteria and flora in your digestive system. The gut IS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM .
@GatekeepKen @peterbrown @adrianmorales @gavi
You're supposed to have fluoride in the water. It's good for your teeth.
Martijn van Dijk@gavi My tap water at home (NL) tastes better than most mineral water out there. While taste quality varies from place to place, tap water is perfectly drinkable everywhere in the Netherlands.
@gavi The water at my place of work tastes absolutely vile without putting it through an activated carbon filter first though. Yet, I'm not concerned about safety.
Lili@gavi Answered "kinda," it's safe to drink, but tastes awfully and I had better ones in the past.
Cegorach@gavi europe, so: of course
Riku Mattila 
@gavi Yeah, but it comes from the backyard well.
Axel Foley@gavi Delicious tap water here in South Lanarkshire 🏴
RaghnallD@gavi I'm in the south of Scotland, of course it's drinkable.
I've even been known to add a single drop (never any more) to a glass of malt. After all, there's enough water in whisky already!
Ember is so tired of people. 
@gavi technically yes, but the taste is highly debated
Charlotte Walker@gavi @charllthomas It’s perfectly healthy to drink but it tastes awful
Jonathan Kamens 86 47@gavi Boston MA baby, best in the country (and no lead in our service pipe)
James Scholes@gavi I'm in central Mexico. The water is drinkable through a filter, but I wouldn't risk it without so I voted "no".
🌕 Chelsea 🌻📚@gavi Wow this post blew up quickly lol.
Mine isn't going to kill me or anything, but it sure does taste and smell off-putting so I don't drink it directly from the tap.
Rajnhildo Ursidino 
@gavi I mostly use it for tea or coffee. With a clean cup it is fully drinkable, but cyclical sensitive teeth make that a questionable proposition.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@gavi
Ottawa, Ontario, just about the best drinking water anywhere.
Ann H@gavi @quixoticgeek not only drinkable, tastes fantastic. CH.
MaxTheFox@gavi Yes but I'm in not in America so idk how relevant this is to what you want to see.
Axel Gutmann@gavi The tap water here in #Karlsruhe is actually way better than most bottled waters (and more tightly controlled too).
Willow (she/her)@gavi fun fact: the place where I live wins award for best tasting tap water in the world.
Halla Rempt@gavi It's even very delicious.
twilwel antifascist@gavi I always took it for granted that our tap water in the Netherlands was safe, but just the other day e-coli bacteria infection was found in the tap water and two cities had to boil their water for three days. It's unclear what the cause was.
Steven@gavi Netherlands here. Our family only drinks tapwater. There is no reason to buy bottled water.
Urban Hermit@gavi I live in Oregon. We get a lot of rain & have good public utilities, so water is abundant and exceptional. Wasting plastic by buying water is frowned upon. But in rural areas, on a well, you need to get it tested for arsenic, which is common and natural to the geology.
I lived in the finger lakes region of New York for a year. The water was alkaline out of the tap, so bad that it would neutralize instant tea or lemonade. Leaving a pitcher in the fridge overnight let the chloramine escape.
Ryan 
@gavi Jakarta so no.
@gavi my tapwater is technically drinkable, but I personally don't drink it, because even filtered, it still tastes like crap.
shork@gavi tap water in Germany has stronger regulations than bottled water
Lefin Zeristhyra- foxiepaws@gavi it’s technically safe to consume but it tastes kinda bad and is harder than we’d like
Jerome@gavi Munich, one of the best in Europe. Works done a century or so ago to secure access to good water for the local breweries...
RevK 
@gavi Certainly in UK something would be very wrong if not so.
P.S. don't rule out something very wrong in UK right now.
Jason Sullivan@gavi Any tap water is drinkable once!
Zack Weinberg@gavi It will be fine if the city ever gets around to replacing all the lead pipes in my neighborhood; until then, filtration is required.
Quezovercoatl quietly@gavi I am currently living in Florida in the USA. When we moved down here, one question we always asked the real estate agent was whether the tap water was safe to drink. Most agents assured us that it was, but one said that she couldn't answer the question as she never drank the tap water. I think she said that she only ever had it boiled (for tea or coffee, I assume) and otherwise drank bottled water.
The water here is definitely full of minerals and can smell slightly sulfurous sometimes.
Eric LawtonIt's from a well in a glacial moraine.
Bacteria free, a little hard. We have to make sure Nestlé doesn't get their hands on it as they do in a nearby municipality for $3.7 per MILLION litres.
szescstopni@EricLawton @gavi I'd have to look at hydrological maps to make sure what our source exactly is. All I know is the well is 33 metres deep and the water is great.
stephie 
@gavi
I'm from Germany, region of Hamburg. Our tap water here has very good drinking water quality.
I'm from Germany, region of Hamburg. Our tap water here has very good drinking water quality.
Mark de Vries 🇪🇺@gavi It’s the best tasting water in the world!
Chuso Pérez@gavi Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but you know Mastodon already has an option to see the results without voting so you wouldn't need to add a vote to see the results? 😃
I don't know if that is specific to Mastodon or it would work with any fediverse software though.
I don't know if that is specific to Mastodon or it would work with any fediverse software though.
Rabbit Cohen@gavi Drinkable like "not dangerous" or drinkable like "not gross"?
@BathysphereHat drinkable like not dangerous
@gavi Ahh, ok. It's drinkable here, but it has like this fucked up carcinogenic chemical that also ruins your thyroid in it where my parents live.
Jule Bambule@gavi Here in Germany tap water is drinkable.
I travelled to a lots of places where you have to boil the water before drinking (much more worse: boil it before you use it anyway), or you have to buy bottled water.
It is a privilege to have clean tap water everywhere.
Serge 🔻@gavi Europe, so yes. Regulations are stricter than for even bottled water afaik. It’s not like it is laced with lead because that’s cheaper than delivering actually drinkable tap water to people's homes.
Dawn Tåke 🌙 
@gavi
We use the home from the Simpsons, "if it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back."
Though really it's alright. Small municipal water. Sometimes it gets converted to large municipal source if there is too much road salt in the water. Its fine by and large. I filter more for taste. It is hard somehow.
I DID get traveler's diarrhea in Norway, though that happens whenever I go somewhere new.
Petunientopf@gavi what do you exactly mean? The water in germany has good quality but doesn't taste in some regions. Here in Leipzig I can only drink it as tea or with gas, why I have a soda stream. In munich and even Berlin it tastes much better.
mccraigmccraig@gavi i don't think I'm in any danger from infectious agents in the tap water, but the chlorine taste is unpleasant enough that i had to get a filter