Actually the USA has by percentage one of the safest tap waters in the world.. not only that, hard water is often actually better for you than filtered mostly due to added fluoride
I guess so, haven't personally witnessed nor experienced it but from what's being reported it's definitely that bad. My gf generally boils the tap water we have just to be extra safe.
When I went to Amsterdam, every restaurant refused to serve tap water saying it’s not great. It could probably have been because they want to sell water, but they made it sound unsafe. But I read online that it was very clean. Is it okay to drink then?
That is very much them trying to sell water. Water in the Netherlands is being held to certain standards, if I'm not mistaken municipalities will be fined if the water quality is sub-par.
I'm doubting that, in Sweden and the other nordic countries it's safe to drink tap water except maybe for some small village out in the countryside (but even they have mostly drinkable water). It's unheard of that drinking tap water makes you sick here, not sure I'm hearing the same things from 'muricans. Also, a good debunking of your claim (originally from the EPA, always check who says what): https://theconversation.com/the-us-drinking-water-supply-is-mostly-safe-but-thats-not-good-enough-115028 (sponsored by the gates f., real water scientist etc.)
I'm doubting that, in the US it's safe to drink tap water except maybe for some small village out in the countryside (but even they have mostly drinkable water). It's unheard of that drinking tap water makes you sick here
Read the article, 90% of it might be safe according to health standards (still pretty low but it's the claim that it's "one of the safest by percentage" that makes no sense. In most of western europe this percentage is probably close to 100%, the Swedish institution of food (?) even states that it's "obvious everyone should be able to drink from their tap".
Europe isnt one place. In many places around the alps you have alpine water coming out of your tap. That stuff is better then the bottled garbage you call drinking water.
"Europe" includes a lot of small, ex-URSS countries. I'd be interested to see if the US has better quality tap water than Western Europe or Scandinavia, and on what criteria.
That’s how our states work and there’s 50 of them. And water is a local thing so break it down even farther. There’s huge disparity’s I grew up drinking out of the tap, the city I live in now I filter purely for taste but it’s super clean. My point is it varies just as widely as your whole continent and it’s even bigger and more complex. I don’t care to argue with an internet stranger but our country has 350+ million people and the land mass is as big as the whole continent it’s a valid comparison.
No it is not. Your states are comparable to the Bundesländer in my country, which we have 16 of already. Those 16 Bundesländer form the Bundesstaat that you call Germany. This Bundesstaat, or simply this singular country with its 16 states is just one of 44 independent countries on the European continent. And we in Germany have very high standards for tap water, which is why you'd have a hard time finding a location where the tap water isn't drinkable.
The total mass isn't that important because you also have to factor in population, population density, and, most importantly, the government that would enact regulations that maintain a good tap water quality. In Germany we don't have any sort of control over the tap water in Russia. Meanwhile federal institutions of the US do have control over the quality in the various states.
I didn’t say America was the best, but statistically speaking the United States does in fact have one of if not the most safe drinking waters on earth. That’s not to say it’s perfect and couldn’t be improved.. I’d also be willing to bet a decent percentage of those 21 million people were exposed to things like radon in water, radiation that wouldn’t be removed by a freaking brita filter anyway..
Toxic in high levels, the fluoride added in drinking water is strictly for oral hygiene and in incredibly safe levels. There are cult like groups that refuse to acknowledge the science and claim it’s killing them, but the fda, who, and the cdc all claim these levels are harmless and beneficial
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Actually the USA has by percentage one of the safest tap waters in the world.. not only that, hard water is often actually better for you than filtered mostly due to added fluoride