Asklemmy

Your examples, yes, but I also dont know of any European country where you need to boil the water you drink.

Asian that’s moved to the U.K. here.

Back home, when I grew up I’ve never drank tap water. In my college days I was way too lazy and started just drinking it with a cheap filter. Surprisingly I survived for 5 years despite everyone around me telling me otherwise.

Now in the U.K. I’ve always drank straight from the tap. It’s surprisingly refreshing! And the boiled water taste I can’t really get used to again when I visit home.

The water in Iceland is safe to drink from the tap. Although if I recall correctly it’s pretty sulfuric due to the local hot springs.

I’ve visited a few countries around Europe and have always enjoyed sampling their local tap.

UK, yes - but cold water only and even then the taste of tap water, though not indicative of anything dangerous, is weird enough for me to consider buying a purifier.

It used to be the case that Brits would have a separate hot water tank in which you were told not to drink out of that at all, but modern homes just have the water go through a boiler nowadays. Tom Scott has a good video on that.

In many countries water comes filter (or they say so), but still it does travel through pipes that most likely isn't cleaned for 20-25 yrs or even more if it isn't needed to be repaired...yeah so, I personally would boil my water before drinking (unless I'm really thirsty and there isn't boiled water around)

I can literally taste the chlorine in it after rainfall, so I wouldn't really bother boiling

In Vienna, Austria, tap water isn't just 'run of the mill' water you'd get in other places, it's pristine mountain spring water, transported all the way to the city through old, yet sturdy, aqueducts.

What's amazing about this is that it's not just safe to drink, but often it surpasses the quality of bottled water you'd find in many other countries. So, the next time you're in Vienna, don't hesitate to fill your cup or bottle straight from the tap.

It's not only environmentally friendly, but you'll be enjoying some of the best water around. Truly a testament to how traditional infrastructure can serve modern needs while preserving the environment.

I live in the US, I use a reverse osmosis filter and then boil the water

I'm from Italy, here laws for tap water are very restrictive (more than laws for bottle water). Here in Rome tap water is really good.

I'm in the US. When I was kid playing outside we would drink the water straight out of the garden hose. (Yeah I know that's the same as "the tap"). Now days, we have a filter on the water dispenser built into the refrigerator. So water and ice goes through activated charcoal to remove anything that could be in it.

I had Lake Michigan water in Chicagoland for 30 years and i can only recall once when i was kid having a boil water notice from the town for like less than a week it was a pain to boil water to drink. now im further out west a bit so we dont get Lake Michigan water anymore but it comes from near by fox river. it tastes the same to me out of the tap but its much more expensive.

Here in Estonia tap water is great everywhere. Like my parents have a well at their farm connected to their plumbing and it's the best water I have ever had. The capital has water that tastes kinda like drinking pool water but that is perfectly safe too and only an issue in the capital city.

Here is Jamaica it is safe to drink the tap water without boiling.

Here in Austria(and some other places in Europe), tap water usually is better quality than bottled water. Even where it isnt, its chlorinated enough so there should be nothing in there to cause any sort of health issues. This seems to be the case everywhere in Europe in myexperience.

US, New York, I don't boil my water (I have to specify state as people in flint michigan probably disagree)

Related Billy Conelly joke. May be NSFW, https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSao_EBAR6Y&feature=share9

American from Indiana here. Yep, all the time.