Second map is wrong. You can drink the tap water in any country at least once
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Well, any country that has tap water.
Ah yes America. The land with safe leaded tap water.
It's more fuel efficient 😤
Why is America highlighted?
Good question for both maps
Yet another instance of "America is actually 50 countries in a trench coat". Some places here have really, really good quality tap water that tastes ok even without a drinking water filter on the faucet, and other places... well, everyone knows Flint, MI...
As opposed to other countries, where it's the same through the whole country
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South Africa has some really good tap water, can confirm I am drinking it.
We should enjoy it while we can, it seems that even that is coming to an end.
All of South Africas tap water is safe to drink. And Russia considers the SA government their ally.
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I just want to say a a resident of the US Midwest, don't drink the tap water here - it won't actually kill you but you'll wish you were dead 😝
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Looks like Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia and get a pass on being unfriendly countries, presumably because they aren't in NATO (despite B&H being an aspiring member).
However Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria, also not in NATO, are still unfriendlies.
Poor Hungary is still counted as unfriendly as they actively run interference on Moscow's behalf.
The map of the US should be a bit more finely-grained to show the MAGA states as Russophiles.
Yeah, like all the Russophiles in Flint, Michigan.
Keep in mind that while they may consider Russia friendly, Russia still considers them unfriendly.
You misspelled ‘useful idiots’.
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I live in America and I wouldn't drink the tap water
You're part of the minority then. 12% in the USA never drinks tap water. 71% of us drink it at least sometimes. source
The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I'm sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.
The places with forever chemical contamination are also growing.
The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I’m sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.
Sure, but a town with a population of 80k people doesn't define a nation. The vast majority of Americans have safe tap water available to drink.
Aren't "never drinking" and "drinking at least sometimes" collectively exhaustive? So what do the remaining 17% do with their tap water?
Edit: I can't count this late
Presumably answered other questions on the survey but didn't say how often they drank tap water.
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I don't think we're un-friendly, I think Russia's just in a bad place right now and need to take a hard look at themselves and maybe consider whether their recent behaviour matches their values.
And no, they can't crash on our sofa.
Is the tap water in Spain alright? When I was in Tenerife recently, I bought bottled water even though I never ever buy it at home. They also had quite a lot of (non carbonated, non flavored) bottled water in the stores compared to my country.
I come from a country with very good tap water so is it possible that the water is technically fine but not great or something you would like to drink?
Why do you assume mainland tap water and tap water on a tiny island far out in the ocean have the same quality? In spain mainland tap water is generally considered drinkable.
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Well, Tenerife is Spain, but it's 1700km away, so it's not the best example.
Still, it depends on where in Spain we talk about, you can see in This map . It's not that the water is bad, it's that in many places it has minerals like calcium that gives them undesired taste, but its perfectly safe. I live in one of those black places and most people buy bottled water. I use a Britta.
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I thought Chile had drinkable table water. Last time someone posted a UN map, iirc Chile was the sole county in South America highlighted.
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What's the idea behind this meme? That Russia is against tap-water or that Russia is a third-world shithole?
Because if the later, it reeks of western-white-colonialist supremacy. Blue countries have better infrastructure because they are colonial powers.
Oh and I absolutely drank water in Bulgaria. This is factually false.
Meanwhile, placing the US in the "drinkable country" where this happens is laughable:
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You better wipe America off that list lol. Flint Michigan have water yet?
!alwaysthesamemap@lemmygrad.ml
To be fair, I get the sense that in some cases, the west (and our outsourcing of pollution and trash) might contribute to the inability to drink tap water. Not that it makes it right to hate in the West, but I'm not about to blame ALL those countries for crappy tap water.
I always drank tap water during my stay in Medellín, Colombia and was perfectly fine.
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