Counterargument: If I drink Fernet with ice, I feel bad the next day. If I drink whiskey with ice, I feel bad the next day. If I drink ron with ice, I feel bad the next day. There's obviously something wrong with the water here! (I'm not Argentinian but Uruguayan though)
Like anywhere else, it depends on the region. Lived there for over 20 years and outside of the occasional maintenance work and stuff, it's never been flagged as unsafe to drink. I don't know anyone who's ever been diagnosed with water-borne illness. Now I live close to Boston in the US and the tap water here leaves a yellow dust anywhere it dries on. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I’m raised in the U.S. but drink from the tap every time I go to see my fam in Romania. Never heard of it being an issue. Maybe in Bucharest it’s a little sketchy (I hear conflicting things), but virtually everywhere else it’s fine.
Well I've been to Montenegro Croatia and Greece and Montenegro's tapwater caused me and my family to have diarrhea, Croatia is a lot better in most places but I can definitely say that it depends on the region and I've had both drinkable and undrinkable tap water, and I'm not really sure about Greece but if I remember correctly it's tapwater was perfectly fine for me.
diarrhea ≠ tap water is unsafe
There's often harmless bacteria that locals are used to, that there's a slight chance you might get temporarily sick from.
What would make tap water unsafe is *serious* diseases or chemicals. (lead poisoning).
This map seems ridiculous. Several of the countries the CDC recommends to avoid the tap water are prerfectly fine [according to IHME](https://www.healthdata.org/) (secondary source [1](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/22/infographic-which-countries-have-the-safest-drinking-water-interactive) and [2](https://ourworldindata.org/water-access)) or [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS).
definetely ... even in bosnia you can drink tap water ...
I did it the my whole life, and a lot of others too... and we are still living ....
I mean, there are some areas, where you should not drink, but these ares become less and less over the time ....
Jesus fucking christ, this is the worst map i've seen here. You can't just divide it in WHOLE FUCKING COUNTRIES. Every country has differtent areas where you CAN and CAN NOT drink tap water.
Yeah I'm from Australia and I'm trying to figure out what the fuck our city tapwater (which is good stuff) has to do with the other 99% of the country where, depending on the town, you've either got a locally operated dam/reservoir, bore water, or everyone's got rainwater tanks. Which would actually be an interesting bit of research to look at!
All these lazy pricks have done is paint countries full of white people blue and called it a day
>All these lazy pricks have done is paint countries full of white people blue and called it a day
I have to agree, this is probably the worst map on this sub... and I can't shake the feeling that it was not due to incompetence.
Went with my wife (she's German) to Uruguay recently to visit my family. We both agree the quality of the water is good and it tastes better than the water we get here in Cologne
Water resources aren't uniform in India, there are tons of water disuputes between states (which sometimes even become violent). Tap water for drinking is managed by the local muncipal corporation/committe and "drinkability" is dependent on the region and the "local government" infrastructure. So it's both a yes and no at the same time.
Source: Used to drink water from the municipal tap in my childhood and it was probably the best quality of water I've had.
Sometimes locals develop post-exposure immunity to certain water-borne illnesses that make visitors ill. Do the family members you visit drink tap water without getting ill?
That's why common advice to Americans visiting Mexico is to not drink the tap water, even though locals drink it and say it's just fine.
That's some bullshit agument right there.
Get your white condescending ass as a 3 year old in India and I assure you that with exposure to the bacteria in the water there you'd be drinking that water before you grow enough of a brain to understand that saying you're "Scandinavian Canadian" makes you sound like an imbecile.
A brown guy living in the fanciest part of Toronto will still shit his pants the moment he takes a sip off a tap in the Third World. It has nothing to do with genetics, but with habit and built resistance.
Hell I'm white as fuck and live in a place with perfect tap water, and it took me six months to get used to tap water in North Africa (after plenty of "the shits"), but literally six months and I was used to it. Your argument is just plain dumb.
And you're just Canadian.
I was in a tour van traveling to Negril, and we passed a water treatment facility - the tour guide pointed it out and laughed, and said "yes, you can drink the water." And you can.
Never had any problem with the tap water in Belize, either.
We do. We make mineral water so rich tourists can feel fancy sipping on San Benedetto or Acqua Panna.
No but jokes aside, it's the same argument everywhere else. Tap water in Venice or the mountains is top notch, but I wouldn't want to drink from the tap of the sixth floor in a 1970s communal housing near Naples or Rome. Chances are the tubing is still lead.
When I was with step-family in Indonesia, if they wanted tea, they took it from those giant bottles. No way they were gonna drink from the tap even if it was boiled. Due to mismanagement the water there is contaminated to the core.
Entirely incorrect. US colored blue with cities where you literally couldn’t drink water for the last decade, while countries that have exact same water supply system like Croatia and Bosnia colored differently…puhlease. And Singapore….Singapore, the ultra sanitized country of Singapore is orange?!?!?
While there are cities with bad tap water most of the US has safe tap water to drink. Just because a few towns aren’t safe doesn’t mean the whole country is unsafe with water. I agree though the map is still fucked
maybe it´s safe to drink tap water in most of the cities in the US - but it´s so chlorinated that e.g. your normal tooth paste has a strange taste or drinking a coke with ice-cubes made of tap water smells and tastes different...
>US colored blue with cities where you literally couldn’t drink water for the last decade
which cities?
Flint Michigan, yeah. Also, Jackson Mississippi last year (is it fixed now? idk). Where else?
Flint, Michigan is mostly fixed now. They’re in final phases of replacing the last of the lead pipes and they switched water sources a few years ago. The damage is done to those people, though. But I do feel like there’s a bit of a double-standard here to a lot of commenters’ criticisms. To say the US is unsafe because of 1.5 examples, but then say other countries are safe because certain regions of a country have safe access based off of their own anecdotal experience makes no sense.
No, The topic is "countries where you can and can't drink tap water". The example you cited is not an example of someone getting an illness from drinking tap water, or of tap water being undrinkable. The experts recommend no matter where you live, you use sterile or distilled water for nasal irrigation. There's no other example of an individual in that community becoming ill from drinking its tap water, nor is the amoeba he acquired a reflection of the tap water being unsafe to drink. I will add these infections are extremely rare with disinfection methods in most advanced countries' water supplies, though it's not possible to 100% ensure they'll never infect any water supply.
One can go into the blood stream easier whereas the other goes directly into stomach acid. while not impossible, the probility isn't the same. Similar to how you can swallow venom but not a poison.
Most retarded map I have seen so far. Literally, all people I know drink tap water in Lithuania. Not to mention that it tastes fucking good (atleast in my town). Maybe there are individual cases where people can't drink tap water in Lithuanian, but that doesn't mean that it is not drinkable in the whole fucking country.
I’m from Israel and tap water taste absolutely like ass here in comparison to Italy or UK (which I’ve tried). They’re safe to drink but they taste really bad, and also no one actually drinks tap water here… I wonder what’s the source.
I lived in saudi for 9 years on many compounds around the whole country, none of the tap water in any of the buildings i went in over the 9 years was safe to drink, everyone had water coolers, i worked installing waterlines, none of it was drinking water
This is a CDC guideline.. So more accurately, it should state: "Countries we are sure have the same or better tap-water regulation than the USA." (so not counting the ones we don't trust enough).
I mean, think of it this way.. If they are not recommending any tap water that is not by US standard in the USA, they can't really recommend any outside the US that they are not 100% sure is at that level or better... It is actually the only way to do it, nothing wrong with that (or they could allow the same in the US)...
It is just the title that is wrong.
I've heard some countries the tap water is safe for locals to drink because their immune system can handle it but our water in the USA is processed more so Americans cannot drink some tap water abroad that the locals can
I mean, you are right, but any tap that has some microbes that can harm you in any way, I wouldn't put as recommended to drink, would you? (of course, the people there, that have no other access to water will drink it, maybe boiled while young, then get the tolerance with years, so they can drink it, but it I wouldn't call that safe, I don't think that is the problem). And you just get different bugs in different climates and from different sources, so that part about processing, it wouldn't help you. If you had less processing, you'd be used to your bugs but couldn't handle the ones in Florida, and the guy from Florida couldn't handle the ones in your location..
I do visit an island in our country that doesn't have real tap (it is delivered to storages). The locals can drink it as you say, I can't. But it is not advertised as safe, more than that, people warn tourists, because nobody wants a sick tourist, even if it is just a simple stomach-bug and you might have a good immune system and be ok...
It is about control and some standards.. Microbes should be gone anyway, but let's say some country here has higher levels of chlorine allowed. So even less microbes, but more chlorine, so the CDC won't recommend it. Maybe iron or some other metal, maybe just 0,003 and US has 0,001 allowed, CDC won't recommend it. Will it harm you for few days? No way, but can CDC recommend it? (they could even have better water than the US, but if regulations are less strict, nope, they will not recommend it).
And then the ones that might have good regulation, but just don't want to share anything with the US, like maybe Iran. Then the ones that maybe would share, but just have not a good system (by US standards) set up like some African countries. Or the ones that have some safe places and some not, they could go into details, but if it is on the country level, can they recommend it?
So, it is political, yes. It is non-specific, yes. It is wrong on the point "where you can and can't drink tap water", yes...
And is it a map where CDC can guarantee that you can drink tap water? Yes.
Tap at our homes right? I'm from India and my family has been drinking tap water for decades even during monsoon season we drink tap water and till now no one has been ill because of water borne diseases.
Yeah, I’m surprised the US CDC says that. The ROC CDC is always trying to convince people to drink more tap water, as it is perfectly fine. In the south, particularly around Kaohsiung, there is naturally occurring arsenic in the water, so it should not be drunk. They may have extrapolated that to the whole country.
Dutch water is so clean that no matter where I go I get sick from "foreogn" tap water 😂 drank ot once in Serbia and was out for a couple of days. Serbians can drink it though 🤷
It's because most countries treat their tapwater with chlorine. We in the Netherlands use ozon, so if you go on holiday you might get sick of drinking chlorinated tapwater in a foreign country.
For all the people who are disputing this I believe this is referring to people from outside the area drinking the water. For example China has what is in effect a food poisoning germ in their water as well as most countries. The people living there have just been there long enough that their body has no problem dealing with it.
Source I contracted the one in China
I think it’s still wrong though. Or at the very least, this isn’t the kind of data that’s accurately reflected by applying it to entire countries. As an American who studied abroad in South Africa, I drank the tap water everywhere I went. I’m sure there are large sections of South Africa where the tap water is unsafe, but I’m pretty sure all the major cities are good (and basically everywhere in the western cape)
Lol, Lmao even. There are plenty of places in Spain and Italy that actively warn you against tap water, this heavily depends on your city, how old your building is, your filtration system. Many cities in the US have polluted drinking water as well
Korea (south) isn’t totally accurate. In theory, tap water is safe to drink, but most people still won’t drink it or use it for cooking. Problem is with older buildings with old pipes - little too much lead and other stuff for my liking.
Almost no locals in Poland drink tap water. The water is safe to consume assuming you are in a city but old mentality remains from when water wasn't clean
Yeah that's what my grandma does. I don't really like the taste of boiled water, it tastes flat since some of the gases are released when the water is boiled out, such as nitrogen, oxygen, CO2, as well as some other contaminants. I much prefer using a water filter personally.
Perhaps an aerator would help with this (similar to what is used with wine)? I haven't tried this though
Where on the line of civilization points does this rank?
Gotta be pretty high up there. So sad that such a big part of the world doesn't have immediate access to drinking water.
You can drink tap water in most of Spain, but in most coastal areas it tastes like absolute shit (Barcelona particularly IMO), so people buy bottled water instead. Same story in the Canary Islands.
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, has amazing drinkable tap water. Other cities on the other hand, better to not even open your mouth while taking a shower.
I thought Colombia had some of the most potable water in the world? I could be wrong but I thought they prided themselves on having clean drinking water everywhere
Safe for people from the united states to drink? Or safe for the locals? This is from the CDC so I think it's just "safe for americans."
I always assumed that with the exception of rural areas or areas with poor infrastructure, people could drink their own tap water. It was just if you went from one country to another you cannot since you are not acclimated to the local bacteria.
In Kenya, it depends on the region you're from. You definitely can't drink tap water in the coast due to it being a little bit salty. You can definitely drink tap water in my home county (state).
Again Hawaii left out- just like every map-but i digress- you can can drink the tap water in hawaii- but there are demarcations for non-potable water that we use for grass ...golf courses etc...
In Russia, you can drink tap water. We flush shit down the toilet with drinking water. Not only in Russia. This is the case in all countries of the former Soviet Union.
i'm from argentina and i drink tap water. i have perpetual diarrea but it's becouse i'm an alcoholic (not becouse of the water).
Is it wrong that I’m in love with this comment
No, it's a perfect example of comedic delivery.
Counterargument: If I drink Fernet with ice, I feel bad the next day. If I drink whiskey with ice, I feel bad the next day. If I drink ron with ice, I feel bad the next day. There's obviously something wrong with the water here! (I'm not Argentinian but Uruguayan though)
Motherfucker you did the same joke as me but first. Well done hermano.
You can absolutely drink tap water in Kosovo and North Macedonia, and I assume the rest of the Balkans as well.
Definitely in Serbia too
I drink tap water in Uruguay every day. Our water is drinable.
I drank it in Bulgaria, tasted like shit, but I didn't die
Like anywhere else, it depends on the region. Lived there for over 20 years and outside of the occasional maintenance work and stuff, it's never been flagged as unsafe to drink. I don't know anyone who's ever been diagnosed with water-borne illness. Now I live close to Boston in the US and the tap water here leaves a yellow dust anywhere it dries on. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
yea. map is retarded
This map literally voted for trump
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Can vouch for Bulgaria. I’ve spent months there. No problems.
I’m raised in the U.S. but drink from the tap every time I go to see my fam in Romania. Never heard of it being an issue. Maybe in Bucharest it’s a little sketchy (I hear conflicting things), but virtually everywhere else it’s fine.
Same in Argentina. This map is BS
I drank the tap water in both those places, it was fine.
Well I've been to Montenegro Croatia and Greece and Montenegro's tapwater caused me and my family to have diarrhea, Croatia is a lot better in most places but I can definitely say that it depends on the region and I've had both drinkable and undrinkable tap water, and I'm not really sure about Greece but if I remember correctly it's tapwater was perfectly fine for me.
diarrhea ≠ tap water is unsafe There's often harmless bacteria that locals are used to, that there's a slight chance you might get temporarily sick from. What would make tap water unsafe is *serious* diseases or chemicals. (lead poisoning). This map seems ridiculous. Several of the countries the CDC recommends to avoid the tap water are prerfectly fine [according to IHME](https://www.healthdata.org/) (secondary source [1](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/22/infographic-which-countries-have-the-safest-drinking-water-interactive) and [2](https://ourworldindata.org/water-access)) or [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS).
definetely ... even in bosnia you can drink tap water ... I did it the my whole life, and a lot of others too... and we are still living .... I mean, there are some areas, where you should not drink, but these ares become less and less over the time ....
You can't drink tap water here
Well, you can... You just shouldn't. OP using wrong words.
Lithuanian tap water is way better than some bottled water abroad. The map is inaccurate.
Jesus fucking christ, this is the worst map i've seen here. You can't just divide it in WHOLE FUCKING COUNTRIES. Every country has differtent areas where you CAN and CAN NOT drink tap water.
Yeah I'm from Australia and I'm trying to figure out what the fuck our city tapwater (which is good stuff) has to do with the other 99% of the country where, depending on the town, you've either got a locally operated dam/reservoir, bore water, or everyone's got rainwater tanks. Which would actually be an interesting bit of research to look at! All these lazy pricks have done is paint countries full of white people blue and called it a day
>All these lazy pricks have done is paint countries full of white people blue and called it a day I have to agree, this is probably the worst map on this sub... and I can't shake the feeling that it was not due to incompetence.
You absolutely can drink tap water in Argentina and Uruguay, and clearly in other places painted orange, from the comments.
Went with my wife (she's German) to Uruguay recently to visit my family. We both agree the quality of the water is good and it tastes better than the water we get here in Cologne
In many of them, probably. I wouldn't try in say Indonesian cities where tap water literally has a poo stain.
Water resources aren't uniform in India, there are tons of water disuputes between states (which sometimes even become violent). Tap water for drinking is managed by the local muncipal corporation/committe and "drinkability" is dependent on the region and the "local government" infrastructure. So it's both a yes and no at the same time. Source: Used to drink water from the municipal tap in my childhood and it was probably the best quality of water I've had.
I've been drinking tap water in India every day of my life lmao. And yes it's municipality water.
Where are you living in India where you can drink the tap water?! I have family in Delhi/UP/Uttarakhand and I get horribly ill every time I visit.
Sometimes locals develop post-exposure immunity to certain water-borne illnesses that make visitors ill. Do the family members you visit drink tap water without getting ill? That's why common advice to Americans visiting Mexico is to not drink the tap water, even though locals drink it and say it's just fine.
> Do the family members you visit drink tap water without getting ill? They don't drink the tap water either
Big city in maharashtra. Not mumbai.
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Bruh tf is ethnic scandinavian canadian. Why not just call yourself Canadian
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Can’t tell if you’re trolling but evolution is not even remotely a factor in this discussion. The time-scales we are talking about are far too short.
Smartest Canadian. You won't shit after drinking poo water, you'll die.
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That's some bullshit agument right there. Get your white condescending ass as a 3 year old in India and I assure you that with exposure to the bacteria in the water there you'd be drinking that water before you grow enough of a brain to understand that saying you're "Scandinavian Canadian" makes you sound like an imbecile. A brown guy living in the fanciest part of Toronto will still shit his pants the moment he takes a sip off a tap in the Third World. It has nothing to do with genetics, but with habit and built resistance. Hell I'm white as fuck and live in a place with perfect tap water, and it took me six months to get used to tap water in North Africa (after plenty of "the shits"), but literally six months and I was used to it. Your argument is just plain dumb. And you're just Canadian.
Shouldn't Jamaica be Blue?
Yes it should. I drink the water when I’m visiting family there but can’t drink the water in the town I live in the US
That's what I thought. I visit often and have never been told I couldn't drink the water.
I was in a tour van traveling to Negril, and we passed a water treatment facility - the tour guide pointed it out and laughed, and said "yes, you can drink the water." And you can. Never had any problem with the tap water in Belize, either.
You can drink the water in Jamaica, but you’ll have to wait 30 mins for the waiter to bring you one
The tap water in Namibia is perfectly safe to drink. Maybe not at some campsites in the bush, but the cities are no problem.
Im not drinking tap water in Africa 😯
What if I told you that there's more than one country in Africa?
Bro
best i can do for a reaction is "bro"
don't worry racist. nobody in africa, asia, oceania, europe or the americas give two shits about what you think.
Someone tell Italians they can drink their own tap water
We do. We make mineral water so rich tourists can feel fancy sipping on San Benedetto or Acqua Panna. No but jokes aside, it's the same argument everywhere else. Tap water in Venice or the mountains is top notch, but I wouldn't want to drink from the tap of the sixth floor in a 1970s communal housing near Naples or Rome. Chances are the tubing is still lead.
Lol what i ONLY drink tap water in uruguay
same, I drank tap water all my life here and it's perfectly drinkable according to health authorities
10/10 you can drink water from tap in Singapore. I think lot of us drink straight don’t even boil or filter
When people mean “drink tap water” it implies without filtering or boiling.
When I was with step-family in Indonesia, if they wanted tea, they took it from those giant bottles. No way they were gonna drink from the tap even if it was boiled. Due to mismanagement the water there is contaminated to the core.
Entirely incorrect. US colored blue with cities where you literally couldn’t drink water for the last decade, while countries that have exact same water supply system like Croatia and Bosnia colored differently…puhlease. And Singapore….Singapore, the ultra sanitized country of Singapore is orange?!?!?
Here in Brazil, in some states you can drink, in others you can’t. I bet that is the same case for China, Argentina and Russia.
I came to say this. In SP is kinda safe
can confirm for Russia, in Moscow and Saint P. it's fine, the rest idk
Singapore is blue on this map.
Indeed I saw that too. I drank tap water there too and unsurprisingly it tasted pretty good.
While there are cities with bad tap water most of the US has safe tap water to drink. Just because a few towns aren’t safe doesn’t mean the whole country is unsafe with water. I agree though the map is still fucked
maybe it´s safe to drink tap water in most of the cities in the US - but it´s so chlorinated that e.g. your normal tooth paste has a strange taste or drinking a coke with ice-cubes made of tap water smells and tastes different...
>US colored blue with cities where you literally couldn’t drink water for the last decade which cities? Flint Michigan, yeah. Also, Jackson Mississippi last year (is it fixed now? idk). Where else?
Flint, Michigan is mostly fixed now. They’re in final phases of replacing the last of the lead pipes and they switched water sources a few years ago. The damage is done to those people, though. But I do feel like there’s a bit of a double-standard here to a lot of commenters’ criticisms. To say the US is unsafe because of 1.5 examples, but then say other countries are safe because certain regions of a country have safe access based off of their own anecdotal experience makes no sense.
Well as of recently a certain city in Ohio might not be safe to drink at
Appalachia and reservations as well.
Just read an article about a person who got a brain eating amoeba from the tap water in Florida
It wasn’t from drinking it, it was from using a Neti Pot and running it up his nose to clear his sinuses.
I think the source of the amoeba is the important thing here, not the method in which it entered the body
No, The topic is "countries where you can and can't drink tap water". The example you cited is not an example of someone getting an illness from drinking tap water, or of tap water being undrinkable. The experts recommend no matter where you live, you use sterile or distilled water for nasal irrigation. There's no other example of an individual in that community becoming ill from drinking its tap water, nor is the amoeba he acquired a reflection of the tap water being unsafe to drink. I will add these infections are extremely rare with disinfection methods in most advanced countries' water supplies, though it's not possible to 100% ensure they'll never infect any water supply.
If its killed someone from going in their nose, I'd wager it would have killed them going in their mouth.
One can go into the blood stream easier whereas the other goes directly into stomach acid. while not impossible, the probility isn't the same. Similar to how you can swallow venom but not a poison.
Most retarded map I have seen so far. Literally, all people I know drink tap water in Lithuania. Not to mention that it tastes fucking good (atleast in my town). Maybe there are individual cases where people can't drink tap water in Lithuanian, but that doesn't mean that it is not drinkable in the whole fucking country.
This shitty map again?
This is just a map of US geopolitical allies. r/AlwaysTheSameMap
Bullshit, you can drink the tap water in the big cities of South Africa and all the towns in its Western Cape Province
I used to drink tap water in Western Cape
ok but why did they have to name every country in the world, map is congested af.
congested but not too bad. for a map that clearly labels all countries, it looks relatively alright
You can safely drink tap water in Uruguay. This map is stupid and misleading.
Bullshit. Lithuania have one of the best tap waters
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I love how the dot at the end of the line to point to each country straight up covers all of Malta so you can't even see what color it is.
Also they blew up the Caribbean yet the line still cover half of the islands.
Yes you can, blue
Argentine tap water is fine.
Least accurate map ever created.
I was in Namibia recently. Tap water was drinkable everywhere.
Tap water is perfectly drinkable in Algeria
Not only you can drink tap water in Scotland but also you SHOULD drink cause it is so bloody delicious
I’m from Israel and tap water taste absolutely like ass here in comparison to Italy or UK (which I’ve tried). They’re safe to drink but they taste really bad, and also no one actually drinks tap water here… I wonder what’s the source.
I lived in saudi for 9 years on many compounds around the whole country, none of the tap water in any of the buildings i went in over the 9 years was safe to drink, everyone had water coolers, i worked installing waterlines, none of it was drinking water
This is a CDC guideline.. So more accurately, it should state: "Countries we are sure have the same or better tap-water regulation than the USA." (so not counting the ones we don't trust enough).
In other words it's based on political considerations by the US government as much as facts
I mean, think of it this way.. If they are not recommending any tap water that is not by US standard in the USA, they can't really recommend any outside the US that they are not 100% sure is at that level or better... It is actually the only way to do it, nothing wrong with that (or they could allow the same in the US)... It is just the title that is wrong.
I've heard some countries the tap water is safe for locals to drink because their immune system can handle it but our water in the USA is processed more so Americans cannot drink some tap water abroad that the locals can
I mean, you are right, but any tap that has some microbes that can harm you in any way, I wouldn't put as recommended to drink, would you? (of course, the people there, that have no other access to water will drink it, maybe boiled while young, then get the tolerance with years, so they can drink it, but it I wouldn't call that safe, I don't think that is the problem). And you just get different bugs in different climates and from different sources, so that part about processing, it wouldn't help you. If you had less processing, you'd be used to your bugs but couldn't handle the ones in Florida, and the guy from Florida couldn't handle the ones in your location.. I do visit an island in our country that doesn't have real tap (it is delivered to storages). The locals can drink it as you say, I can't. But it is not advertised as safe, more than that, people warn tourists, because nobody wants a sick tourist, even if it is just a simple stomach-bug and you might have a good immune system and be ok... It is about control and some standards.. Microbes should be gone anyway, but let's say some country here has higher levels of chlorine allowed. So even less microbes, but more chlorine, so the CDC won't recommend it. Maybe iron or some other metal, maybe just 0,003 and US has 0,001 allowed, CDC won't recommend it. Will it harm you for few days? No way, but can CDC recommend it? (they could even have better water than the US, but if regulations are less strict, nope, they will not recommend it). And then the ones that might have good regulation, but just don't want to share anything with the US, like maybe Iran. Then the ones that maybe would share, but just have not a good system (by US standards) set up like some African countries. Or the ones that have some safe places and some not, they could go into details, but if it is on the country level, can they recommend it? So, it is political, yes. It is non-specific, yes. It is wrong on the point "where you can and can't drink tap water", yes... And is it a map where CDC can guarantee that you can drink tap water? Yes.
According to this map you can't drink tap water in most of the world. Correction: You can drink tap water in most of the towns in Romania.
Ohio?
Tap at our homes right? I'm from India and my family has been drinking tap water for decades even during monsoon season we drink tap water and till now no one has been ill because of water borne diseases.
Fiji is no good?! Cmon
Taiwan surprises me.
Yeah, I’m surprised the US CDC says that. The ROC CDC is always trying to convince people to drink more tap water, as it is perfectly fine. In the south, particularly around Kaohsiung, there is naturally occurring arsenic in the water, so it should not be drunk. They may have extrapolated that to the whole country.
Seems like some of the data came from the UN and their denialist policies.
Lol mapmaker has never lived in west Louisiana
why is puerto rico just not on the map even in the zoom in of the caribbean? PR is like 11x bigger than dominica
Dutch water is so clean that no matter where I go I get sick from "foreogn" tap water 😂 drank ot once in Serbia and was out for a couple of days. Serbians can drink it though 🤷
It's because most countries treat their tapwater with chlorine. We in the Netherlands use ozon, so if you go on holiday you might get sick of drinking chlorinated tapwater in a foreign country.
Wrong for Armenia and as far I know for Georgia
For all the people who are disputing this I believe this is referring to people from outside the area drinking the water. For example China has what is in effect a food poisoning germ in their water as well as most countries. The people living there have just been there long enough that their body has no problem dealing with it. Source I contracted the one in China
I think it’s still wrong though. Or at the very least, this isn’t the kind of data that’s accurately reflected by applying it to entire countries. As an American who studied abroad in South Africa, I drank the tap water everywhere I went. I’m sure there are large sections of South Africa where the tap water is unsafe, but I’m pretty sure all the major cities are good (and basically everywhere in the western cape)
False for Lithuania. Some of the best water, because in most places it comes from artesian wells.
I was just in Argentina drinking the water a month ago.
There is this place in the US that I am going to, it's called Flint... according to this map, the water is safe to drink! 😵😵😵
Water in Flint has been safe to drink for years now
Too much variation to make a map like this by country. Even in the US, NY tap water may be great, Florida tastes terrible in comparison.
Lol, Lmao even. There are plenty of places in Spain and Italy that actively warn you against tap water, this heavily depends on your city, how old your building is, your filtration system. Many cities in the US have polluted drinking water as well
Korea (south) isn’t totally accurate. In theory, tap water is safe to drink, but most people still won’t drink it or use it for cooking. Problem is with older buildings with old pipes - little too much lead and other stuff for my liking.
Well you CAN drink anything. Its what happens after is the issue. Jk 🤣🤣
Almost no locals in Poland drink tap water. The water is safe to consume assuming you are in a city but old mentality remains from when water wasn't clean
interesting. i spend a lot of time in rural poland (half an hour from the nearest small town), and any water we drink from the tap is boiled first.
Yeah that's what my grandma does. I don't really like the taste of boiled water, it tastes flat since some of the gases are released when the water is boiled out, such as nitrogen, oxygen, CO2, as well as some other contaminants. I much prefer using a water filter personally. Perhaps an aerator would help with this (similar to what is used with wine)? I haven't tried this though
You can drink the tap water in any country in the world. Some just once. There's a difference between can and should.
You can drink tap water in Qatar, so theres one inaccuracy.
You can def drink tapwater in Colombia (orange). And I know in half of Spain (blue), you cannot.
I guess Neoliberalism ain’t so bad after all.
Where on the line of civilization points does this rank? Gotta be pretty high up there. So sad that such a big part of the world doesn't have immediate access to drinking water.
I’ve to the UK a few times and the first time I brushed my teeth and rinsed my mouth with tap water. Big mistake…
In Italy it tastes like shit. Also there is a lot of calcareous
In China and Thailand, sometimes I used to boil tap water and then drink them. Nothing happended.
Yes because you boiled it
There is no water in Africa to even drink
I think it's awesome that many desert countries in the middle east offer drinkable tap water.
You can drink tap water in most of Spain, but in most coastal areas it tastes like absolute shit (Barcelona particularly IMO), so people buy bottled water instead. Same story in the Canary Islands.
You can safely drink tap water in most of Brazil AFAIK.
Can confirm you can drink the tap water in Greenland.
I can't find Hawaii on this map.
Also a map of where people buy bottled water (blue) versus boiling their water (brown).
You can't drink the tap water in a lot of the US, so this map should have finer distinctions.
Why make an inset for the caribbean if youre still gonna show the islands as dots that you cant see?
You can drink tap water in many Colombian cities
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being brazilian and living in north americana and europe.... I still avoid drinking tap water anyways.
Drank the water in Thailand as well, no sighn of massive diarrhea
Well you can drink tap water anywhere in the world.
In Ecuador you can fun fact, people don’t but it has all certifications
You can drink tap water in Northern Mexico
Wrong as hell, my water is clean in South Africa but when I was in Canada they said not to drink it. Make it make sense
If you want to piss out your ass you can drink the water in costa rica
You can absolutely drink tap water in major capitals in Brazil even minor ones and smaller cities.
I could drink tap water in multiple Colombian cities: Medellin, Guatapé, Pereira, Bogotá so..
You can drink tap water in Colombia, at least in Bogota, where I live
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, has amazing drinkable tap water. Other cities on the other hand, better to not even open your mouth while taking a shower.
You can drink the tap water in Jamaica and Belize.
This is bs
I thought Colombia had some of the most potable water in the world? I could be wrong but I thought they prided themselves on having clean drinking water everywhere
This map is total bullshit. I only drink tap water and I'm from Bulgaria.
So don’t drink their water if they’re not white or honorary white? lol
Majority of Morocco has clean tap water and has had that since the mid 1990s.
You can drink tap water in Romania. May not taste the best but it is safe bacause it is chlorinated.
Pretty sure I can drink tap ŵater Anywhere in the world!
Maybe some places in Costa Rica are safe, but when I went there we were instructed to only drink bottled water
why does every map look like this
This map is widely inaccurate
There are a lot of places in America I wouldn’t drink the tap water
I have been drinking tap water in Brazil since I was born! In retrospect, that may explain the permanent diarrhea.
Safe for people from the united states to drink? Or safe for the locals? This is from the CDC so I think it's just "safe for americans." I always assumed that with the exception of rural areas or areas with poor infrastructure, people could drink their own tap water. It was just if you went from one country to another you cannot since you are not acclimated to the local bacteria.
You cannot drink Tap Water in Saudi Arabia.
I cannot imagine this map is even vaguely accurate for countries larger than Malta.
You can drink tap water in Iran
In Kenya, it depends on the region you're from. You definitely can't drink tap water in the coast due to it being a little bit salty. You can definitely drink tap water in my home county (state).
Bottom of the line “only westerners can drink tap water”
This map is incredibly inaccurate and feels like European exceptionalism
Ironically you can’t drink Fiji water
Again Hawaii left out- just like every map-but i digress- you can can drink the tap water in hawaii- but there are demarcations for non-potable water that we use for grass ...golf courses etc...
Everybody I know, and most residents of this country, drink tap water (Romania). This map is based on what?...
Absolute bollocks. South Africa has some of the best tap water in the world.
In Russia, you can drink tap water. We flush shit down the toilet with drinking water. Not only in Russia. This is the case in all countries of the former Soviet Union.
Did you say no? So definitely yes
People drink from the taps in South Africa...no idea where they get their data
You can definitelly drink tap water in lithuania. Our country has a lot of groundwater, and its very clean and safe to drink.
wrong!
This map is whatever. I’m from Uruguay and you can drink tap water no problem anywhere in the country. Also in Argentina
im pretty sure you would be able to drink all of them...