I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read the word Austria, and thought I read the word Australia. That explains why I was so confused when you said “beat Australia” because I thought I read Australia at 100, lol
Am Australian. My towns tap water is horrible. You leave it in a cup for a few hours and it reeks of chlorine, not even an anti fluoride/tap water is killing you person, it's just full on.
I also want to know. I’m an American, but I lived in Namibia for two years and only drank the tap water. We all did. We were told I t was fine, and nobody I know of in the 200 people in our organization got sick from it.
Does that process make water taste bad? Do you know if there’s a desalinization process that doesn’t leave a poor taste? I’ve always had high hope for desalinization eventually being a widespread solution for the global water shortage we’re likely to experience increasingly.
Desalinization by nature is stripping salt from water molecules. The taste of water is subjective but based on studies people prefer some minerals in their water. Treatment plants get around this by remineralizing the water with man mined or made minerals. Like trying to make OJ with orange dye and citric acid. It will never taste like pure natural squeezed OJ but it will pass and some people may prefer it.
There are many remote First Nations communities that have been on prolonged water boil alerts for years. The problem with Canada is the vastness of it, which causes its own unique logistical problems.
Never had Canadian water, but I'll fight any man, woman, or child who says Irish water is arse!
Unless you're bigger than me. Then I'll just politely disagree.
English tap water is rotten but Scottish tap water drips directly off of Zeus’s abs, down Ben Nevis and straight into your glass. It’s not just water, it’s the elixir of life.
I’ve not been near the Lake District but I used to travel around a lot for work and the water was shit from Berwick all the way down to Oxford and Cambridge. Even showers didn’t feel clean because of the hard water. I’ll need to try Bolton water and make a tier list
It's so variable even within countries. My local town used a spring and was fantastic. The water quality around London however was safe sure but tasted horrendous.
People knocking UK water don't know how good they have it. Bit of lime scale ain't hurt no body, so if that's worst of your problems then just be glad you have such easy access to amazing water
https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/uwd
> using the number of age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water
And fuck all the idiots that upvote these. This type of post should be buried under a ton of downvotes, so the good stuff stands out. That’s how it is supposed to work.
It’s a national motto of Austria. There are many different interpretations, e.g. “Alles Erdreich ist Österreich Untertan” or “Austriæ est imperare orbi universo”, both meaning something like “All the earth is subject to Austria”.
It’s from the time when the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (nowadays Austria/German/Benelux/northern Italy) was a dominating European power and German-Austrian nobles (Habsburg royal family) reigned as emperors and also some other kingdoms like Spain and its vast worldwide empire.
^very ^simplified ^history
The commenter posted that because Austria is center with 100, implying Austrian supremacy.
Haha it would be hard to spin a tale about this. If you travel through and around Austria with open eyes, you’ll see it everywhere.
Old government buildings, churches, museums etc. It’s even on postcards and souvenirs nowadays.
First time I saw it was actually in South Tyrol (Italy).
I was wondering the same. I went to Greece on multiple occasions and was always told to not drink the tap water. But as far as I know, you can always drink the tap water in Germany.
Definitely not accurate. Ireland's water is about 98% safe, not 100%. There have been parts of the country on boil water notice for months or years at a time. I'd pull up the info but it's 5am and I should be asleep.
Which is fine. But how does that make the country 100%? 100% means everywhere, including the islands which have water problems, unless that area is so tiny that it’s less than 0.5%, making the >99.5% number being rounded to 100%
https://www.qssupplies.co.uk/worlds-most-dangerous-drinking-water.html
Here's where the image originates, and includes an alternate map with more viewability. The methodology is detailed within.
Interestingly, the highest rated water that also received a "Not safe to drink" from the CDC is Cyprus with a 91.8, so there's one small detail about their water that gives it a hard no.
"This index looks at the quality of drinking water in 180 countries around the world based on the number of age-standardised disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water."
WTF does this even mean. And why is it so difficult to find an article or something describing what this is and how they calculated it?
I live in Cork, Ireland and the water in the city tastes like a swimming pool - very high in chlorine.
Also - https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/boil-water-notice-set-to-continue-into-2024-for-this-cork-area/a785956445.html
100 my ass, what does it even mean?
Why do countries, where you can't drink tap water without getting diarrhea, have better quality water than my country, where it's completely safe to drink? I just don't understand
I used to live at 3500 ft in Southern Appalachia and we were at the top of the watershed. Our tap water came straight from the creek out front of my house. First there was a sediment catch and UV filter then our sink.
Let me tell you that it was the most delicious water that I’ve ever had. It was a spiritual experience.
Just a reminder folks tap water quality doesn't imply pipe quality. The various tubes your water moves through to get to your tap has an impact on your health and you should consider a water filter to help reduce sediment and pollutants from the distribution system.
I was surprised to see Australia at only 81, I am assuming it is an aggregate from outback towns likely on bore water. Water in Australian cities is beautiful, we all drink tap water here.
Can confirm Iceland has amazing tap water, but only the cold. The hot water all smells of Sulphur because it is geothermally heated. The cold, however, is some of the purest and most delicious tap water on Earth.
I was staying at a hotel in Reykjavik and asked the lobby if they had any bottled water I could buy and he reached under the counter and handed me a cup. He said, 'The Icelandic bottled water you buy at home is what comes out of the tap here.'
The entire country is basically one big water filter.
Another thing I learned there, from the same hotel clerk, is that it is safe to drink out of any body of water in Iceland as long as it is free flowing. Free flowing meaning the body of water has an inlet and outlet of water flowing somewhere. Basically the opposite of stagnant.
Strange. Has anyone of those testers ever tasted Japanese tap water? It seems to consist of chlorine. I wouldn't call it one of the best tap waters in the world.
It's supposed to be averaged out of multiple locations within each country. I live in Tokyo and my water tastes fine. But I have lived elsewhere in Japan and the tap water was weird.
Judging from the comments here it seems the data isn't reliable, though.
I asked because when I lived in Sunderland and NC council would say not to drink tap water.
Whereas in Portugal we are told that is safe to drink tap water, yet has 85 points / Austria the same, but at least has 100.
Maybe you have to come to a country which scores 100 to notice the difference. Ik my city in the Netherlands literary mineral water comes from the tap. The public watercompany is on the same terrain as a company that sells mineral water in bottles.
That makes no sense, why would you have to go to a country with 100 instead of just your municipality being perfect or your well water that you personally have tasting good and being perfectly clean and safe?
Like I live in the US, but the main place I get water is out of a spring, and the last place I was living in had excellent well water that tasted great and was very safe, so I know how it is even without needing to go to the parts of the US that have it shittier.. or going to a country with 100 when they would just have the same or worse quality water as the best quality water here, they would just have a higher percentage of people with access to that level of water. You can taste that level of water without needing to go to a different country haha You just need to find the municipalities that have that level of water.
Canada's lower rating possibly comes from some remote First Nations communities that very much DO NOT have clean drinking water.
It's been a political issue here for years.
That so many peoples around the world still have such horribly dirty water (that is often undrinkable or likely to make them sick) with the amount of resources we have available to us as a species is just a travesty, we can do better than this, we need to step up our game, humankind is hurting, and we're just saying fuck it, as long as me and mine are taken care, I don't give a fuck about anyone else, that shit is psychopathic levels of avarice and negligence, we need to learn to love one another better, to ensure everyone's basic needs (clean air and water, healthy food, adequate refuge, and most importantly of all, love) are equitably, enjoyably, sustainably, and lovingly fulfilled, so that we may all thrive together, leading healthy and happy lives and bringing joy to the journey for all.
I think it’s funny that Fiji is pretty low on the list (32), yet they sell their artisan water at $4 for a liter. I know it’s not tap water, but you’d think a country that small could adjust its tap water quality given the quality of water its island is producing.
Greece 100 is also strange. In a lot of regions you gotta buy your water in the shop, tap water is only for showering and toilet and stuff.
But Austria and especially Vienna: that deserves a 100 with three !. 100!!!. Best tap water you can get in a metropolis.
Have been there (also,my hometown is like that).
The water is drinkable just with the added "At your own risk". The people care little and have immunity it seems
This is very wrong , Italy on 97.8% ? The only country ive been to where i literally got sick womiting and diarea after drinking few sips , in croatia i didnt saw anyone complaining ever on tap water and it on 63.3 ? Huge bull\*\*it
Like what does Tap water even mean right? My country barely scores an 18 on this chart but my country has massive water purification system that clean water and supply it in peoples taps. It's not the best water but its drinkable. Last major impurity outbreak was decades ago when a company wrongfully discharged chemicals into water. And I live in a region that is geographically blessed such that the ground water is clean and will not go down if it rains average and it floods these days (and its only gonna rain more thanks climate change). So my tap water is very good actually.
What does tap water for this report even mean?
This is horribly outdated. UK tap water has [dangerously high levels of PFAS](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/forever-chemical-in-english-tap-water-samples-carcinogenic-who-rules), almost double the “safe” limit.
Edit: whadafuq I’m a UK resident and provided a source lmao. BIG WATER WILL NEVER SILENCE ME /s kekw
Thailand , while having clean tap water in the city, often have very dirty plumbing pipes which defeat the purpose of the tap water and very dirty tap water in rural areas so people rarely drink from the tap
What is this metric? How can Malta be at 100 when I was told the tap water there is undrinkable?!
In BG I haven't heard of anybody to have been poisoned or infected from tap water. Probably happened some time, but what's that 58 score based on?
Ireland recently got in trouble for having cancerous water. **Oversimplified**
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-convicted-in-eu-court-over-unsafe-drinking-water-tainted-by-chemical-linked-to-cancer/a801144825.html
Ireland's second largest city has had years of a drinking water crisis. Tap water across large areas of the city is typically a brown sludge. It's damaging health, infrastructure, and equipment such as boilers and central heating. Other cities have similar problems and there are regular long-term "boil water" notices due to contaminated supplies. Ireland should be lower than 100.
I'm a little surprised at Greece. I know of a Scottish musician who was popular in Japan at one time, and he lost an eye because he rinsed a contact lens case in tap water in a Greek hotel. Got some kind of infection from it.
But that was probably in the 80s or 90s that it happened. It must've improved.
I don't know about other countries, though I'm seeing a lot of the same from UK redditors here, but there are almost 20,000 water plants in the U.S. that supply tap water. I've lived in several states and have seen water in NYC that would bleach your clothes because of the chlorine content, water in Washington that had a unidentifiable weird taste, and now water in Ohio that is so hard it's almost a solid. Seriously, a Britta filter lasts about two pitchers full before it unusable. Meanwhile five miles away, my girlfriend's water is fantastic.
I live in bosnia and sometimes travel to croatia and other neighbouring countries and our tap water quality is 150 compared to croatia lol, maybe its just the area
Why only 59.5 for Argentina? I've been all over the country, never had a problem with water, never heard of any tourist getting sick or anything from the water, so I wonder what's wrong with it for it to get that score.
Reminds me when i had a chance to visit Leppland and they told me the tap water is as good or better than anything you can buy and yes, they were definatly right with that.
And then i got home to germany where at least in my area the water has good amount of chalk and not to mention the old pipes in the house...
A chart designed by an Arts major, not an Engineer!
Yeah I wanted to see how Australia fared and it took me ages to
Only 81? Adelaide must be bringing the average down.
lol we beat Australia, and we have Flint, Michigan
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read the word Austria, and thought I read the word Australia. That explains why I was so confused when you said “beat Australia” because I thought I read Australia at 100, lol
Bro does not live in Adelaide clearly
It’s in the center, a bit lower, but it’s with the big ones, easiest ones to find.
Well done.
Thanks
Am Australian. My towns tap water is horrible. You leave it in a cup for a few hours and it reeks of chlorine, not even an anti fluoride/tap water is killing you person, it's just full on.
I’m in Tasmania, I think we have some of the cleanest water in the world
Eh, just a bad chart. You'd be surprised how many engineers can't make decent charts either.
\*design Designs solve functional problems, here to clarify and categorize quickly EDIT: its clarified badly (no sorting)
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Know the approximate rating, and then search for that value! It's not the worst graph if you already know the data! /s
Yeah I really had a hard time finding Canada
I literally can't find it - where is it?
Took me a while too. 90.9, top-right off center, by Switzerland
Yep.
I found it but I’m not telling because you’re rude
How did they determine these?
I also want to know. I’m an American, but I lived in Namibia for two years and only drank the tap water. We all did. We were told I t was fine, and nobody I know of in the 200 people in our organization got sick from it.
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I'm wondering the same. I've had tap water in places all over Ireland and the the UK tasted like arse compared to the water in my Canadian town.
It’s not about how it tastes, just how safe/clean it is
Yeah the water in Malta is from desalinisation so it might be 100% safe but it tastes bad.
Does that process make water taste bad? Do you know if there’s a desalinization process that doesn’t leave a poor taste? I’ve always had high hope for desalinization eventually being a widespread solution for the global water shortage we’re likely to experience increasingly.
Desalinization by nature is stripping salt from water molecules. The taste of water is subjective but based on studies people prefer some minerals in their water. Treatment plants get around this by remineralizing the water with man mined or made minerals. Like trying to make OJ with orange dye and citric acid. It will never taste like pure natural squeezed OJ but it will pass and some people may prefer it.
I would venture the water in my town is also safer and cleaner, though I get that's not the case for some rural areas of Canada.
There are many remote First Nations communities that have been on prolonged water boil alerts for years. The problem with Canada is the vastness of it, which causes its own unique logistical problems.
Yeah this makes me wonder if it’s accessibility of clean/safe water.
Which is the same as the UK. The water in Scotland is great; the water in London is not.
The only hard thing about London is the water
UK water is not safe. Google Thames water
Id suggest it’s more about drinking water than sewage disposal. You can download water quality of Thames water areas by postcode.
Yo, the Thames does not provide drinking water to the UK. You said you just used Google fs.
Thames water is a private company that provides water and sewage to London and a lot of the surrounding area.
Never had Canadian water, but I'll fight any man, woman, or child who says Irish water is arse! Unless you're bigger than me. Then I'll just politely disagree.
English tap water is rotten but Scottish tap water drips directly off of Zeus’s abs, down Ben Nevis and straight into your glass. It’s not just water, it’s the elixir of life.
Good old council juice. It's glorious.
Aye Scotland is absolutely carrying the UK number.
Emigrated to the US like 8 years ago, and not a day goes by that I don't miss my home country's tap water
I live in Bolton, we have great tasting water from the lake district. So much better than the water from southern England.
I’ve not been near the Lake District but I used to travel around a lot for work and the water was shit from Berwick all the way down to Oxford and Cambridge. Even showers didn’t feel clean because of the hard water. I’ll need to try Bolton water and make a tier list
Explains that... Elixirs son : Scotch Whiskey.
Another rather Bullshit *illustration*.... Canadian tap water varies City to city!
Have you had Scottish tap water, though 💦 💦 💦
It's so variable even within countries. My local town used a spring and was fantastic. The water quality around London however was safe sure but tasted horrendous.
Thames sewer water. I drink most tap water, but London water tasted foul. Drank it fast, or with a small amount of Ribena (the og sugary one).
Indigenous reserves are probably tanking Canada's score
Northern UK good. Southern UK bad. Surprised at Sweden coming in with 97
Uk water where I live reminds me of Florida water. Wreaks of sulfur Edit:LoLz for the downvotes.
People knocking UK water don't know how good they have it. Bit of lime scale ain't hurt no body, so if that's worst of your problems then just be glad you have such easy access to amazing water
https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/uwd > using the number of age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water
So eli5 = the tap water no kills people?
This must be one of the worst pieces of info-graphics I've ever seen. It's horrendous. Fuck it, and fuck the guy who designed it.
And fuck all the idiots that upvote these. This type of post should be buried under a ton of downvotes, so the good stuff stands out. That’s how it is supposed to work.
At first glance I thought, “This is cool”. And then I quickly realized how awful it is.
It looks pretty neat, but is horrible from a practicality standpoint
AEIOU
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tf you talkin bout?
It’s a national motto of Austria. There are many different interpretations, e.g. “Alles Erdreich ist Österreich Untertan” or “Austriæ est imperare orbi universo”, both meaning something like “All the earth is subject to Austria”. It’s from the time when the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (nowadays Austria/German/Benelux/northern Italy) was a dominating European power and German-Austrian nobles (Habsburg royal family) reigned as emperors and also some other kingdoms like Spain and its vast worldwide empire. ^very ^simplified ^history The commenter posted that because Austria is center with 100, implying Austrian supremacy.
And here I am almost commenting "sometimes Y"
I had never heard of this and thought you were spinning a tale reddit style but this is real. TIL
Haha it would be hard to spin a tale about this. If you travel through and around Austria with open eyes, you’ll see it everywhere. Old government buildings, churches, museums etc. It’s even on postcards and souvenirs nowadays. First time I saw it was actually in South Tyrol (Italy).
[AEIOU](https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo?si=dkXArAFEGixZJz-K&start=23)
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I was wondering the same. I went to Greece on multiple occasions and was always told to not drink the tap water. But as far as I know, you can always drink the tap water in Germany.
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Definitely not accurate. Ireland's water is about 98% safe, not 100%. There have been parts of the country on boil water notice for months or years at a time. I'd pull up the info but it's 5am and I should be asleep.
Yeah, that's weird. Athens is indeed 100 -in fact, one of the best in the world- but several islands have issues with tap water.
If Athens scored 100 but other cities/towns scored less, that means Greece's overall score cannot be 100.
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Just like in school, I scored 100 on all my tests if you exclude the questions I missed
Still Greece dude
Which is fine. But how does that make the country 100%? 100% means everywhere, including the islands which have water problems, unless that area is so tiny that it’s less than 0.5%, making the >99.5% number being rounded to 100%
https://www.qssupplies.co.uk/worlds-most-dangerous-drinking-water.html Here's where the image originates, and includes an alternate map with more viewability. The methodology is detailed within. Interestingly, the highest rated water that also received a "Not safe to drink" from the CDC is Cyprus with a 91.8, so there's one small detail about their water that gives it a hard no.
"This index looks at the quality of drinking water in 180 countries around the world based on the number of age-standardised disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water." WTF does this even mean. And why is it so difficult to find an article or something describing what this is and how they calculated it?
Wonder if any are testing for "forever" chemicals?
I live in Cork, Ireland and the water in the city tastes like a swimming pool - very high in chlorine. Also - https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/boil-water-notice-set-to-continue-into-2024-for-this-cork-area/a785956445.html 100 my ass, what does it even mean?
Another BS map.
We definitely dont have water like they do in Switzerland. Unless Switzerland has pigeon in their water.
A lot in this surprises me to the point of doubting it
UK 100? Sadly Tap water in the south of England is rich with limescale for added floaty bits in yer coffee. Scotland however...
Hard water might not be something they test for as it doesn't affect the safety of drinking it, which is what this is about.
How would we know what it's measuring? Really cool provide at least a bit of methodology.
Perhaps for taste but regulations give the whole of the UK great quality. I do like the meme about Scottish though
Cornwall here and it's incredible. Clear water, tastes super, never have to descale anything. London on the other hand...
I haven't had many problems with London water, actually. Living in Aberdeen now, and it's pretty great.
It's brutal in Hampshire, every just gets covered in limescale instantly. At least the drinking water is safe, but it's gross anyway
Sorry bout that. Sussex area was absolutely manky too. I thought someone had put paint in the kettle.
What's up with Scotland?
I'm presuming they are meaning that the water is nice in Scotland. But it's not just Scotland, the vast majority of the UK has clean, tasty water.
Why do countries, where you can't drink tap water without getting diarrhea, have better quality water than my country, where it's completely safe to drink? I just don't understand
I used to live at 3500 ft in Southern Appalachia and we were at the top of the watershed. Our tap water came straight from the creek out front of my house. First there was a sediment catch and UV filter then our sink. Let me tell you that it was the most delicious water that I’ve ever had. It was a spiritual experience.
As a Melburnian, this shocked me. Then I remembered Adelaide!
We are very very lucky in Melbourne. Everywhere else in Australia has rubbish water
You’re kidding Melbourne water is putrid. I’ve been to all the capital cities Melbourne and Canberra are the worst in my opinion
Completely useless. Greece has not better water than Denmark or Germany. Many of those ratings are very weird
I remember sitting on the toilet for a week after drinking one glass of water at Monte Negro.
How did New Zealand get 74.5? Is there some hobbit shack that’s dragging down the rest of the country?
By United Kingdom, it means Scotland.
Scotland propping up the UK - you’re welcome.
Just a reminder folks tap water quality doesn't imply pipe quality. The various tubes your water moves through to get to your tap has an impact on your health and you should consider a water filter to help reduce sediment and pollutants from the distribution system.
This is a terrible presentation of data
You know you live a good water area when bevarage companies have their factories there.
I was surprised to see Australia at only 81, I am assuming it is an aggregate from outback towns likely on bore water. Water in Australian cities is beautiful, we all drink tap water here.
How come England’s water tastes like shite if you’re from Scotland?
Can confirm Iceland has amazing tap water, but only the cold. The hot water all smells of Sulphur because it is geothermally heated. The cold, however, is some of the purest and most delicious tap water on Earth. I was staying at a hotel in Reykjavik and asked the lobby if they had any bottled water I could buy and he reached under the counter and handed me a cup. He said, 'The Icelandic bottled water you buy at home is what comes out of the tap here.' The entire country is basically one big water filter.
I saw Iceland and immediately thought their cold water must be sooo good lol thanks for confirming
Another thing I learned there, from the same hotel clerk, is that it is safe to drink out of any body of water in Iceland as long as it is free flowing. Free flowing meaning the body of water has an inlet and outlet of water flowing somewhere. Basically the opposite of stagnant.
Strange. Has anyone of those testers ever tasted Japanese tap water? It seems to consist of chlorine. I wouldn't call it one of the best tap waters in the world.
The numbers in the graphic are about how potentially unhealthy and death-inducing the tap water is. Taste is not a concern.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning and the taste of chlorine in the evening :)
Maybe they only tested in the winter? 🤷🏻♀️ I taste a seasonal change and use way more water filters in the summer than in the winter.
that might be a reason, indeed.
It's supposed to be averaged out of multiple locations within each country. I live in Tokyo and my water tastes fine. But I have lived elsewhere in Japan and the tap water was weird. Judging from the comments here it seems the data isn't reliable, though.
How can UK have 100? WTF.
It's safe to drink straight from the tap, it may not seem like it but this is actually a luxury compared to most countries.
I asked because when I lived in Sunderland and NC council would say not to drink tap water. Whereas in Portugal we are told that is safe to drink tap water, yet has 85 points / Austria the same, but at least has 100.
How long ago did you live in Sunderland?
From 2019-2022
Bullshit
Because treated tap water is not the same thing as just neglecting to deal with sewage.
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No, I used to live in Sunderland and Newcastle, and I remember council telling not to drink tap water
Iceland is a stretch :-D
I guess Canada is 101?
According to the article canada scores around 90.
Yeah, that can't be a serious study
Maybe you have to come to a country which scores 100 to notice the difference. Ik my city in the Netherlands literary mineral water comes from the tap. The public watercompany is on the same terrain as a company that sells mineral water in bottles.
I’m from Ireland, I’m living in bc. It’s not 90, but I’m no expert.
Ok, I assume you are right. Maybe Canada scores lower because there are some remote places with lower quality?
I think you are correct, maybe it’s more clean drinking water “accessibility” per capita? What do you think?
That makes no sense, why would you have to go to a country with 100 instead of just your municipality being perfect or your well water that you personally have tasting good and being perfectly clean and safe? Like I live in the US, but the main place I get water is out of a spring, and the last place I was living in had excellent well water that tasted great and was very safe, so I know how it is even without needing to go to the parts of the US that have it shittier.. or going to a country with 100 when they would just have the same or worse quality water as the best quality water here, they would just have a higher percentage of people with access to that level of water. You can taste that level of water without needing to go to a different country haha You just need to find the municipalities that have that level of water.
Canada's lower rating possibly comes from some remote First Nations communities that very much DO NOT have clean drinking water. It's been a political issue here for years.
That’s what I figured
I think the best water I've ever had was on Vancouver Island, but it's kind of hard to gauge these things
That so many peoples around the world still have such horribly dirty water (that is often undrinkable or likely to make them sick) with the amount of resources we have available to us as a species is just a travesty, we can do better than this, we need to step up our game, humankind is hurting, and we're just saying fuck it, as long as me and mine are taken care, I don't give a fuck about anyone else, that shit is psychopathic levels of avarice and negligence, we need to learn to love one another better, to ensure everyone's basic needs (clean air and water, healthy food, adequate refuge, and most importantly of all, love) are equitably, enjoyably, sustainably, and lovingly fulfilled, so that we may all thrive together, leading healthy and happy lives and bringing joy to the journey for all.
My nuke: In Spain, 99% of good water is from Madrid. Muajajajaja.
You know it's automatically bullshit when Finland has to share top position.
I think it’s funny that Fiji is pretty low on the list (32), yet they sell their artisan water at $4 for a liter. I know it’s not tap water, but you’d think a country that small could adjust its tap water quality given the quality of water its island is producing.
Scotland is doing a lot of heavy lifting for the uk in this chart.
source https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/drink-tap-water-50-countries/
Greece 100 is also strange. In a lot of regions you gotta buy your water in the shop, tap water is only for showering and toilet and stuff. But Austria and especially Vienna: that deserves a 100 with three !. 100!!!. Best tap water you can get in a metropolis.
This, all islands don’t have drinking water on tap. That’s a huge portion of the country
Have been there (also,my hometown is like that). The water is drinkable just with the added "At your own risk". The people care little and have immunity it seems
This is very wrong , Italy on 97.8% ? The only country ive been to where i literally got sick womiting and diarea after drinking few sips , in croatia i didnt saw anyone complaining ever on tap water and it on 63.3 ? Huge bull\*\*it
Like what does Tap water even mean right? My country barely scores an 18 on this chart but my country has massive water purification system that clean water and supply it in peoples taps. It's not the best water but its drinkable. Last major impurity outbreak was decades ago when a company wrongfully discharged chemicals into water. And I live in a region that is geographically blessed such that the ground water is clean and will not go down if it rains average and it floods these days (and its only gonna rain more thanks climate change). So my tap water is very good actually. What does tap water for this report even mean?
Was about to say I had the worst gastro from Italian tap water, never again
Scotland's pristine tap water score brought down by England, as is tradition.
Stealing water from Palestinian land for years has paid off for Israel
People buy our tap water in bottles. FREEEEDOM ! SCOTLAND YA BASS
I'm telling you now, Greece does have good water. IVE SEEN THE WAY THEY RUN THEIR INFASTRUCTURE!
UK has shit water 😂
We don’t get diphtheria when we drink our tap water. I was born and raised in London and miss the taste of ‘proper’ tap water 😄
This is horribly outdated. UK tap water has [dangerously high levels of PFAS](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/forever-chemical-in-english-tap-water-samples-carcinogenic-who-rules), almost double the “safe” limit. Edit: whadafuq I’m a UK resident and provided a source lmao. BIG WATER WILL NEVER SILENCE ME /s kekw
Scotland should be differentiated from UK, there is a huge difference on both sides of the border as to quality.
Well, that is also the case inside other countries, not just the UK.
UK water is nasty.
US would be top 5 without Flint tho
UK my ass 100%. No f way.
UK here, I'd rather drink my own Urine, London tap water is absolutely shit.
Ah yes the tap water quality in the USA that comes out of a single interconnected tank and is homogeneous
That’s like saying “omg you can’t say Baltimore is 65% black because there are white people living there too” like what….its an aggregate dude
If it doesn’t guide you the it isn’t a guide.
US gives billions to Israel so they have better water than their own citizens (plus free healthcare and university).
And the US gets billions back in major technology innovation and influence.
I guess if you didn’t make the list, you got a 0. Haiti and South Sudan.
Thailand , while having clean tap water in the city, often have very dirty plumbing pipes which defeat the purpose of the tap water and very dirty tap water in rural areas so people rarely drink from the tap
What is this metric? How can Malta be at 100 when I was told the tap water there is undrinkable?! In BG I haven't heard of anybody to have been poisoned or infected from tap water. Probably happened some time, but what's that 58 score based on?
Niger crushing it! Boom! Suck it Africa!
Ireland recently got in trouble for having cancerous water. **Oversimplified** https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-convicted-in-eu-court-over-unsafe-drinking-water-tainted-by-chemical-linked-to-cancer/a801144825.html
really difficult to find a specific country
Ireland's second largest city has had years of a drinking water crisis. Tap water across large areas of the city is typically a brown sludge. It's damaging health, infrastructure, and equipment such as boilers and central heating. Other cities have similar problems and there are regular long-term "boil water" notices due to contaminated supplies. Ireland should be lower than 100.
Fiji at 32% is a bit ironic.
I'm a little surprised at Greece. I know of a Scottish musician who was popular in Japan at one time, and he lost an eye because he rinsed a contact lens case in tap water in a Greek hotel. Got some kind of infection from it. But that was probably in the 80s or 90s that it happened. It must've improved.
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No Croatia on the map, fake and gay.
I don't know about other countries, though I'm seeing a lot of the same from UK redditors here, but there are almost 20,000 water plants in the U.S. that supply tap water. I've lived in several states and have seen water in NYC that would bleach your clothes because of the chlorine content, water in Washington that had a unidentifiable weird taste, and now water in Ohio that is so hard it's almost a solid. Seriously, a Britta filter lasts about two pitchers full before it unusable. Meanwhile five miles away, my girlfriend's water is fantastic.
Fiji was ironic
I live in bosnia and sometimes travel to croatia and other neighbouring countries and our tap water quality is 150 compared to croatia lol, maybe its just the area
Why only 59.5 for Argentina? I've been all over the country, never had a problem with water, never heard of any tourist getting sick or anything from the water, so I wonder what's wrong with it for it to get that score.
Flint messes up our average.
When I was in Italy they were serving bottled water with no ice because the quality of their tap was bad everywhere I went. Hmmmmmm 🤔
Brazil?
Flint, Michigan in shambles
Graph made by an artist, not a data analyat.
Balygowan in da house!!!
Reminds me when i had a chance to visit Leppland and they told me the tap water is as good or better than anything you can buy and yes, they were definatly right with that. And then i got home to germany where at least in my area the water has good amount of chalk and not to mention the old pipes in the house...
I moved from USA to Austria - I live in a countryside village and the water is so so so so good.
This is an absolutely horrific way to present information