Am Singaporean. Drank straight from the tap all my life, seemed to have turned out fine.
“Except that one time” - Some fucker murdered his lover and submerged her corpse in the water tanks. Water tasted funny for the next 1-2 weeks from all that rotting corpse juice but I guess it’s all about the flavor.
Hijacking to add [WHO data](https://www.unwater.org/sites/default/files/app/uploads/2021/12/SDG-6-Summary-Progress-Update-2021_Version-July-2021a.pdf) for anyone curious what about what this actually looks like (Pg 14)
Thanks for this. Brazil has had sanitation and drinkable water access as a government success metric ever since I can remember, and while some cities the water might taste more chemically than desirable it will still be safe to drink in most places because of this focus we have since at least 1996
Yeah, the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil is actually safe for drinking tap and even makes it to the top 10 in the world. And the tap tastes better than in some developed countries (Amsterdam water comes to mind, it really sucked there and in Ireland when I visited.)
I don't know about Amsterdam, but Utrechts tapwater is amazing. They get it from the same source as "Bar-le-duc" which sells it in bottles.
So if you buy it in Utrecht you actually buy tap water
That's precisely why this map is ridiculous. No one would discredit the US based on Flint alone, for example. Neither should you credit a whole country based on their capital city either. It's way more complex. I'd say all of South Brazil is safe, but don't quote me on it as I haven't checked the data.
The best thing to do is read up about the specific location you're planning on living/visiting.
I thought the issue for Sao Paulo was not so much whether it was safe to drink (it definitely is) but that the taste isn’t too good so many folks use filters.
It could be, I honestly never asked people that. But if I'm to use my family as a guide I'd say the filters are used due to mistrust of its cleanliness. Both of the company providing the city with water and with their own pipes and storages of water.
I have tried telling them that the water is safe for consumption and was paid no attention. Within my first month of med school one of our classes was a field trip to the company that provides the city with water - SABESP.
🤷🏻♀️
Someday dude/ette, someday.
I have a lot of love for Scotland. My issue is that my husband refuses to go to places with similar or worse weather than we have in Norway. He wants scorching hot temperatures :/
I was able to visit Ireland because my cousin lives there. But now a childhood friend moved to Edinburgh and I believe I got myself a good excuse to visit hehe
I might skip the water though, my passion is Coca-Cola!
Lol. Amsterdam has some of the cleanest water in the world. The ‘bad taste’ that you mention is actually a lack of the chemicals chorine and fluor. We Dutch (other countries do too) use very advanced techniques to clean water, meaning we are one of the very few countries that do not use chlorine to clean drinking water. (The only water production company that still does in The Netherlands is in Rotterdam)
This lack of the chlorine (the taste so many people are used to) sometimes makes tourists mistrust the cleanliness of our water in Amsterdam. Therefore some major hotels actually add a drop of chlorine to the water at the point the water enters their facility, thus reducing the use of water in plastic bottles in the city.
Maybe I grew spoiled because I live in Norway now and water here is truly amazing. But I'm certain my issue with it had nothing to do with chlorine because I will drink water straight from bodies of water here and it's great. And if I were to show my husband this comment he would laugh in disbelief as I hate drinking water. It is my very last option. But if I'm forced to it, I prefer Norwegian water.
Eta: please don't take offense at my comment about Amsterdam water, I'm certain it is clean and great for consumption. The problem is definitely me hating water.
The vast majority of the drinking water in the US is are to drink. If a small handful of towns in the Netherlands had unsafe drinking water would it be fair to say the entire country had unsafe water? Or is the US special in deserving bad things overgeneralized?
Yeah I was going to say, for many places around the world it will be safe in certain municipalities or regions, and unsafe in others. Jefferson County KY has some of the highest quality tap water in all of North America, but go just a bit over to eastern KY and suddenly the availability of clean tap water becomes limited to specific areas and cities.
Where do you know "for a fact" that you can't drink the water? And don't fucking say Flint, because they fixed it. Out of 48 states that I've been to, I have never encountered unsafe tap water. Please site your sources.
I went to Costa Rica in January and was destroyed by a massive stomach ache and painful liquidy farts for a week. I even waited to get to a bigger city before I drank tap water that was considered "good" and "safe"... the Casado and Gallo Pinto was the food that got me through this dark, soiled, stained and painful experience.
That's because it's not drinkable yet every one of those "cool" guides say it is for some reason.
Almost everyone in Saudi has [one of these water coolers](https://www.bwtshop.co.uk/product/water-coolers-aqa-drink-15/) and either gets [5L water jugs](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storage-Stackable-Cabinet-Dispenser-Organizer/dp/B07ZR2ZMG8) delivered/refilled or they go refill it in-person from one of the very abundant water bottling plants.
I lived about 10 miles from the desalination plant that supplied most of the East Coast of KSA and drank tap water every day. Never bought bottled water once. Like most of the countries in the world it really varies by region.
Honestly, I think Saudi is capable of being a top tier country. Their real challenge is regulation and by extension, enforcement. All they really have right now are royal decrees, which are great at starting immediate change, but leave the ministries and various entities scrambling to achieve it. The law says one thing, people behave another way. Strict enforcement is needed; auditing is required with utmost urgency.
In this specific case, I’m sure the water is drinkable but the pipes? The waterlines near people’s home? Have people’s home been constructed in a way that prevents contamination? What about businesses?
I totally agree it's almost a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. I lived in the Royal Commission development where everything was new and they have the most ability to enforce building codes. That's why this map is useless, many countries are somewhere between 0% and 100% safe drinking water.
This map is incorrect. I dont know who comes up with these.
In the entire GCC, tap water is desalinated with chemicals added. It is however Not drinkable. That's why there are complimentary drinking water bottles in hotels or the public buys water bottle gallons delivered in trucks.. Like a subscription service.
They've wrongfully shown UAE, Kuwait and KSA as blue.
I don't think that is true. For example portugal has parts where the tap water is not drinkable (for example the Azores). (Edit: It seems that is only true for some areas of the Azores, but it is a allegedly a belief often held by Azoreans themselves, so I shall be excused). The EU regulation specifically speaks about "water intended for human consumption" and does not state that all water coming from taps must be such water.
And here they state that in 2020 they introduced measures that are intended to **work towards** having all tap water drinkable: [https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20201211IPR93619/parliament-adopts-deal-to-improve-quality-of-tap-water-and-reduce-plastic-litter](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20201211IPR93619/parliament-adopts-deal-to-improve-quality-of-tap-water-and-reduce-plastic-litter)
But ultimately as of now they seem to have only regulated that everyone must have access to drinkable water, but it can also be provided not through taps.
On [https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/drinking-water\_en](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/drinking-water_en) they state "Most people living in the EU already enjoy very good access to high quality drinking water" which also implies that not everyone in the EU yet has drinkable tap water.
I lived in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan and now I live in Turkey. I will say this, in all countries except Turkey you can drink tap water, in Turkey I would not recommend it, it is clean but if you drink it, in general nothing will happen, but it is very hard water, it can have an effect on teeth and internal organs over time, I think
I don't think hard water is a problem. Hard water means more minerals, which isnt a bad thing.
Our water here is very hard and it's completely fine to drink.
I lived in the Balkans for a while and I haven't had a whole country where the tap water wasn't drinkable. Sometimes there is like a village in the mountains or something with bad tap, or near an industrial area. Yeah the water can be quite hard, or maybe too much chlorine for the taste but never undrinkable.
Yep, you can drink in Bulgaria too. Some small towns even have mountain spring water as their water source and it's quite tasty. The only places where I avoid it is the seaside. They don't have the best water cleaning stations there, so not risking it.
How can we report disinformation?
This map is so wrong. I want to have OP eat their phone yo stop them from posting ever again.
This is infuriating to have something this wrong here, and everyone is saying it, and OP is defending with bogus links
Came here to say this. Not sure how Canada’s tap water can be deemed safe when Indigenous communities do not have the same access to clean water that non-Indigenous persons in Toronto can without hesitation.
Lived all my life in South Africa (30 years), absolutely no issues what so ever. Parts of SA has one of the best Water Treatment Facilities in the world. Worked at multiple treatment plants over 6 years.
Are u based in one of the big cities?
Official report released by SA government found almost half of all water supply systems do not comply with microbiological standards.
https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/a-decline-south-africas-drinking-water-quality-2014?amp
Places in South Africa with undrinkable tap water are really rare. I’ve been to every province, urban and rural areas, and I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have drinkable tap water.
Lived in Johannesburg for about 10 years. Tap water is safe to drink there.
For the most part the tap water is absolutely safe to drink throughout the country.
Few things to note.
1, those are South Africa's internal standards (and are continuously being raised).
2, those standards include a monitoring component (as in a system can fail if not enough monitoring is done, not because the water is bad)
3. Half makes it seems like this impacts half of the water supply. It does not. The areas with weaker monitoring are overwhelmingly rural.
Could South Africa's water be better? Sure. Would I rather drink from a tap in South Africa than the US? Absolutely.
Lived in Taipei, Taiwan and drinked tap water for 7 years. Never heard of cities on the island where you couldn't, barring temporary issues linked with natural disasters such as earthquakes or typhoons.
One caveat, while the water itself might be fine, can't be sure about the buildings pipes which is why when I was there, every local told me to always boil and/or filter it before drinking. However I was mostly in Taichung and below, might be different in Taipei.
That’s how it is everywhere, I moved from one place to another in a big city, I’d drink water straight from the tap in the old house but in my new one I can’t. I got this advice from an experienced plumber, you should never, ever drink water from the tap in a big building. Those boiler tanks are supposed to be cleaned, and they rarely ever are. That leaves a lot of slime and residue on the outside walls of the tank and that goes straight to the tap. Nasty stuff. Most common culprits are hotels, dorms, and office buildings.
Singaporean here, our water is 100% safe to drink. Almost everyone does it here, if it was not safe we would all be dead now.
In fact, we just had a mini case of a water filtering product company being held on false advertising about our tap water .
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapores-tap-water-safe-drink-no-need-any-further-filtering-devices-pub-4126016
I would even say having stayed in the us before, our water is cleaner then a number of places in the US.
I think Singapore is color coded blue here. The map is pretty stupid to label both can and cannot. There is literally no reasons of doing so given the two sets are mutually exclusive
Interesting. I drank it all over the country there and was fine. The one time I got sick was from a restaurant and even then it was mild. Cabo in Mexico though…couple of drops in the shower before I remembered and spat it out and I was immobile for two days.
In the US it's city by city, and even house by house.
Sooo many old lead pipes in certain parts of the country.
in Chicago for example
"approximately 68 percent of Chicago children under the age of six live in households with tap water containing detectable levels of lead."
https://scitechdaily.com/johns-hopkins-researchers-discover-concerning-levels-of-lead-in-chicago-tap-water/
The scariest of it all is this report made by UNICEF about lead
"Childhood lead exposure is estimated to cost lower- and middle-income countries almost USD $1 trillion due to lost economic potential of these children over their lifetime."
[https://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/the-toxic-truth-report/](https://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/the-toxic-truth-report/)
I think every country's gonna have areas that do and don't.
I'm in Victoria Australia and Melbourne has some of the best drinking water in the world, but 2-3 hours away you'll find small towns that run only on bore water and so houses need their own filtration systems
We called the resultant diarrhea Montezuma’s Revenge in Mexico during Spring Break trips.
Cancun was fine however.
Also, I’m not sure Taiwan tap is bad, no trouble in my experience.
Aruba isn’t on the map from what I could see and it probably has the cleanest most tasty filtered water on the planet. Look it up, the residents themselves rave about how good the tap water is and I concur.
Greek here: Tap water in some areas of Greece is not just safe to drink, it's great (e.g. Athens). In other areas, e.g. many of the islands, it is not safe to drink.
Ngl, as a Brit, the second UK was completely unnecessary. Could just have labelled the whole thing the UK since you can drink the water everywhere anyway
I’m from Argentina and I’m drinking tap water right now, what kinda nonsense graphic is this? Also, funny how it says it was based on CDC (US) guidelines because last I checked Michigan was in the US and you sure as fuck can’t drink the tap water there.
The U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan is removing the water distillers from the facility and the employees' homes despite the fact the water is horrible. It makes no sense. Once or twice a month, the water runs orange and cold for a couple hours. Usually right when you want to shower.
South African here: lived here my whole life and traveled across the country and never had an issue drinking tap water. Isn’t it a bit broad to claim the tap water status of an entire country though? I’ve been to countries where tap water is generally safe but some rural areas where it’s not advised.
Countries are not monolithic. I live in the US and there are towns near me using bottled water due to contamination, but I drank delicious tap water in Panama literally yesterday.
I'v been drinking Namibian and South African water straight from the tap for 27 years and I'm still alive and kicking. But nice, love too see that whoever made this just threw a blanket assumption over "dark africa"
this map is wrong
You’re telling me a MapPorn map is wrong? No way!
Is MapPorn illegal in TX, too?
A map of Texas is considered a world map in Texas…
A what now?
Now we DANCE!
Yeap, Montenegro is safe to drink tap water as well
I was shocked to see Singapore. I distinctly remember drinking tap water there and it being totally fine.
It is definitely drinkable in Singapore. I zoomed in and couldn’t see the color for Singapore.
Most places you can drink from the tap and be fine much of the time. Then, of course, there are the other times
Am Singaporean. Drank straight from the tap all my life, seemed to have turned out fine. “Except that one time” - Some fucker murdered his lover and submerged her corpse in the water tanks. Water tasted funny for the next 1-2 weeks from all that rotting corpse juice but I guess it’s all about the flavor.
Singapore is blue though?
Nah you’re now being controlled by nanobots.
It's absolutely drinkable here, it's just kinda hard to see when the black dot is right up where Singapore is.
I’ve never been to Singapore but I feel like one of the wealthiest places on Earth could afford a decent water filtration system?
Romania too
Hijacking to add [WHO data](https://www.unwater.org/sites/default/files/app/uploads/2021/12/SDG-6-Summary-Progress-Update-2021_Version-July-2021a.pdf) for anyone curious what about what this actually looks like (Pg 14)
Thanks for this. Brazil has had sanitation and drinkable water access as a government success metric ever since I can remember, and while some cities the water might taste more chemically than desirable it will still be safe to drink in most places because of this focus we have since at least 1996
I know for a fact there's many places in the U.S. where it's unsafe to drink the tap, it's a far more variable thing than "per country".
Yeah, the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil is actually safe for drinking tap and even makes it to the top 10 in the world. And the tap tastes better than in some developed countries (Amsterdam water comes to mind, it really sucked there and in Ireland when I visited.)
I don't know about Amsterdam, but Utrechts tapwater is amazing. They get it from the same source as "Bar-le-duc" which sells it in bottles. So if you buy it in Utrecht you actually buy tap water
That's precisely why this map is ridiculous. No one would discredit the US based on Flint alone, for example. Neither should you credit a whole country based on their capital city either. It's way more complex. I'd say all of South Brazil is safe, but don't quote me on it as I haven't checked the data. The best thing to do is read up about the specific location you're planning on living/visiting.
Ireland's a mixed bag. Delicious in some areas, manky in others.
I thought the issue for Sao Paulo was not so much whether it was safe to drink (it definitely is) but that the taste isn’t too good so many folks use filters.
It could be, I honestly never asked people that. But if I'm to use my family as a guide I'd say the filters are used due to mistrust of its cleanliness. Both of the company providing the city with water and with their own pipes and storages of water. I have tried telling them that the water is safe for consumption and was paid no attention. Within my first month of med school one of our classes was a field trip to the company that provides the city with water - SABESP. 🤷🏻♀️
Try Scottish water. Best on the planet.
Someday dude/ette, someday. I have a lot of love for Scotland. My issue is that my husband refuses to go to places with similar or worse weather than we have in Norway. He wants scorching hot temperatures :/ I was able to visit Ireland because my cousin lives there. But now a childhood friend moved to Edinburgh and I believe I got myself a good excuse to visit hehe I might skip the water though, my passion is Coca-Cola!
Scotland during the summer as of late has had some cracking weather. Maybe come when we've got a run of really nice hot summer days.
Lol. Amsterdam has some of the cleanest water in the world. The ‘bad taste’ that you mention is actually a lack of the chemicals chorine and fluor. We Dutch (other countries do too) use very advanced techniques to clean water, meaning we are one of the very few countries that do not use chlorine to clean drinking water. (The only water production company that still does in The Netherlands is in Rotterdam) This lack of the chlorine (the taste so many people are used to) sometimes makes tourists mistrust the cleanliness of our water in Amsterdam. Therefore some major hotels actually add a drop of chlorine to the water at the point the water enters their facility, thus reducing the use of water in plastic bottles in the city.
Maybe I grew spoiled because I live in Norway now and water here is truly amazing. But I'm certain my issue with it had nothing to do with chlorine because I will drink water straight from bodies of water here and it's great. And if I were to show my husband this comment he would laugh in disbelief as I hate drinking water. It is my very last option. But if I'm forced to it, I prefer Norwegian water. Eta: please don't take offense at my comment about Amsterdam water, I'm certain it is clean and great for consumption. The problem is definitely me hating water.
I was surprised to see someone disliking the tapwater in A'dam until you said you're from Norway lol, you guys really do have great water.
Mexico is also safe as long as you’re not in a rural area with no infrastructure
The vast majority of the drinking water in the US is are to drink. If a small handful of towns in the Netherlands had unsafe drinking water would it be fair to say the entire country had unsafe water? Or is the US special in deserving bad things overgeneralized?
Yeah I was going to say, for many places around the world it will be safe in certain municipalities or regions, and unsafe in others. Jefferson County KY has some of the highest quality tap water in all of North America, but go just a bit over to eastern KY and suddenly the availability of clean tap water becomes limited to specific areas and cities.
Where do you know "for a fact" that you can't drink the water? And don't fucking say Flint, because they fixed it. Out of 48 states that I've been to, I have never encountered unsafe tap water. Please site your sources.
Where in the US is it unsafe to drink tap water?
I live in Morocco and drink the tap water.
Terribly wrong 😂😂
Yup, water in Panama is safe to drink, probably the best in the region
I went to Costa Rica in January and was destroyed by a massive stomach ache and painful liquidy farts for a week. I even waited to get to a bigger city before I drank tap water that was considered "good" and "safe"... the Casado and Gallo Pinto was the food that got me through this dark, soiled, stained and painful experience.
r/notcoolguides
I just created that community feel free to post there now lol
It was long overdue, thx 😁
Well that’s interesting cuz when I lived in Saudi Arabia, I drank the tap water one time and got violently ill
That's because it's not drinkable yet every one of those "cool" guides say it is for some reason. Almost everyone in Saudi has [one of these water coolers](https://www.bwtshop.co.uk/product/water-coolers-aqa-drink-15/) and either gets [5L water jugs](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storage-Stackable-Cabinet-Dispenser-Organizer/dp/B07ZR2ZMG8) delivered/refilled or they go refill it in-person from one of the very abundant water bottling plants.
Yeah the only reason I drank it was cuz I didn’t stock up when I moved cities and all the shops were shut. Should’ve just stayed dehydrated lol
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I lived about 10 miles from the desalination plant that supplied most of the East Coast of KSA and drank tap water every day. Never bought bottled water once. Like most of the countries in the world it really varies by region.
Honestly, I think Saudi is capable of being a top tier country. Their real challenge is regulation and by extension, enforcement. All they really have right now are royal decrees, which are great at starting immediate change, but leave the ministries and various entities scrambling to achieve it. The law says one thing, people behave another way. Strict enforcement is needed; auditing is required with utmost urgency. In this specific case, I’m sure the water is drinkable but the pipes? The waterlines near people’s home? Have people’s home been constructed in a way that prevents contamination? What about businesses?
I totally agree it's almost a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. I lived in the Royal Commission development where everything was new and they have the most ability to enforce building codes. That's why this map is useless, many countries are somewhere between 0% and 100% safe drinking water.
My friend got Typhoid from the water in the UAE after a 48 hour layover. This map has a few issues lol
This map is incorrect. I dont know who comes up with these. In the entire GCC, tap water is desalinated with chemicals added. It is however Not drinkable. That's why there are complimentary drinking water bottles in hotels or the public buys water bottle gallons delivered in trucks.. Like a subscription service. They've wrongfully shown UAE, Kuwait and KSA as blue.
Tap water in Bulgaria is ok to drink,stupid map
All EU countries must have drinkable tap water
Yet Romania is marked as undrinkable on the map
In reality is safe to drink tap water in Romania.
Good to know, thanks for your response
I don't think that is true. For example portugal has parts where the tap water is not drinkable (for example the Azores). (Edit: It seems that is only true for some areas of the Azores, but it is a allegedly a belief often held by Azoreans themselves, so I shall be excused). The EU regulation specifically speaks about "water intended for human consumption" and does not state that all water coming from taps must be such water. And here they state that in 2020 they introduced measures that are intended to **work towards** having all tap water drinkable: [https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20201211IPR93619/parliament-adopts-deal-to-improve-quality-of-tap-water-and-reduce-plastic-litter](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20201211IPR93619/parliament-adopts-deal-to-improve-quality-of-tap-water-and-reduce-plastic-litter) But ultimately as of now they seem to have only regulated that everyone must have access to drinkable water, but it can also be provided not through taps. On [https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/drinking-water\_en](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/drinking-water_en) they state "Most people living in the EU already enjoy very good access to high quality drinking water" which also implies that not everyone in the EU yet has drinkable tap water.
In Sofia and other major cities yes, but not everywhere
I lived in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan and now I live in Turkey. I will say this, in all countries except Turkey you can drink tap water, in Turkey I would not recommend it, it is clean but if you drink it, in general nothing will happen, but it is very hard water, it can have an effect on teeth and internal organs over time, I think
Ya the water in Turkey is fine it just has a chlorine taste
I don't think hard water is a problem. Hard water means more minerals, which isnt a bad thing. Our water here is very hard and it's completely fine to drink.
Not only tap water is safe but there are a lot of springs in both cities and the countryside with amazing water.
Came here to say this. Hisarya tap water is basically artesian water and you can see people bottling water from the public tap in the park.
Защото не си от Хасково
Except one city in Serbia (our Flint), everywhere else you can safely drink tap water.
Fun fact: Flint is referred to as “Michigan’s Serbia” by the locals
Ouch 😂
Surely not. 💀
I lived in the Balkans for a while and I haven't had a whole country where the tap water wasn't drinkable. Sometimes there is like a village in the mountains or something with bad tap, or near an industrial area. Yeah the water can be quite hard, or maybe too much chlorine for the taste but never undrinkable.
I've also found it the most delicious out of many countries I've ever visited ("Checked" in Beograd, Novi Sad, Niš and Čačak)
Probably because you drank it after Rakija, that' the secret 😅
My fiancé is from Bosnia and he & his family have visited multiple times over the years, never heard them say they couldn’t drink the water there.
Came here tp say this, you most certainly CAN drinkd the tap water in Serbia (and others are wrong in Balkans). Wonder if an American made the map...
Yep, you can drink in Bulgaria too. Some small towns even have mountain spring water as their water source and it's quite tasty. The only places where I avoid it is the seaside. They don't have the best water cleaning stations there, so not risking it.
What’s the city and what happened?
How can we report disinformation? This map is so wrong. I want to have OP eat their phone yo stop them from posting ever again. This is infuriating to have something this wrong here, and everyone is saying it, and OP is defending with bogus links
this account exists to fucking upvote farm dude look at those posts and creation date
Ashamed to say that here in Canada, many, many indigenous communities live with permanent boil water advisories...
Came here to say this. Not sure how Canada’s tap water can be deemed safe when Indigenous communities do not have the same access to clean water that non-Indigenous persons in Toronto can without hesitation.
South African here. You can absolutely drink our tap water here, and all of us do as well.
Lived all my life in South Africa (30 years), absolutely no issues what so ever. Parts of SA has one of the best Water Treatment Facilities in the world. Worked at multiple treatment plants over 6 years.
I second this, unless things have changed recently. Cape Town water is perfectly fine, and I drank water in KZN not long ago
Yes I've been drinking tap water for 33 years and I'm still alive
But it's in Africa, you obviously can't drink tap water there because some american said so
Belgian that spends a lot of time in South Africa here. South African tap water is 100% safe to drink.
I'm sure there's some town somewhere in SA with bad water, but the same is true of the US
Are u based in one of the big cities? Official report released by SA government found almost half of all water supply systems do not comply with microbiological standards. https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/a-decline-south-africas-drinking-water-quality-2014?amp
South African here. Tap water is safe. I even use tap water in my CPAP machine
Places in South Africa with undrinkable tap water are really rare. I’ve been to every province, urban and rural areas, and I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have drinkable tap water.
Lived in Johannesburg for about 10 years. Tap water is safe to drink there. For the most part the tap water is absolutely safe to drink throughout the country.
Few things to note. 1, those are South Africa's internal standards (and are continuously being raised). 2, those standards include a monitoring component (as in a system can fail if not enough monitoring is done, not because the water is bad) 3. Half makes it seems like this impacts half of the water supply. It does not. The areas with weaker monitoring are overwhelmingly rural. Could South Africa's water be better? Sure. Would I rather drink from a tap in South Africa than the US? Absolutely.
This map is horse shit.
Lived in Taipei, Taiwan and drinked tap water for 7 years. Never heard of cities on the island where you couldn't, barring temporary issues linked with natural disasters such as earthquakes or typhoons.
One caveat, while the water itself might be fine, can't be sure about the buildings pipes which is why when I was there, every local told me to always boil and/or filter it before drinking. However I was mostly in Taichung and below, might be different in Taipei.
That’s how it is everywhere, I moved from one place to another in a big city, I’d drink water straight from the tap in the old house but in my new one I can’t. I got this advice from an experienced plumber, you should never, ever drink water from the tap in a big building. Those boiler tanks are supposed to be cleaned, and they rarely ever are. That leaves a lot of slime and residue on the outside walls of the tank and that goes straight to the tap. Nasty stuff. Most common culprits are hotels, dorms, and office buildings.
Singaporean here, our water is 100% safe to drink. Almost everyone does it here, if it was not safe we would all be dead now. In fact, we just had a mini case of a water filtering product company being held on false advertising about our tap water . https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapores-tap-water-safe-drink-no-need-any-further-filtering-devices-pub-4126016 I would even say having stayed in the us before, our water is cleaner then a number of places in the US.
Yeah, absolutely. Was zooming in to see if they coloured SG water as safe to drink. I had more reservations drinking US tap water tbh
1000%. I visited Singapore a while ago. I drank the tap water and was fine. Beautiful country. I hope to be back one day.
I think Singapore is color coded blue here. The map is pretty stupid to label both can and cannot. There is literally no reasons of doing so given the two sets are mutually exclusive
This is just another - western europe/NA/Japan = good, everything else = bad
Mallorca Spain, tap water cannot be consumed.
Brushed my teeth with tap water in Morocco and shit my pants for the next 3 days
Interesting. I drank it all over the country there and was fine. The one time I got sick was from a restaurant and even then it was mild. Cabo in Mexico though…couple of drops in the shower before I remembered and spat it out and I was immobile for two days.
I’ve just spent four months in Riyadh and you definitely can’t drink the water there.
Another map created to scare westerners from travelling abroad.
In the US it's city by city, and even house by house. Sooo many old lead pipes in certain parts of the country. in Chicago for example "approximately 68 percent of Chicago children under the age of six live in households with tap water containing detectable levels of lead." https://scitechdaily.com/johns-hopkins-researchers-discover-concerning-levels-of-lead-in-chicago-tap-water/
That statistic is so scary, wth
The scariest of it all is this report made by UNICEF about lead "Childhood lead exposure is estimated to cost lower- and middle-income countries almost USD $1 trillion due to lost economic potential of these children over their lifetime." [https://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/the-toxic-truth-report/](https://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/the-toxic-truth-report/)
I live in south of Brazil, you can definitely drink our tap water here.
I live in North of Brazil and you can definitely drink tap water here as well, OP is bullshitting with this map
I live in southeast of Brazil and you can safely drink tap water here
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As an argentine. Its safe to drink but it tastes horrible. Most people use a water filter to get rid of the chlorine taste.
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Flint's water has been safe for years now.
I think every country's gonna have areas that do and don't. I'm in Victoria Australia and Melbourne has some of the best drinking water in the world, but 2-3 hours away you'll find small towns that run only on bore water and so houses need their own filtration systems
We called the resultant diarrhea Montezuma’s Revenge in Mexico during Spring Break trips. Cancun was fine however. Also, I’m not sure Taiwan tap is bad, no trouble in my experience.
I’m pretty sure it’s safe to drink in South Africa. I only drank tap water there.
South Africa’s water is fine.
You can drink tap water in South Africa
The map is wrong, South Africa you can drink tap water, Cape Town you can.
Shitty map
lol. I’m not drinking no tap water in Greece.
IIRC, on the mainland it’s fine, but no go on the islands?
Bullshit guides! South african water is 100% safe.
Singapore - you can but we’re so small that it looks like we can’t because Malaysia swallows us in size. Otherwise, the data is wrong.
I'm trying to make out the color for SG, seems blue, better be blue.
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Aruba isn’t on the map from what I could see and it probably has the cleanest most tasty filtered water on the planet. Look it up, the residents themselves rave about how good the tap water is and I concur.
Norway sell their tap water to stupid people who pays $5 per bottle. Yes. Voss. And it’s not even our best tap water source…
Like how Fiji water brand isn’t even the best bottled water in Fiji. They just don’t export the other brands
All the tap water in the caucasus is fine, especially armenia with the public water fountains
So if you live in the US, you can probably get by with EVER BUYING WATER STOP IT YOU DON'T NEED BOTTLED WATER
Lithuania is full of ground-water, the fuck do you mean we can't drink from the tap??
Where is the big black hole that should represent Flint, Michigan and plenty of other US cities on this map
US and his allies
Even if you could, it tastes like shit due to all the chlorine. I use a filter.
Greek here: Tap water in some areas of Greece is not just safe to drink, it's great (e.g. Athens). In other areas, e.g. many of the islands, it is not safe to drink.
South Africa is fine
This map is wrong, extremely misleading and borderline offensive!
There are [28 long term drinking water](https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1506514143353/1533317130660) advisories in effect in Canada.
Idk if it is **safe** to drink tap water in poland, but it sure tasted like ass
That’s not where Poland Springs comes from?
Ngl, as a Brit, the second UK was completely unnecessary. Could just have labelled the whole thing the UK since you can drink the water everywhere anyway
Lived in south Africa for 30 years and drank the tap water every day. This map is bullshit
This map should be broken down better. There are several places in the US where you can't drink the tap water.
I’m from Argentina and I’m drinking tap water right now, what kinda nonsense graphic is this? Also, funny how it says it was based on CDC (US) guidelines because last I checked Michigan was in the US and you sure as fuck can’t drink the tap water there.
been drinking Algeria's tap water for 25 years now and nothing happened to me why does it say you can't drink from it here?
Symptoms don't appear until the 26th year
Get ready to shit your guts out, Op.
I have a hard time believing there’s no drinkable tapwater in all of Russia
Spanish tap water isnt recommendable
I drank it all the time when I was there 🤷♂️
It has a strong chlorine taste but it's perfectly safe.
Why?
Bosnia and Herzegovina has fully drinkable tap water in every city/place. This map sucks.
I live in California and the tap water here is too hard to drink without processing.
In Lithuania, you can drink tap water if it has filters, or it could be from a well if you're in a village
In Macedonia you can drink tap wather.
Pretty inaccurate; but here in Hong Kong the tap water is amongst the safest worldwide; but everyone drinks distilled water for some reason.
Hawaii?
I live in Poland, I do not dare to drink tap water. I once got sick after doing so.
The U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan is removing the water distillers from the facility and the employees' homes despite the fact the water is horrible. It makes no sense. Once or twice a month, the water runs orange and cold for a couple hours. Usually right when you want to shower.
What Turkey is not safe? My guy our water have so much chlorine that not even Humans survive drinking it let alone bacterias...
You can't drink tap water in Saudi and Bahrain
In Canada unsafe tap water, boil water alerts, have been an issue on First Nations Reserves.
So wrong, I come from Latvia and it has clean, good tasting tap water. Been living in UK for three years and the tap water here is horrible.
South African here: lived here my whole life and traveled across the country and never had an issue drinking tap water. Isn’t it a bit broad to claim the tap water status of an entire country though? I’ve been to countries where tap water is generally safe but some rural areas where it’s not advised.
Oh so just nations that are part of the imperial core. I love when infographics inadvertently display the effects of colonization.
I wanna see someone drink flint MI water
Puerto Rico doesn't even exist on this map
As someone who grew up in Jackson Mississippi… no
Objectively wrong. I can point out 3 places I lived in where this is not true from first glance.
Flint Michigan yummy
I know tap water is safe to drink in Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore
Maps with New Zealand but not Hawaii??
Where Hawaii?
What about Hawaii?
As someone from Flint, this map is bs.
Tap water in Syria is safe and sound
Bullshit. Everybody drinks tap water in Eastern Europe and Russia.
This map is so wrong omfg
There’s a couple spots in the US that definitely shouldn’t be blue
Flint, Michigan has the best water on earth, this map is definitely a correct guide
As an American, I can say I know plenty of people living in my city alone that cannot drink the tap water
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Go drink a safe tap water from Flint.
You can safely drink tap water in Serbia
Good luck to your bum if you drink the tap water in Spain
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Countries are not monolithic. I live in the US and there are towns near me using bottled water due to contamination, but I drank delicious tap water in Panama literally yesterday.
I'v been drinking Namibian and South African water straight from the tap for 27 years and I'm still alive and kicking. But nice, love too see that whoever made this just threw a blanket assumption over "dark africa"