Tap Water Safety

The cluster discusses the drinkability and quality of tap water in different regions, debates over its safety compared to bottled water, and preferences for filtration or alternatives due to contamination concerns.

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Sample Comments

amazingamazing • Apr 30, 2025 • View on HN

the default water people consume comes from the tap. you don't see how it's different? it's not like people buy water of their choice and hook it up to their plumbing.

andybak • Mar 7, 2024 • View on HN

Wow. The tap water isn't so good, where you are then?

dillondoyle • Jul 3, 2018 • View on HN

It's not like someone from the US who has only drank clean processed water

keep_reading • Nov 5, 2023 • View on HN

I hope you don't drink bottled water... it's just tap water from some exploited municipality

CydeWeys • May 28, 2019 • View on HN

Apparently you wouldn't want to drink the tap water there anyway, based on some cursory research.

drb91 • Jun 20, 2018 • View on HN

How do you not consider drinkable tap water to be a huge deal?

entropicgravity • Aug 23, 2022 • View on HN

Is your water pure? You had better hope not.

barbazoo • May 27, 2025 • View on HN

I’m sorry you live in a city without drinkable tap water.

loeg • Sep 22, 2017 • View on HN

The bottled water is just somewhere else's tap water.

frandroid • Aug 26, 2015 • View on HN

Welcome to the developing world where you don't drink water coming out of the tap, even if it's chlorinated.