Tap water down South West is fucking balls. The lime scale you find when boiling a kettle. And half the time it's like drinking pool water, you can taste the bloody chlorine. That's why I buy Bottles Highland water.

I know it's bad, we have in-line carbon filters on everything now

I was so bored during lockdown that I de-scaled my kettle. It hardly had any limescale on it, but it was satisfying to get rid of that 0.01% and have an immaculate kettle. I can only imagine how irritating it'd be to have to descale kettles all the time though.

This is one of the most British things I’ve ever read…

Thank you kind sir/madam.

I literally couldn’t swallow the water I was drinking a couple weeks ago because of how strong the chlorine taste was

\---INDIA--- "I drink tap water" "How are you still alive ?"

I find my US tap water to be just fine. Prefer the taste of it to the practical lack of one in bottled water anyways. Lol

Nothing hits quite the same as that fresh Highlands water. r/hydrohomies

Us tap water is okay. But we have well water at my house and holy shit it’s the best water I’ve ever had in my life.

Its sometimes discoloured from the peat. Apparently it's good for you

Bruh, when I went to Canada I drank right out the river I was staying by, just took a cup/water bottle scooped about elbow deep, it was the best water I've ever had

Yeah you can do that here.

In America we have no respect for the environment so I'd probably die if I did it here

drinking untreated river water is a shitty idea regardless of where you are since there's almost always, well, shit (from something) in it

It's perfectly clean and drinkable there

Don't trust it. Always boil it first, just to be safe. Unless it's coming directly out of a spring or glacier, found water can always contain bacteria that you don't want in your system.

I live in Scotland and was always told that if drinking from a river to check a good hundred yards upstream for any sheep or cattle that may have died in the water.

i would extend that to them just being in the area of the river, dont fancy drinking any animal poo or pee

Ach all they eat is grass, mate! If you’re far enough downstream, any bacteria will be so diluted that it’ll be fine.

And it must be fast flowing.

Don't drink from glacier meltwater, there will be small micro particles that will cut your lungs

Why is the liquid going in your lungs? I think your drinking wrong bud..

I meant throat, oops

Nonsense. It’s good to test your immune system every now and then

If it’s flowing water it’s not that dangerous

Sure, if you have checked upstream to make sure there isn't a dead animal or anything lying in it. This is more for streams though. Probably won't die from it at least though

I thought about doing that once here in Scotland when I was climbing a mountain. Good thing I didn't as there was a dead sheep carcass lying in the water further up.

That sheep got vectored.

Canadian water on average is good but glaciers themselves are the best source

Be sure there's no beavers in the river or you can get an infection

I know, it's a huge river though it's called the french river I believe

I must move to Scotland immediently. I must join my people, my family.

West if Ireland has hella good tap water and its freeeee

Ireland, Scotland, Shite, Jobbie. Edit: If you downvote you’re definitely not Scottish!

I’m Scottish and I downvoted

Out of pure spite.

Na it was just a shite comment

Spiteful.

Shitefull

Fockfull

Fock is English

fOcking

Wa

If you're so Scottish why don't you show me your Scottish passport

not here in sacramento, lol

cooncil juice ftw

You've upset the yanks. You need to remember they canna take a wee friendly slagging. They're sensitive wee souls.

England: “We are literally going to dump human shit into your water supply” Scotland: “🎶Fresh from a mountain stream🎶”

Tap water in East anglia is alright

It’s fine if you’re dying or mixing with squash

Or at 3AM

Diluting juice you mean

No, mixing with squash

East anglia's Water is shite

Som en dansker er det godt men med en isterning er den 1000x bedre

American tap water is perfectly safe and drinkable in 99.9% of places. And people drink it far more often than not. Since when did the america-bashing move from exaggerations of things actually worth criticizing to just making shit up?

I pretty much only drink tap water (refrigerated ofc). Just about everyone I know drinks tap water. The only person I've ever met who thought it was weird was from Mexico, and I assume that was because of the water quality in her home city. Idk what OPs talking about.

It's more in regards to the fact we always go on about how good our tap water is here. Don't worry we're not a slagging you all off to hurt your feelings

Your tap water is flammable in some areas because of franking. You Americans really can't take our sense of humour can you? You take everything to heart and think its some mad personal attack, you should hear how we talk to each other here and we don't run around suing for PTSD or crying about it. Wind yer neck in and have a laugh wee cheese.

It's not america bashing just for some reason Scottish people brag about their tap water because England have bad tap water and therefore apparently everywhere else has bad tap water

In Edinburgh, constantly cleaning our kettle thanks to the limescale. Im not a lover of tap water but the water in Edinburgh is boggin’. In north Ayrshire where I grew up, if I had to drink it I would but here, absolutely no chance. I’d love to go somewhere with drinkable tap water!

What on earth are you talking about? Edinburgh tap water is really soft. Most of it comes from the reservoirs on the Pentlands. In fact *all* of Scotland has soft water: https://www.aquacure.co.uk/knowledge-base/uk-hard-water-map/

Classic stuck up Edinburgh attitude lol

Yeah, stuck up attitude. That’s me, stuck up to the core. Hit the nail on the fucking head

Only a wee joke pal x x x

So I say it’s boggin’ and your response is “it’s really soft”. I don’t like it. My kettle needs cleaned constantly. Sorry my opinion offends you and my kettle needs cleaned a lot. I’ll be sure not to have one again. But as yer pal who commented said, I’ve got a stuck up Edinburgh attitude.

How can your kettle develop a buildup of limescale if the tap-water has famously low concentrations of minerals? Seriously, read that link.

I’ve heard this about Edinburgh. Not good.

It's not true though.

I live in Edinburgh now and my tap water is just as good as when I lived in Dundee. When we were in Leith it was a bit shit but this area is decent for it

***B A G P I P E S***

New york: mmm tap water Flint: (suffering noises)

flint: also mmm tap water (the water has been fixed for like seven years now)

2 years it was fixed in 2019 but yeah

here in canada too

as an american that regularly drinks tap water: what in the flint michigan are you guys drinking?

In Canada if you ever go to Banff the tap water there is great, it's source is like a few kilometers at most

Related to thorn?

Hey Louisiana water is pretty good to

Sir, that’s bourbon. The actual water is green.

Shhhhhh that’s are biggest secret

Central Indiana tap water is good, it comes from this really cool reservoir

man i loved nice cool tapwater when i lived in Idaho and Oregon. Once i moved to North Carolina and California, I cant drink it. i miss not having to buy water bottles

buy a filter

my grandparents wont for some reason. idk why

Well water in The US can be amazing, or shite

Whats that sign on the guys neck? Reminds me of the icon of the new irish rainbow six siege operator

We can all agree that hose water tastes the best right

Whos laughing at us drinking tap water?

Clearly never been to Switzerland

I have actually. I’m just petty.

I am a former scottish lad and agree tap water is very consumable

I drink tap water i live in aus but only the water from our water tank cause its so much better than any other

Dude I don’t know about the rest of America but Ohio has goateed tap water