Just wanted to know if it's safe to drink tab water in your city, how clean your water sources are, etc.
I guess in most places it wouldn't be so safe, but just wanted to know what the big picture is.

So how's your city's water?

Our city's water is supposedly one of the most pure and good tasting in the world. It's clean but it's running out...

In Copenhagen it's aa clean as in the rest of Denmark. Examinations have shown that is is more healthy to drink then the bottled spring water.

Gauteng province in South Africa compromises three large cities, of which Pretoria and Johannesburg are two. There are no large rivers nearby, the cities came to be because of gold. So today Johannesburg is the largest city in the world without a major river or body of water next to it. We have an elaborate system to supply these cities with water - and Rand Water supplies it. Our tapwater is of excellent quality.

Zurich tab water is awesome and easily matches Evian and the like.
Quality is monitored by highly sensitive crawfish which detect even the slightest pollution.

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hmmm... i dunno
never drank tap water before

^^
Damn I couldn't imagine living like that...:dunno:

Well they tell you not to swim in Lake Ontario, let alone drink water from it. Granted, Toronto does have some of the best water purification systems out there, so it doesn't really matter too much.

the water in London is clean to drink even though on average it has been drunk 5 times before...

the water in London is clean to drink even though on average it has been drunk 5 times before...

Its also really hard water so everything gets covered in limescale and your washing machine blows up after 3 years.

definitely good!:cheers:

Tap water in Netherlands is also very good to drink, it is so clean you can give it to babies without having to boil it first.
I can remember a few years ago a local watercompany entered a watercontest and ended far above Perrier and Evian !

in the past our water came from this river (Ave):
http://viladoconde.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/mem_vconde.jpg

now it is from this one (Cávado)
http://www.inforosal.com/galeria/albums/rutabici2006/normal_rutabici2006-138.jpg

Now it is better, because the first river was really polluted by factories upriver. Now is cleaner, but... still not good, Cávado is better.

best Portuguese waters are bottled. Fastio from Gerês is my favourite. I doubt that Dutch water company would win it.

the municipalities that drink Cávado:
http://snirh.inag.pt/snirh/imagens_geral/dadsintese/abastecimento/ag-cavado.gif

Vegas water sucks.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Aug-18-Mon-2003/news/21949349.html
Cryptosporidium was linked to the deaths of 32 people in the Las Vegas area in 1994.

lol, if ever you try to drink the water from the Seine river in Paris, you'll die of an unknown sickness a few weeks later.

^^ No in fact the water of the Seine river is very clean (but don't drunk it, Paris is a big city and seine river has several freeways bridges and freeways on the bank) you can swin on the Seine
People fishing in the river.

http://www.urbanphoto.net/gallerytwo/g2data/albums/paris/106.JPG
http://www.urbanphoto.net/gallerytwo/g2data/albums/paris/183.JPG

The water come from the Seine and Paris has good purification systems, so the water is good and cheaper than bottles. :)

New York water is consider to be the best in the United States

^^ No in fact the water of the Seine river is very clean (but don't drunk it, Paris is a big city and seine river has several freeways bridges and freeways on the bank) you can swin on the Seine
People fishing in the river.

http://www.urbanphoto.net/gallerytwo/g2data/albums/paris/106.JPG
http://www.urbanphoto.net/gallerytwo/g2data/albums/paris/183.JPG

The water come from the Seine and Paris has good purification systems, so the water is good and cheaper than bottles. :)
Yeah, water in paris is pretty expensive.

river ave has tons of fish, if you jump to it, you can grab a dozen big fish, they are so many that water becomes dark but that's not good news, they feed on "pollution". Not all pollution means dead fish.

We have good and fresh water but a few weeks ago there was a bacterie found and meby 8 to 9 cities of The Netherlands couldn't drink water for a week. Now we can drink water again.

Toronto is blessed with very clean water. The intake pipe goes out one mile into the lake, and down to the bottom of very deep Lake Ontario. The water regularly tests cleaner than famous bottled water.

Barcelona's water is probably the worst I have tasted in my life, even brushing of the teeth was horrible, it was like sour or something.

New York water is consider to be the best in the United States

New York magazine did a blind tasting of City water last year. LA tap came in first, ahead of Paris, and way ahead of New York which came in last. Sorry Taylor, but you can always come to California for the waters.:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Yeah, water in paris is pretty expensive.

river ave has tons of fish, if you jump to it, you can grab a dozen big fish, they are so many that water becomes dark but that's not good news, they feed on "pollution". Not all pollution means dead fish.

No, in the Seine we found fish wich doesn't like pollution and dirty river.
It prove that Seine River is clean. :)

Our water is so pure that we sell our urine to Portual and Paris.

Madrid's water is really good

In Copenhagen it's aa clean as in the rest of Denmark. Examinations have shown that is is more healthy to drink then the bottled spring water.

^^ The same like in most of Germany. There was a watercontest in which the tap water won against various brands of bottled water. Perrier finished last.

I couldn't stop drinking the water in Madrid. So good. Better than Chicago, where I live. (ours is good but you can smell the chlorine sometimes) Barcelona on the other hand is gross. I only drank bottled water when I was there. Valencia Spain is very drinkable.

Madrid's water is really good

hmm, alot of talk about getting water out of normal lakes. here in melbourne, our several resoviuors are restricted spaces, and you can't access them

i only ever drink out of the tap here...haha, u can drink warm water when having a shower too.
in moscow i only ever brushed my teeth with the water, had to get bottles water to drink it.

^^ lol I do that sometimes!

California gets its water from melting snowcaps, afaik.

It is safe to drink, but my family boils it out of habit.

Keep in mind the water that comes out of your faucet is not always a good (or bad) representation of your city's actual water quality. Poorly-maintained city water mains and even the piping system of your house or dwelling structure plays a *huge* factor in the actual quality of your tap water. Your city can have the best tap water in the world but if you got rusty pipes, it's gonna look (and taste) like crap when it comes out of the tap.

(Hey, that rhymes...)

Ours is good.

Water in HK is generally safe though i never drank the city's tap water

http://www.wsd.gov.hk/

I can't really back this up with any written facts, but for sometime, my hometown of Saginaw, MI was considered to have the best tasting water in the world.

I do know it goes through more purifications processes than other cities across Michigan. It also comes from a clean freshwater source to begin with, nearly 70 miles north of the city, so there are no factories or anything nearby. It's supplied area is relatively small, only 200,000 customers which is basically only the city residents. The rest get their water piped from another purification plant.

I don't know of anyone in our area that owns those filters, since the water is clean to drink. For some reason though, I actually notice a difference in the water when I go to other cities, so I guess you can taste the difference.

Hong Kong's tap water is safe to drink. Primary sources are China (via pipeline) and the local reservoirs. There is an agreement in place to purchase water from China at a set price.

We have one of the highest water qualities and even though most of it comes from our lake (plus ground water). You can drink from every tap and fountain untreated water. The city tourism even will launch this summer definitly ZH2O:
http://www.zh2o.ch/img/zh2o_banner_de.gif
http://www.zh2o.ch
It's pure fountain water :)

From experience: Why is it that Madrids water is so good and barcelona's is shit?

Vancouver is extremely lucky to have the Mountains at our doorstep. There are three reservoirs restricted to the public located on them that collect the city's drinking water. Usually they are filled with rain that naturally filters through the forests. During the summer months the melting snowpack sustains the reservoirs.
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Whistler tap water is by far the best water I have ever tasted. It is so good and cold straight from the tap, especially when you wake up hung-over and dehydrated after a long night of partying.

Chris: Barcelona has unsalted and treated sea water as a base and Madrid ground water afaik - The mediterranean coast of Spain has really one of the worst drinking waters in taste :(

LA's is horrible....makes me ill if I drink it.:ohno:

LA's water = horrible.
I bet Vegas has it even worse

our water still clean and save to drink without boiling.

Hong Kong's tap water is safe to drink. Primary sources are China (via pipeline) and the local reservoirs. There is an agreement in place to purchase water from China at a set price.

I got pretty Ill when drinking tapwater in HK...:cheers:

I can understand that in USA city's waters are bad, why?

Oslo's water is quite good, coming from a water just outside the urban area, though inside the city, but many of the pipes are older than 100 years and running parallell with the sewer. So it has potential to be really bad, if the preassure fails...

The river near the city is too polluted to actually get any water from it.

We get our water from a few reservoirs about 15 km west and it's clean...I still don't trust them though.

Chris: Barcelona has unsalted and treated sea water as a base and Madrid ground water afaik - The mediterranean coast of Spain has really one of the worst drinking waters in taste :(

So is it desalinzed?

Pretty much any city in Australia has great water, but I hear adelaide's is bad.

Atlanta sometimes tastes great, but sometime you can see the water all white from so much chlorine.

Its also really hard water so everything gets covered in limescale and your washing machine blows up after 3 years.

That's because it's drawn from a chalk aquifer so it has high levels of CaCO3.

I can understand that in USA city's waters are bad, why?

Who said that?!? I've drank water from the tap in 45 states and 16 European countries and honestly I think they all taste pretty much the same - like water.

The US certainly doesn't have any better or worse water than other industrialized countries around the globe. Every single cities water is also very different. I always hear Chicago's water is some of the best, but then people from LA, Atlanta and NYC will tell you theirs is #1. It's not like our whole country gets our water from ONE river or anything.

My hometown got their water from an underground river, the city nextdoor got it from an above-ground river. Chicago gets it from Lake Michigan, LA gets it from large holding lakes up north. It all depends and it's all very unique and different. As long as you get it from a good source and clean it, water is water! A more useful conversation is who's water is noticibly BAD, i.e. cloudy, full of organisms, makes you sick, dirty looking, etc.

Keep in mind the water that comes out of your faucet is not always a good (or bad) representation of your city's actual water quality. Poorly-maintained city water mains and even the piping system of your house or dwelling structure plays a *huge* factor in the actual quality of your tap water. Your city can have the best tap water in the world but if you got rusty pipes, it's gonna look (and taste) like crap when it comes out of the tap.

Yeah, thats right. In case of Hamburg I think the water infrastructure is well maintained. Only the last meters (i.e. the pipes in your house) could lower the quality (still drinkable, just doesn't taste so good). The city is now even installing public drinking wells at tourist spots where it comes directly out of the tap.

I got pretty Ill when drinking tapwater in HK...:cheers:

HK Water is good out of the plant, but by the time it gets to the faucet, through the pipes, it might not be so good anymore.

That's what my dad says, he used to be an engineer for the WSD

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:uh: :puke:

That is just disturbing...are there human problems from the water?

HK Water is good out of the plant, but by the time it gets to the faucet, through the pipes, it might not be so good anymore.

That's what my dad says, he used to be an engineer for the WSD

Especially in older buildings without good maintenance of their water pipes. ;) This is not a problem unique to Hong Kong, though. Maintenance cost is rather high, many water pipes are right beneath major roads with heavy traffic. :( Actually Hong Kong tap water often stinks because of their pipes, often observable even by its exterior! Much more so than those from Winnipeg.

I was told that most Hong Kongers do not drink their tap water.

I tried that from a newer building in Southern part of the city. It was great, comparable to that of Saskatoon.

Saskatoon's tap water is very good.

Edmonton's even better--- often tastes slightly sweet.

Winnipeg, however, has some of the worst tap water quality in Canada.

Proud to say that Davao Water is one of the cleanest in the world and in the philippines

If you look at the last pic you can tell that someone just paste the top cat part, look at the difference in color from the head portion and the body. These are pretty sick!!

Who said that?!? I've drank water from the tap in 45 states and 16 European countries and honestly I think they all taste pretty much the same - like water.

The US certainly doesn't have any better or worse water than other industrialized countries around the globe. Every single cities water is also very different.

Now explain that ... it's very different but it's all just the same?


I always hear Chicago's water is some of the best, but then people from LA, Atlanta and NYC will tell you theirs is #1. It's not like our whole country gets our water from ONE river or anything.

My hometown got their water from an underground river, the city nextdoor got it from an above-ground river. Chicago gets it from Lake Michigan, LA gets it from large holding lakes up north.

I thought most LA's water came from the Colorado River ... that's what I was taught in school, anyway. What did they teach you about our water-supply?

It all depends and it's all very unique and different. As long as you get it from a good source and clean it, water is water! A more useful conversation is who's water is noticibly BAD, i.e. cloudy, full of organisms, makes you sick, dirty looking, etc.

I thought most LA's water came from the Colorado River ... that's what I was taught in school, anyway. What did they teach you about our water-supply?


Some of it does, but most of it comes from the mountains north of Sacramento, via the Owens Valley, through the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

From experience: Why is it that Madrids water is so good and barcelona's is shit?

don't know.maybe different purification processes.the water used here is mainly from dams and ground water

My city has too much problems associated with water pollution :ohno: . Many people die each year cuz' Health complaints related to the great amount of minerals it has (Silicon, Lead and Arsenic). Nowadays is almost illegal (or dangerous) to drink water from the fosset in my city.

Vienna has absolutely fine water. Its supply is nearly exclusively fresh water from the Alps. (other sources are pretty much for emergency or replacement during maintenance times) When being built the "Hochquellwasserleitung" consisting out of two lines of aqueducts leading from the mountains to the city were disigned for 3 mio people. Today the city has 1.6 mio inhabitants.

Those two aqueduct-lines are quite a great piece of architecture. They need no energy imput to deliver the water from the Alps to Vienna. The height difference is fully sufficient to do so, no pumps needed.

http://www.geologie.ac.at/images/hochquellen1.jpg
(The first Hochquellwasserleitung reaching Vienna)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/HQL_Plan_4C.svg/800px-HQL_Plan_4C.svg.png

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/safe_food_of_asia/imgs/3/d/3d2cb300.jpg

What is wrong with this cat?

Japan is high clean water processing water.
For processing, it is usually treated a granular active carbon creature processing / ozonation.
I do sale in PET bottle.
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Montreal water is good during the winter and ok during hot summer months..

Japan is high clean water processing water.
For processing, it is usually treated a granular active carbon creature processing / ozonation.
I do sale in PET bottle.
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/6681/press060530photokd8.jpg

Treating water with ozon is even illegal in the country I live. They treat the bottle with ozone before the water is filled in though, in order that the ozone does not remain in the bottle in the end.

I think its a huge waste of resources to rely solely on bottled water.

LA's is horrible....makes me ill if I drink it.:ohno:

Another idiot heard from; This article is from the 12/25/06 issue of New York Magazine. They have a very different opinion. I don't know what you have been drinking lately. It's probably not water.

Jonathan S. Paul

New Yorkers consider it axiomatic that our tap water tastes better than anyone else’s. The notion is up there with walking-and-talking speed as a point of civic pride. Here’s the catch: It appears not to be true. Recently, we assembled a panel of experts for an unscientific blind tasting of water from here and five other cities: Paris; Los Angeles; Seattle; Golden, Colorado; and Newark. According to our aficionados, not only does New York not have the best water, but we have the worst. A shock? Sure. An embarrassment? Nah. Screw the evidence. The very fact that we’re wrong only serves to prove that we’re proud.



First place: Los Angeles
“Exceptional. Like a bottled water.”
—Robert Condon, server, l’Atelier de Joël Robuchon


Second place: Paris
“The nose was bright and clear, but the taste was relatively neutral.”
—Richard Brierley, Christie’s head of north American wine sales



Third Place: Golden, Colorado
“Slightly chlorinated, but with a nice mineral taste.”
—Condon



Fourth place: Newark and Seattle (tie)
Newark: “Bright and flavorful; it had a minerality I quite liked.”
—Brierley
Seattle: “Sharp, crisp; the proper balance of minerals.”
—Diane Drey, president, Snowbird Water-Bottling Company



Fifth place: New York
“Metallic, chlorinated flavor. Smells like a Parks Department swimming pool.”
—Condon

Treating water with ozon is even illegal in the country I live. They treat the bottle with ozone before the water is filled in though, in order that the ozone does not remain in the bottle in the end.

I think its a huge waste of resources to rely solely on bottled water.

Because I succeeded in production of a nanobubble in Japan, it is going to be appointed in future by water purification. I can shut in ozone for a long term when I use this nanobubble. There is not yet nanobubble production stability technology in the world.

I coexist in the same water tank for the above-mentioned period for six months and can breed a freshwater fish and a saltwater fish of the super minute air bubble having many kinds that a nanobubble diameter is equal to or less than 1m.
Of the fish which weakened at the time of capture all is almost restored in water of a nanobubble of oxygen including salt of around 1% rapidly.
The removal of a virus and bacteria.
Culture of fish and shellfish that I do not use antibacterial and antibiotic for.
Others medical care and food processing, application to the stock-raising industry.

A freshwater fish and a saltwater fish of a water tank
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An orchid, deep-sea fish, a freshwater fish
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"heard with water, poisoned tooth powder" :rofl: your English is funny.

is it Japanese education all about? :lol:

A wing grows from a back.

A lizard of dual sovereignty was born in China two weeks ago, too. Six eggs became a topic a yolk, too.

Chinese water pollution affects neighboring Japan.
A huge jellyfish of 300 million length 5 meters hits Japan every year from China. And We are gave the serious fishery damage.

I want to pray so that people in the world can drink safe water sometime.

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Can the cat fly? and I heard the jellyfish is 50 meters long not 5 meters. :) I have believed all of you said and showed. :lol:

I also heard In Japan some language retarded people born some years ago due to the jellyfish people ate raw, do you know where they are now? :lol:

This China jellyfish has done serious damage to the fishing of Japan.


no need to comment any more. :rofl:

"Sommeliers" for water, and "Water Bars" make me want to barf. It's water. Period.
When someone drones on about they will only drink Fiji Water, or some other such commercially marketed stuff, because it "coats the throat", or other such nonsense, I want to slap them. Talk about the power of suggestion, and the power of advertising, not to mention useless consumerism and misplaced snobbery .

Another idiot heard from; This article is from the 12/25/06 issue of New York Magazine. They have a very different opinion. I don't know what you have been drinking lately. It's probably not water.

Jonathan S. Paul

New Yorkers consider it axiomatic that our tap water tastes better than anyone else’s. The notion is up there with walking-and-talking speed as a point of civic pride. Here’s the catch: It appears not to be true. Recently, we assembled a panel of experts for an unscientific blind tasting of water from here and five other cities: Paris; Los Angeles; Seattle; Golden, Colorado; and Newark. According to our aficionados, not only does New York not have the best water, but we have the worst. A shock? Sure. An embarrassment? Nah. Screw the evidence. The very fact that we’re wrong only serves to prove that we’re proud.



First place: Los Angeles
“Exceptional. Like a bottled water.”
—Robert Condon, server, l’Atelier de Joël Robuchon


—Condon

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