Yep, developed countries do.
It's impressive the logical hoops you'll jump through to justify terribly inadequate public services and then just wave it away saying "it's good to pay for better quality".
https://bestlifeonline.com/worst-drinking-water/
A drip (aka wick) filter is a cheap enough way to remove a lot that.
https://bestlifeonline.com/best-drinking-water/
I guess that depends on where you are.
Also take a look at the number of contaminants in the water for each those cities in your source. It's not zero for any of them.
Why? Liquids are restricted at security, but bottles aren’t.
Brought an empty sodastream concentrate bottle before out of desperation.
Whenever an airport doesn’t have fountains, I always ferry a complaint.
Too often not.
https://bestlifeonline.com/worst-drinking-water/
And that's not an endorsement for bottled water, which has also often been found to be as bad as or worse than tap water.
I use a drip / wick filter. Very cheap and it removes a lot of the bad stuff and makes the water taste better.
I don’t know for sure, but I think parent was making a quip about the U.S. not being a developed country.
Most municipalities in industrialized countries regularly publish water quality tests and reports. Most areas also have independent testing labs that are used by private citizens to test their well water, so you're always free to double-check the official reports.
Rural areas are the ones who often don't. And industrial farming isn't the only way (literal) shit can contaminate your water supply.
Well yes, that's why I mentioned reports in the first place.
> And industrial farming isn't the only way (literal) shit can contaminate your water supply.
Agreed. Don't drink water out of fresh looking mountain streams unless you want to risk being sick for weeks.
But the topic is tap water & bottled water. In rural areas in developed countries and where there is little risk of industrial farming contamination, there should be no hesitation in drinking the tap water as a visitor. If you live there, then of course get the water tested. Trusting any water long term without tests is a risk. And since lots of testing is either free or very cheap, there is no reason not to.
You can't taste many industrial chemicals or even biological contaminants. Tap water can taste great and be unsafe. And taste horrible due to minerals and be perfectly safe. You really need to see regular reports on water tests to understand if the local infrastructure provides safe drinking water.
It's theoretically possible that your particular town's tap water comes straight from the devil's armpit, and has a generous helping of cyanide and arsenic in it, but in the vast, vast majority of the developed world, there is not a damn thing wrong with it.