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Why don't Japanese style water tap filter systems [1] get popular in the west? These things are incredibly convenient and cheap - your tap water now tastes good
by m_mueller 9y ago
Why don't Japanese style water tap filter systems [1] get popular in the west? These things are incredibly convenient and cheap - your tap water now tastes good, the upfront cost is ~35 USD and the running cost is at most around 3 USD per month. Hell of a lot cheaper and easier than buying water bottles and transporting them around.
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- Symbiote 9y agoI've seen these around Europe. Also, a larger version where the filter is under the counter. America != The west.
- m_mueller 9y agoWell I'm from Europe and I haven't. Where have you seen them more specifically? In Switzerland they don't make a lot of sense (good tasting water, but very calcium-heavy which these AFAIK don't help against). But e.g. in France and Italy I think it would make a lot of sense, the water there is AFAIK safe but tastes awful to me.
- richardknop 9y agoI have seen these things occasionally in Europe. It's not a strictly Japanese thing.
- Symbiote 9y agoScandinavia and Britain. It's not something I'd buy -- the water here has an extremely high mineral content, but isn't that what people pay extra for when it's put in a glass bottle? -- but there are some available on Amazon.co.uk if you search "filter tap".