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People often act irrationally... Here in Vienna the tap water basically comes straight from mountain springs in the Alps. Still, almost everyone here buys bott
by gst 15y ago
People often act irrationally...
Here in Vienna the tap water basically comes straight from mountain springs in the Alps. Still, almost everyone here buys bottled water, instead of directly drinking the tap water which has the same quality, if not even better.
- binarymax 15y agoWhen I was in Vienna in 2007 I spoke to a random entrepreneur during lunch and he noticed I was drinking bottled water. It turned out he was in the business of bottling water and said the tap water in Vienna was what he was trying to bottle, and the joke was on me that I was drinking water bottled elsewhere when the free tap water was a much higher quality.
- scott_s 15y agoI don't know if Vienna is the same, but when I was in Italy and Spain, I had to explicitly ask for tap water. If I just asked for water, they would bring me bottled water of some kind.
- viraptor 15y agoWhy joke? I happily buy bottled water which tastes better than the local tap one. It really depends on what you look for. I wouldn't mind if it's filtered sewage, as long as it tastes good. The "quality", which can be defined in many ways is hard to judge... Does it matter that much though? At least we can judge the taste ourselves.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoIt matters because tap water doesn't generate plastic waste (created by wasting oil).
- ugh 15y agoNot just Vienna but many places have great tap water, much better than what you get in a lot of bottles. There are obviously also places where the tap water is of a worse quality or just tastes awful. (The problem for many Europeans is that they like fizzy water. It’s possible to add CO2 to your own tap water but bottled fizzy water is just do damn convenient compared to that. I would never buy plain water in bottles but I’m too lazy to not buy fizzy bottled water.)