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When 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
by binarymax 15y ago
When 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).