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According to the Gini, Russia has more income equality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
by nether 13y ago
According to the Gini, Russia has more income equality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
I can't imagine it being true though given this story, my experiences traveling across Siberia, and those of my roommate who is from Russia (he's been in the US for six years). You pretty much have to be a one percenter to get potable tap water (every restaurant charges for water because it's always bottled, never tap).
- guard-of-terra 13y agoMost people here don't buy bottled water because they don't have a car and/or don't care about water quality and/or don't think bottled water is superior. People use filters to filter tap water or just boil it. Serving tap water in restaurants doesn't sound right to me. First of all, pipes might be rusty.
- kutakbash 13y agoSo… bottled water is superior? I thought it's essentially filtered tap water…
- PeterisP 13y agoIt all depends on the quality of tap water - there are locations where tap water is pretty much the same as bottled water, and there are locations where tap water isn't considered drinkable unless boiled beforehand.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoBottled water quality is predictable, your next restaurant's plumbing condition is not. I don't like branded bottled water but at least you know what you get.
- kutakbash 13y agoYou are not supposed to drink water off the tap (well, actually you can, if you don't value your kidneys in the long run), you are supposed to filter it through $40 device or boil it, then you can drink it. That's something that everyone does, I don't see this problem, like, at all. I dunno why restaurants charge for water, maybe because they can.
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