• lime!
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      52 months ago

      most of europe doesn’t do at-home filtration. we don’t chlorinate the water.

      • @Droggelbecher
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        62 months ago

        Not true https://www.lenntech.com/processes/disinfection/regulation-eu/eu-water-disinfection-regulation.htm#:~:text=In Europe%2C most drinking water,primary disinfectant in most cases.

        It just tends to be a small amount of chlorine that you can’t taste when you’re used to it. I’m from the Alps and our water is actually not chlorinated and I often say I can taste the chlorine in the water but the locals will usually be like ‘what are you talking about?’ Examples where I tasted chlorine but locals didn’t are Scotland, Germany, Italy, France

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          22 months ago

          interesting. we had our own well when i grew up, and i’ve had allergic reactions to chlorinated water before so i’m super sensitive to it. i remember the water tasting off in london and eastern germany but it doesn’t at home and it didn’t when i visited austria. last time i was in north america and unprepaired for the tap water, it made me gag.

          • @Droggelbecher
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            12 months ago

            Austria is where I’m from :) yeah England and Germany aren’t too bad, I taste the chlorine, but I’ll still drink the water. I begrudgingly opted for bottled water in North America too, though. Couldn’t handle it. Even the chlorine smell during a shower was annoying, I had never noticed that anywhere else.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Zerowater removes all dissolved minerals from the water, which is actually bad for you if you only drink that.

    • @Melonpoly
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      22 months ago

      Brita is European…