• @Droggelbecher
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    64 days 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

    • lime!
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      24 days 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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        14 days 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.