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    Anytime I see memes like that, I am thankful I live in a country where I can just drink tap water.

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        I thought their whole point was that they filter the water because you can’t drink the tap water in the US?

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          This is gonna blow your mind but even a lot of bottled water just comes out of plain-ass municipal water systems.

          No, these machines are directly connected to the tap. Many will cool the water down but I don’t think many of them do filtering.

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          The fuck? No…?

          The US is clownish and backwards in a lot of ways but this is not one of them.

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              For conveniently drinking out of them and filling water bottles in public buildings like schools and hospitals. They’re really common in NA, what part of the world are you in?

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              By googling it, it seems these will filter out some forever chemicals that are a problem pretty much everywhere. It will also cool the water, which might be beneficial if your tap water is a bit on the warmer side (which mine is and it’s infuriating, I want to drink near-freezing water)

              Note: I’m not American and don’t have one of these, just googling.