• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The tap water in my house growing up in Eagle River, AK. The public water was filtered glacier water and still retained some of the minerals from that. It made the water a bit hard, but it tasted great.

    IIRC at some point it was also rated as the best tap water in the country by some magazine or something.

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    10 hours ago

    Canberra, Australia before the 2017 bushfires. The rainwater was filtered through pine needles as there were pine plantations around our dams

    The pines are gone now and the water is good, but no longer great

    Though it now is excellent for making beer

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      9 hours ago

      The water in Melbourne is some of the best water I’ve had, next to Tasmanian bore water. Adelaide hands down has the worst though.

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        8 hours ago

        Adelaide water does make good beer though

        Their drinking water has gotten better, it’s now “ok”

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    15 hours ago

    I had well water growing up in East Texas. I have no idea what combinations of minerals caused it, but it was pretty good and plenty cold enough straight out of the faucet.

    Houston water is awful.

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    18 hours ago

    Wales, UK… I call it frog water because the header tank up the hill got blocked by dead frogs in the pipe. Tank fault we drained it fixed it. Big old tank been there for many years. The water is from a spring. Unfortunate that header tanks are needed up the hill to keep a constant supply. Good old frog water though!

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    18 hours ago

    My grandmother’s bathroom growing up. It was honestly probably lead, because it was noticeably sweet, but it was the only water I actively enjoyed as a kid.

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      9 hours ago

      probably lead, because it was noticeably sweet

      Oh dear. That’s accurate, though. Lead (purportedly) tastes way better than it has any right to.

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      19 hours ago

      It tastes so good and refreshing compared to other places, I don’t know what the magic is.

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    21 hours ago

    Amsterdam. It didn’t taste like anything.

    I’m from Melbourne and locals like to claim we’ve got the best water in the world but it tastes bleach-ey to me… because they put chlorine in it for hygiene reasons. It’s not a health risk at the levels used, stomach acid neutralises it. After I got back from staying with family in NL I found the local Melbourne water disgusting and it took a while to be able to get used to it again.

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    19 hours ago

    Hot Springs, Arkansas. They had giant public water fountains available on the streets for free to get water straight from the springs. Also some very cool bathhouses from the 1900s.