<story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarnowski</author><text>Living in Germany&amp;#x2F;Berlin and can confirm. Our tap water is excellent and is way cleaner than all bottled water you can buy. Keep in mind, bottled water is also kept around way longer and has the time to „breed“. In tests, the tap water is consistently less contaminated. I recommend everyone to just stick to it.&lt;p&gt;As an anecdote: you can let your tap water be tested for free if you have a newborn to ensure and confirm that you can use it for baby food without doubt.</text></item><item><author>afiori</author><text>In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water.&lt;p&gt;The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water.&lt;p&gt;Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.</text></item><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.&lt;p&gt;Worse... it&amp;#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geggam</author><text>Having spent 5 months in Germany recently I can say without a doubt the entire food chain in that nation is something I miss. Tap water tasted great and the food was super high quality.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarnowski</author><text>Living in Germany&amp;#x2F;Berlin and can confirm. Our tap water is excellent and is way cleaner than all bottled water you can buy. Keep in mind, bottled water is also kept around way longer and has the time to „breed“. In tests, the tap water is consistently less contaminated. I recommend everyone to just stick to it.&lt;p&gt;As an anecdote: you can let your tap water be tested for free if you have a newborn to ensure and confirm that you can use it for baby food without doubt.</text></item><item><author>afiori</author><text>In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water.&lt;p&gt;The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water.&lt;p&gt;Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.</text></item><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.&lt;p&gt;Worse... it&amp;#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwaps</author><text>Berlin, of course, has a website in English language with all the information regarding tap water:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bwb.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bwb.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;index.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>