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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Also the US is not a third world nation, it's a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that's not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it's allies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It tasted better in Canberra before the 2013 bushfire, back when it was filtered through pine needles, before they removed all the pine farms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.

Bummer to hear that's changed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Update: It was actually 2003, I was in Theodore at the time. It's recovered mostly from that bushfire as well as the 2019/2020, when I was visiting while it was happening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bushfire_season

https://www.icrc.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/1247030/CRES_Submission_2.pdf

Search term from the immediately above link is, 'why was Canberra's water so good before the bushfire?'

I have been living in Melbourne since 2017. Canberra's water still just pips it (Silvan Reservoir area), thanks to the Corin and Bendora dams. Googong water is still terrible (it has a slightly bitter taste, probably because of chlorination treatment) when water from it is required, but they haven't had to use that for a while. It's night and day to me, at least when Googong water is involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Indeed. You can tell if it's straight out of Googong Dam also.