"Unfriendly" countries

Second map is wrong. You can drink the tap water in any country at least once

Well, any country that has tap water.

Ah yes America. The land with safe leaded tap water.

It's more fuel efficient 😤

Why is America highlighted?

Good question for both maps
Yet another instance of "America is actually 50 countries in a trench coat". Some places here have really, really good quality tap water that tastes ok even without a drinking water filter on the faucet, and other places... well, everyone knows Flint, MI...
- As opposed to other countries, where it's the same through the whole country

The map of the US should be a bit more finely-grained to show the MAGA states as Russophiles.

Yeah, like all the Russophiles in Flint, Michigan.
Keep in mind that while they may consider Russia friendly, Russia still considers them unfriendly.
- You misspelled ‘useful idiots’.
Russophile is fine, it's Putin-dick-riding that I take issue with.

South Africa has some really good tap water, can confirm I am drinking it.

We should enjoy it while we can, it seems that even that is coming to an end.
https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/water-and-sanitation-releases-2023-full-blue-drop-report-05-dec-2023

What's the idea behind this meme? That Russia is against tap-water or that Russia is a third-world shithole?

Because if the later, it reeks of western-white-colonialist supremacy. Blue countries have better infrastructure because they are colonial powers.

Oh and I absolutely drank water in Bulgaria. This is factually false.

Meanwhile, placing the US in the "drinkable country" where this happens is laughable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

- Yeah because the first world notoriously doesn't do that /s
Love how you're getting downvoted for calling out a fascist meme, and people say this platform is "leftist". 🙄
- Liberals always have been pro-war. It's good for business.
Canada should have an asterisc for all the reserves without clean water too. Of course not many tourists going to those.
- You can see here https://sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1620925418298/1620925434679
  Note if you sort by status then less than the first 3 pages have an advisory
It’s joking that they are against tap water

Hey, I'm not unfriendly. I like Russian escorts and vodka.

I just wish their leaders would be a little more friendly to the rest of the world.

I just want to say a a resident of the US Midwest, don't drink the tap water here - it won't actually kill you but you'll wish you were dead 😝

Southern US here and it could very well kill you.
I can't say it's still like this, but when I was in Kansas City about 20 years ago, the hotel waiter poured me a glass of water and it tasted amazing and he said it was just tap water.
I'm from from between the south and midwest- and my city water utility always bragged about how its supposedly some of the best tapwater in the world.

I live in America and I wouldn't drink the tap water

You're part of the minority then. 12% in the USA never drinks tap water. 71% of us drink it at least sometimes. source
- The US has many places where drinking the water is not safe, not that people are just choosing not to. I'm sure the people of Flint would be psyched to be able to actually drink tap water again.
  The places with forever chemical contamination are also growing.
- Aren't "never drinking" and "drinking at least sometimes" collectively exhaustive? So what do the remaining 17% do with their tap water?
  Edit: I can't count this late
- The tap water in NYC is brown lol
  I know it's probably safe to drink through some technicality, but it's definitely off-putting. We can't even use it in our humidifier without filtering it
- A lot of cities in California have problems with hexavalent chromium and arsenic in tap water and nothing is really done about it. It’s naturally occurring, abundant, and really hard to remove from the water.
  https://www.modbee.com/news/article33667080.html
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- Flint, Michigan has left the chat

You better wipe America off that list lol. Flint Michigan have water yet?

Yes, they do.
The water mains in question were replaced, and 95% of lead service lines have been replaced.
- How long did that take?
- In any case, you still shouldn't drink the water in Cancer Alley or East Palestine

All of South Africas tap water is safe to drink. And Russia considers the SA government their ally.

You know that people can google 'south Africa tap water', right?
First result from southafrica.net: 'tap water is safe to drink in urban areas'. So even the official sources are claiming only urban areas to be safe. If you scroll down to the 2nd result it says '47 % of municipal tap water is now classified as non-revenue water' and '46 % of the drinking water systems are safe to drink'
- Pretty sure it's like that in a lot of places.. But, even when living 200km from civilization, in a tiny town in the desert, the water from the tap was safe to drink. In the 34 years I lived there I never once got sick from drinking water from the tap.

Imagine thinking US tapwater (where some places are known to have a dizzying amount of contaminants) is more drinkable than Brazilian tapwater, which is actually clean.

Depending where in Brazil you are talking about. In Rio de Janeiro for example even public authorities recommend you to not drink tap water.
- Well, Rio is kind if a hellhole. They suffer from excessive unregulated housing, with too many people living in favelas and accessing utilities from illegal taps – uncontrollable circumstances –, plus their political class is actual scum.
Shut up and let me guzzle my PFAS and lead juice!!

Except for Flint, Michigan and Jacksonville, Mississippi.

And in my experience every single hotel where the water is basically diluted chlorine bleach.
- Hotels are eldritch abominations summoned into the materium to test the limits of the human psyche.

Ironically, the second map is pretty wrong. You're more likely to be able to drink the tap water in the Balkans for example than in some Western countries.

Looks like Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia and get a pass on being unfriendly countries, presumably because they aren't in NATO (despite B&H being an aspiring member).

However Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria, also not in NATO, are still unfriendlies.

Poor Hungary is still counted as unfriendly as they actively run interference on Moscow's behalf.

I don't think we're un-friendly, I think Russia's just in a bad place right now and need to take a hard look at themselves and maybe consider whether their recent behaviour matches their values.

And no, they can't crash on our sofa.

Why do you assume mainland tap water and tap water on a tiny island far out in the ocean have the same quality? In spain mainland tap water is generally considered drinkable.
- Because the tap water is subject to the same legal framework, that's why you assume it has the same quality standards.
- I drank tap water all over mainland Spain without issue and my stomach is weak for this sort of thing.
Well, Tenerife is Spain, but it's 1700km away, so it's not the best example.
Still, it depends on where in Spain we talk about, you can see in This map . It's not that the water is bad, it's that in many places it has minerals like calcium that gives them undesired taste, but its perfectly safe. I live in one of those black places and most people buy bottled water. I use a Britta.

To be fair, I get the sense that in some cases, the west (and our outsourcing of pollution and trash) might contribute to the inability to drink tap water. Not that it makes it right to hate in the West, but I'm not about to blame ALL those countries for crappy tap water.

I thought Chile had drinkable table water. Last time someone posted a UN map, iirc Chile was the sole county in South America highlighted.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2.-Interactive-Water-Pollution-Risk-of-dying-from-unsafe-water.png?w=770&resize=770%2C770&quality=80
A very different map. I've never had issues in Argentina.

You can't or at least should not drink most of the tap water from the US.

US tap watered is monitored closely and the results for basically every locality are available online. In the few places where you can't drink it, they make a really big deal about letting you know.
- Everywhere in the US where I lived, you were not supposed to drink unfiltered tap water.
Unfortunately that would be the impression you'd get from the news. In reality, tap water is so safe in almost all of the US- that when its not in a city than it is major news.
- Everywhere in the US where I lived, you were not supposed to drink unfiltered tap water.

This is meme is just western colonialist supremacy bulshit

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I trust the tap water in Malaysia better than I do the tap water in the US.

(Speaking from personal experience.)

I always drank tap water during my stay in Medellín, Colombia and was perfectly fine.

- Besides Flint and all the fracking in California, I think for the majority of people, tap water is ok.
- This summarizes it very well thanks.

Doubt ~~cats~~ cast

Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70 percent of you is water?

Mandrake: Good Lord!

Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)

Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?

Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)

Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?

Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.

Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?

Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.

Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Yeah... Canada really shouldn't be on that tap water map; A lot of our northern communities cannot.

Always the same map

I wouldn’t drink the tap water in the UK.

Sure if you're unlucky enough to not be in Scotland maybe
Depends on where you are, the water in Wales is pretty good.

Take Italy off the list right now

In Viet Nam's rural area WE HAVE TAP WATER!!!

Dirty political propaganda.