@49: From the comment you erroneously posted in another thread:
I can't quite imagine what you all are talking about about a taste or smell of chlorine. You make it sound as if it was like a swimming pool or something.
That is precisely what the tap water served to me in the US reminded me of.
To us it's not noticeable at all,
Well,to us it is
and it seems a small price to pay for a lifetime of healthier teeth
I don't quite understand the link between chlorine and healthy teeth
and fewer water-borne illnesses, and the convenience of being able to drink tap water both at home and in restaurants, without wasting huge resources on bottling and reselling something that should be easily available to all.
Tap water in Germany offers the same advantages, it just doesn't taste disgusting. Which chlorinated tap water unfortunately does, at least to me.
I can remember strange-tasting local water, like the brownish, sulfur-smelling well water at my grandparents' house in the country, but modern city water systems are nothing like that.
I don't know if anyone in Germany has water coming out of their taps that comes from a well in their garden and not from the water company, but I doubt it, even in the most rural of Areas. I don't even know if it would be legal. Our tap water is clean and safe everywhere - and if a contamination occurs somewhere (as in #52) it is found out very quickly thanks to frequent tests and removed as soon as possible.