That's...pretty disturbing.

I heard that in some places tap water is safe to drink, but in others it isn't. Also, why isn't the northern U.S. colored?

I think that this is talking about tap water in urban areas of developed countries where tap water codes would be held.

Quite surprising statistics

The latter quote is more accurate, even in the developed, urban parts of the US.

When I lived in Miami, after every hurricane, there was a warning on the news not to drink tap water, due to contamination. Howso? Power outages combined with flooding (either rain or storm surge) can cause untreated water to backwash into the supply lines. Hence, during hurricane season, bottled water was the safer water source.

That said, if you water supply doesn't have that kind of contamination problem, the (huge) graphic has a point.

That is one big picture.

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it is interesting how people can be made to think they need something they do not. Personally I prefer tea but I still manage to drink far more bottled than tap.

I always wondered where it came from. Now I know.

I think the picture means hell. Purgatory is on a mountain on the other side of the world, duh.

Well, it's a good thing I bottle my own water from tap then.

Hopefully you're using a proper reusable bottle, I think that bottles for bottled water are kinda bad for reuse.

Drinking the tears of bloggers intrigues me...

I do not drink the tap water in my area without additional filtering. It has a smell and a flavor. Water should have neither. I shamefully admit that I do, rather regularly, drink bottled water. I invested in a water filter a few months ago but my child broke it. I will invest again soon.

Hehe. Evil-ution.

Anyway, I prefer bottled water over tap, because city-water tastes nasty to me. It has this bizarre, gross after taste to it. I've grown up on well-water, and much prefer it or bottled to water that's from the city sources.

I prefer filtered tap water to bottled water. I honestly don't like the plastic taste that gets into bottled water. It's a bit harder to get filtered living on a college campus without a sink in my room, but I still fill a filtered pitcher whenever possible.

Georgia Tech had greenish brown water on occasion. There was a photo of this somewhere but I seem to have misplaced it.

I live in India. In India, tap water is bad. Thus, I drink from a bottle.

You tell the truth in the us?

Yes. I can't trust Indians.