In German, the tap water is known to be very hard, so essentially no one drinks tap water.
Our local tap water (in a town close to Munich) is roughly as soft as tap water can be, and I drink nothing else.
But if you’ve found statistics on how countries differ in how much tap water their citizens drink, I’d be interested to see them. Unfortunately, searching for “tap water consumption” includes all the other uses like showering etc.
Hm, this was mostly anecdotal from speaking to German friends (including people in Munich!), so I guess I was speaking too generally. Certainly more people drink bottled water in Germany at restaurants compared to many other countries, but I see that I was overstating the case for at home.
Restaurants in Germany don’t tend to offer free tap water, so you need to buy bottled water. I think that Germans just like the taste of sparkling mineral water, hence why they drink it so much.
Our local tap water (in a town close to Munich) is roughly as soft as tap water can be, and I drink nothing else.
But if you’ve found statistics on how countries differ in how much tap water their citizens drink, I’d be interested to see them. Unfortunately, searching for “tap water consumption” includes all the other uses like showering etc.
Hm, this was mostly anecdotal from speaking to German friends (including people in Munich!), so I guess I was speaking too generally. Certainly more people drink bottled water in Germany at restaurants compared to many other countries, but I see that I was overstating the case for at home.
Restaurants in Germany don’t tend to offer free tap water, so you need to buy bottled water. I think that Germans just like the taste of sparkling mineral water, hence why they drink it so much.
Drinking tap water in restaurants is unusual but most consumed beverages are not drunk in restaurants in Germany.
As far as there is a preference for sparkling water, people who like sparkling water often have the equipment to add sparkle to tap water.
I live in Berlin and both myself and other people I know drink a good amount of tap water. Coffee and tea are also usually made from tap water.