I beg your pardon? Water warnings in the 70s? I guess someone forgot to tell us
Europeans that our water was not safe, because most of the continent was
happily drinking tap water already when I was a child in the 1960s--and in
backwards, Communist Poland to boot.
I can assure you 100% that if anyone in France warned you against drinking tap
water in 1980s, their only motive would have been to get a naive American to
support Perrier etc. by wasting money on bottled water.
Cheers,
Nathan (I generally prefer Belgian beer to just about any other liquid, but
that's another story)
Nathan Wajsman
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On Sep 13, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Even if wine is part of the healthy meditarenean diet, water is
>> completely safe, at least in Rome.
>
> The first time I went to Europe, right before 1980, the water warnings
> (especially in France) were widespread. In the '90s when I was over in
> Europe several times a year, the warnings were no more, but some
> places I went you just knew not to try your luck. Rome was still one
> of those places. Somewhere along the way, European countries were no
> longer third-world countries when it came to water quality. Not sure
> when that happened, but I'm sure it was a whole lot sooner than we
> prideful Americans thought.
>
> Canadian water? Not nearly as bad as their beer. ;)
>
> I got an interesting education one day, when observing a
> road-construction project in Italy. In the town I was staying, outside
> of Rome, the city had a rough look to it. Actually, it reminded me a
> lot of a spaghetti western. I half-expected to hear the flute and the
> rattle-snake shaker sound and seeing a tumbleweed blowing past.
> (actually, a tumbleweed did blow past). Above ground it was rough, old
> and most things dated back earlier than the American Revolution. There
> was a big hole in the ground at an intersection in the road. It was
> simply incredible the number of pipes, conduits, power runs and other
> things under there. There were dozens of fiber-optic ducts running
> every which way. It's weird, but I became much less critical of what I
> could see above ground. For the past dozen years, I've worked in the
> telecom industry and I have even more of an appreciation for what's
> under our feet. Even in rural Iowa, where the media likes to pretend
> that everybody is a hayseed hick (Iowa State University graduate) and
> just cling to our guns and religion, we have an incredible amount of
> technology and advancement (University of Iowa). Just like that
> tumbleweed town in Italy, which I had misjudged, in Iowa we actually
> are as well, if not better, connected than most any location in the
> big modern cities. The only real difference is the length of the
> cables, not the size of the cables.
>
> AG
>
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