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Re:textfiles.com by earthboundkid on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:41PM (#22999196)
Whereabouts do you live? I've visited places where I found tap water undrinkable (Pennsylvania, Florida), but never lived in such a place.
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Re:textfiles.com by kalleboo on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:17PM (#23000144)
Japan
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Re:textfiles.com by earthboundkid on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:51PM (#23002487)
I liked the water in Toyama, but they had a PR campaign to brand it as “oishii mizu” so people would forget about the cadmium poisoning in the Showa years. The PR campaign worked on me. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itai-itai_disease
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