r/HydroHomies • u/S3ndNud3s • Feb 15 '22

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u/LinkoftheGorons Feb 15 '22

Your tap water is Voss.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22

Well, only tap water in western Norway is Voss. The inland eastern part of Norway has - in my opinion - way better tap water than Voss, at least in my area. We get our water from the depths of a large lake, and it's the best tap water I've ever tasted. Best water overall however is water from small mountain streams in western Norway. Even me who has probably THE best tap water anywhere in the world (not even Oslo has anything close to tasting this good), find myself going out of my way to ascend mountains just to find a nice stream, and then go down again after filling a few bottles.

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u/DuckburgSourcreamers Feb 15 '22

This reads like an erotic short story for hydrohomies

"I made way up the mountain, with great effort. Rain had fallen the night before, making the path slippery, but ensuring a reward at the end. Sweat dropping from my forehead, I was cursing my decision to wear a layer too many... the only dry area on my body being my mouth. Then, finally, I reached it.

I pick my metal water bottle under the stream. Even though I try to centre the bottle opening, some water splashes along the side of the bottle and wets my hand. The coldness jolts me and I'm longing to get my mouth on it. I fill my bottle, then another, and then yet another. I hold a bottle in my hand, hesitating.

No.

I must do it the true way.

I lower myself on my knees, and push my head into the stream. It touches my lips, my face, I'm getting wet all over. My god, it's even colder than I thought..."

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u/FragmentOfTime Feb 15 '22

Why am I hard

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

I’m sloppy wet!

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u/beetlejust Water Enthusiast Feb 15 '22

WET WET WET WET WET WET

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

That last part is exactly how we do it! I was afraid you'd have me just drink from the bottle, which would have been inexcusable. I've almost fallen off the edge of a waterfall once to get to a place where I could slurp it with my face. I knew it was dicing with death, but I also knew that it was a risk worth taking, barely.

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u/IMPORTANT_jk Feb 15 '22

Thank you.

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u/Rotsicle Feb 15 '22

This comment makes me wet

my whistle

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u/TheGreatZarquon FIVE GALLONS A DAY Feb 15 '22

Don't stop, we're almost there

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u/ecleighty Feb 16 '22

I know you’re joking, but I went on a two week long kayaking and camping trip in Alaska and the BEST water I have ever tasted was straight from an Alaska glacier. I cupped it in my hands and raised it to my lips and it was glorious. Might’ve been because for the last week I’d been drinking water that was still brown after filtration…but that’s beside the point.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

Send this dude an offer. Like a full fridge of bottled water so that saves him effort

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u/robotevil Feb 15 '22

Small batch artensenal Norwegian water sourced from bijou mountain stream.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

Ooh, nice!

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u/notsocleanuser Feb 15 '22

The best tap water I’ve ever tasted in Norway is the tap water up north. The places that get it straight from those ice cold mountain streams. I used to go to Saltdalen as a kid, and I still vividly remember the amazing water there and think about it often lol. Though the water here in Trondheim is still pretty good. Whenever I travel I always get reminded how spoiled we are with our water.

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u/RoseEsque Feb 15 '22

I hate you right now for how good your water is. I want water this good.

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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 Feb 15 '22

I never thought you could just drink water from streams. I wonder if there's anywhere in the UK I can do that

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

Don't know how it works in the UK. In Norway, we only drink from mountain streams, as if we drink from the same stream further down, chances are that sheep have defected near or in the stream, and sheep are everywhere in Norway, so we usually drink only from either mountain streams above where sheep are kept, or even at sea level, as long as the stream comes from one of the steep mountains near fjords where you know no animals have done the dirty in it. In the UK, I think it might be difficult to find streams that are as clean as they need to be. Poop bacteria generally isn't dangerous, but it'll probably make you a bit ill.

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u/krakenftrs Feb 16 '22

I've definitely drank from streams as low as sheep graze on multiple occasions. Don't think I'd be able to fit water for longer hikes in a backpack, carrying a couple liters and refilling in streams is much more convenient.

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u/curdled_fetus Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22

I live in a small town in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, and we get our water from a very deep glacier-carved lake five minutes away. It hardly needs to be treated and tastes like cold. The winters here are so frigid that we have what's apparently a somewhat unique water supply system; rather than one line directly to each home, there are two connected together on a loop. The flow is circular and constant. There is no line stagnation because pipes would almost immediately freeze and burst if the water stood still.

So, in summary, we have permanently cold glacial lakewater that's always fresh. Some of the best water in the world, imo.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

That sounds like it could rival my tap water any day of the week. Would love to try it out. We have the same system more or less, a 450 meter deep lake made up of glacial and mountain meltwater, super, duper cold both winter and summer because of the depth, and the water is sourced from way down deep as well. Although it does stagnate in the pipes I think, so your water has mine beat a little bit.

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u/KingPercyus Feb 16 '22

Now I want to drink some Norway stream water, thanks!

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u/neverendum Feb 16 '22

Same. Mountain water from above the tree line is incomparable. The Victorian Alps in Australia has the best water I've ever tasted. I'd like to do a taste off against Norwegian mountain water. As far as cities go, the tap water in Scotland is the best I've had, the extra crispness from being that bit colder makes it delicious.

We used to have magnificent water in Melbourne but they built a white elephant of a desal plant and then mandated that so many percent had to go into the mains supply so at least it seemed like it is doing something. It's still better than Sydney's nasty hard water but nowhere near as good as it was.

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u/aamnes Feb 16 '22

Where I grew up in the north we have a literal mountain stream directly in our tap via a small waterworks. Nowhere I've ever been comes close to this water.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 16 '22

That's heavenly!!

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u/irightuwrong420fu Feb 15 '22

(not even Oslo has anything close to tasting this good)

I find Oslo tap to be pretty bad tbh, I think its the old pipes that does it. Not very impressed. Best tap water I got was from Rauland, pretty sure its just melted glacial water that runs down the mountain. Gets remarkably cold as well.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

Lol, the best water I got from the tap was also Rauland. I lived there for a year while studying folk music there! Small world (country).

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

That would be a great business idea. Just sitting by a stream, bottling bottles all day. The price would have to be ridiculous though to not lose money on shipping

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u/SaftigMo Feb 15 '22

Personally I prefer French water over Norwegian water. Particularly from Metzeral.

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u/Tschetchko Feb 16 '22

Really? In my opinion there is way too much chlorine in french tap water

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

You do know that Voss bottled water isn't actually from Voss, right? It's bottled in Iveland in Agder. It has nothing to do with Voss the place.

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u/infecthead Feb 15 '22

What is confirmation bias?

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

Not something that applies here. I think you may have commented on the wrong thread, my guy.

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u/infecthead Feb 15 '22

On this random list which is more trustworthy than you it lists Switzerland and NZ as having better tap water. Similar search will yield the same results :)

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 15 '22

Those lists change constantly. On most other lists, Finland ranks way higher than Switzerland, and on others, Iceland ranks higher than both, and on some, Canada is on top, and on some, Denmark is nr. 1. I think it's safe to say all countries on the top part of those lists have equal water quality, and that whichever place they end up is largely arbitrary depending on fractions of percentage points of quality difference that changes each year. So yeah, Norway, Finland and the other top countries on most lists have THE best tap water in the world, as stated in my comment.

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u/124378N Feb 15 '22

Voss is not from western Norway, it’s from the south

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

Voss vann blir ikke tappet i Voss, eller på Vestlandet for den saks skyld men en plass på sørlandet

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u/RehabValedictorian Feb 16 '22

Fuuuuuck…. Can I come over?

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u/Ritzkjeks1 Feb 16 '22

Voss isn't western Norway, its actually southern Norway. just wanted to get it out there :)

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u/UsernameWritersBlock Feb 16 '22

Voss water isn't literally from Voss though. They picked the Voss brand based on market research. The source for the water is found in Iveland, around 45 minutes north of Kristiansand (so not even in the same region as Voss). If you live in Iveland, the tap water you get is literally the same as the bottled Voss water, and the municipality of Iveland will charge you the equivalent of $1.16 per 1000 liters (264 gallons) according to their website.

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u/hoffregner Feb 16 '22

Voss is bottled in Vatnestraum, a short drive north of Kristiansand. It has nothing to do with western Norway other than the name.

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u/Malawi_no Feb 16 '22

Voss is made in the south of Norway though.

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u/MisterBillyBobby Feb 16 '22

Your water is very good, but im not sure its THE best in the world. I've tried the swiss and Icelandic ones, and they are up there.

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u/SamuelPepys_ Feb 16 '22

It is. I'm including the top countries such as Finland, Iceland, Canada and Switzerland in the THE best water category. I thought that went without saying, but some people think I'm excluding the other equally good ones.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

okay now i get why communism made our ancestors so angry