RE: drinkable water, what sort of information do you have that Chengdu tap water isn’t safe to drink?
I recall during the earthquake, a German? company sent a massive amount of water purifiers and filters with the presumption the water would be highly contaminated/undrinkable – only to test it and find it was not only drinkable but better than you’d expect in many modern countries, and the purifiers they sent weren’t necessary at all. I was curious to find some information either way re: whether it’s safe or not so hit google. I can’t find anything other than a message board posting or presumptuous opinion on “Well since the water is undrinkable” – to support that it’s undrinkable, while any measured or tested material indicates Chengdu’s water is actually perfectly fine.
So, I’m curious, am I missing some recent studies indicating the local water supply is bad? Or is it just more incorrect presumptions being spread as if they were facts 😀
RE: “As Ray mentions, potable drinking water coming out of the tap in a major Chinese city is more or less a distant fantasy, that I doubt many people think is likely within the coming decades or even possible.” — well, the only real information I can see is that recently tested, 83% of urban areas across all of China have drinkable tap water that meets modern standard tests.