ACCESS TO HEALTHY WATER

This topic interest me because I have often wonder why we as Americans waste our hard earn money on buying drinking water and on fancy gadgets such as BRITTA and PUR to attached to our faucets to purify the water we drink. However, we then turn right around and bathe ,brush our teeth and cook with the same water we “purify” to drink. It seems like if a person is going to purify the water they drink, they should also purify the water In the bathroom and shower. When we go out to eat we automatically assume that the water we ordered to drink has been purified, but do we really know ,where that water came from before ending up on our table? I learned that when you go out to eat in Germany, your waiter will not bring a complimentary glass of water, in fact although their tap water is perfectly safe to drink, they d o not drink it ,they drink bottle water with carbonation or bottle water with non carbonation. But the German word for tap water is Leitungswasser which literally means plumbing water. Now if you offered someone plumbing water, well that’s slightly better than sewer water but it isn’t something you would do. One of the biggest cultural mistakes  you can make is offering a German  a glass of ordinary tap water.
            As a future educator of Adults in the Early Childhood field, I feel like the knowledge of water I learned will definitely make me more aware of the water I will drink in  the workplace. I will relate this information to my students and make them aware of the awareness of drinking water in their home as well as exposing their children to the impurities in tap water. All this makes me feel rather good about not being such an avid water drinker.

Reference:
http://learn-german.language101.com/about-germany/why-germans-dont-drink-tap-water/