• steersman2484@sh.itjust.works
      201·
      8 months ago

      I guess if you have one of those fancy fridges where you can get cold water or ice. Some of them require a water connection

        • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
          33·
          8 months ago

          …in US. Pretty rare in the EU where apartments usually come with the cheapest fridge available.

          • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org
            20·
            8 months ago

            This… Also my water already comes at 10C in the summer, even less in the winter… Any colder and you’d have to bite and chew it rather than drink…

            • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
              101·
              8 months ago

              Just a glass full of crushed ice and drink your water like a true American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

              But to be serious, I’d like to have a water filter in my fridge. The water here has a bit too much calc to my taste.

              • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                You don’t buy filtered water? We usually refill our 5 gallons at one of the local water filter shops

    • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Mine is. It has an automatic life maker and filtered water dispenser. It’s pretty common in houses in America, less so in rentals.

  • essell@lemmy.world
    131·
    8 months ago

    What are you talking about?

    I get not everyone has clean running water in the world, this sounds backwards.

    How do you end up in place where you can multifunction fridges but not clean running water?

    • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      8 months ago

      Same place where you go bankrupt by calling an ambulance… And they consider themselves a developed country lol

      • Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        8 months ago

        Hey! You watch your mouth! We’ve developed lots of things including how to efficiently go bankrupt from a medical emergency!

        Having freedom means the freedom to not afford living, too.

    • HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      The city of Flint, Michigan, has entered the chat. But in more seriousness there are plenty of mostly harmless impurities in many municipal water systems such as an excess of minerals i.e. “hard water” and water filters can improve the quality of water that is considered clean enough to drink.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
      3·
      8 months ago

      Had me thinking for a moment before I realized that I’m too European to understand this.

      • essell@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, me too. If drinking water was unsuitable in my country, we’d hang the politicians from a lamppost or at the least talk about it endlessly in the newspaper until they did something.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    8 months ago

    My fridge has water hookup but no filter. It makes ice. I have never cleaned it. I put the ice in everything. At the same time, I get really weird about drinking out of fridges at vrbos as they often have a water Dispenser with a filter and zero indication of when that filter was ever changed (never is a safe bet).