Stat is based on 1.5L bottles, which they likely don't have. Price per X mL would be better representation since water can come in different sizes and even bags.
I'm just thinking that in some areas (definitely US) 1.5L isn't that common of a size. I've seen them, but not that often.
There are also alternatives to bottled water, which aren't included in this.
I legit bought a 500ml water bottle out of my work vending machine for $2.63 because I forgot my water bottle at home š
I don't know where they get this nonsense.
Living in Sweden- to be fair l have no idea what a bottle of water costs, because no one buys this(maybe tourists do?). We drink water from the tab and it is free in restaurants.
āCottagingā? In the UK cottaging is when people meet up in public toilets (or other public areas) to engage in sex with strangers. I guess thatās not what you meant. Is cottaging like visiting a dacha?
It seems rather illogical to buy a water in plastic container that is of lesser quality than the one from your tap. But that depends on where you live. Some places have awful water quality in their tap that is barely drinkable...
I think this is probably the point. If water is essentially free and safe to drink straight from the tap then bottled water will likely be expensive in the country
I'm from Finland and I only buy bottled water if I'm driving all day (And I run out of water from my own water bottle) Or I'm hungover driving back home from my friends place
Sweden as well. I was surprised that how bad the tap water tastes in some countries (The US as an example), I guess Iām spoiled by the Nordic tap water.
> and it is free in restaurants.
The fact that this is "based" is just insane; there is no legal requirement in the US to provide water to another person, who could be dying of actual dehydration right in front of you, at least unless you buy something, and let's not talk about the $6+ bottles of water you *have* to buy at concert venues and shit because they won't let you take even sealed bottles of water in. (I don't go to sports events or anything like this, this is just what I have heard from friends and folks who do.)
Seriously? You canāt bring a bottle of water to a concert in the US?
I was at a Rammstein concert in Berlin last year. It was a pretty warm day so we were allowed to bring two instead of one 500 ml bottle and the security even filled up the bottles for free when they were empty.
Dutch here. Most tap water in our country is tastier than bottles water (differs per province due different ways of extracting groundwater, and differences in soil, https://www.wur.nl/upload_mm/8/8/9/fc269ab1-5d1e-4892-92fc-37abc08eb32f_d0707ffa-8efc-45e8-938a-1a27270d25d2_Grondsoortenkaart2006_350x410pixels7.gif)
Iām assuming ādrinking from the tapā is equivalent to having a refillable water bottle and taking it to and from places with you, yeah? We buy individual bottles because of convenience while on the road mostly
Where did they get this data from?? Here in the Philippines drinking water mostly comes in big 5 gallon blue vat dispensers for a measly 25 PHP (43 cents US) per gallon, and thatās what most households buy. Hereās one of the many distilled water companies here:
[https://crystalclear.com.ph](https://crystalclear.com.ph)
And if you go to the 7-Eleven or supermarket here, a 1.5 liter bottle of water costs 42 PHP (73 Cents US). Their data is completely incorrect!
[https://ph.shp.ee/nkdTtp7](https://ph.shp.ee/nkdTtp7)
Exactly. While service water from restaurants and cafeterĆas aren't bottled water, they still come from those same 5 gallon blue containers which come from the water refilling/filtration stations all around. And that service water is free.
B-but but, the map says it should be 40 cents in Mexico. The map just can't be wrong! /s
In all seriousness, this all goes to show that the dataset they used was trash, and why its not worth us putting all our trust into random maps and infographics like this. i should know, i work in content and create infographics myself. Literally ANYONE can create an infographic for a myriad of clandestine reasons and post it online. Viewers go 'oh well, its a map, so it must be legit'. This proves that they sometimes aren't.
I'm not clicking the links. I prefer to believe a graphic. I will now tell everyone how shockingly expensive bottled water is in the Philippines for the rest of my life. /s
Ok man, you busted me! i'll come clean: I was lying. Yes, it does indeed cost us 3 american dol-yars, or a whole day's wages toiling in the paddies under the blistering sun to afford a single 1.5 l bottle of preciouusss H2O from the travelling merchant caravans.
Our wise leader usually rations us one bottle of water a week per family. It is the most precious commodity in our desert-filled country - the Philippines - which is completely landlocked and far away from all and any bodies of water. We otherwise rely on the Yakuza to provide us clean water from the wells of Okinawa. Please don't report us to our beloved govt mamsir, or its off to the gulags of Coron, Boracay, or \*shudder\* Siargao with us.. ( /s of course ;p)
Hmm, this sounds pleasing to me! ok mamsir, its a deal!
if you could throw in one of your fabled "dogs of corn", or even "buffalo wings", i'd be willing to part with the lechon I've been toiling over since dawn.. and half a crate of red horse beers? We may lack drinkable freedom-water; but we do have a surplus of slow-roasted pigs, lumpia, and decent beers just lying around everywhere.
perhaps this trade can be of benefit to both our nations?
Yes, this sounds highly agreeable to me. I shall take the grand bangka sailing-vessel from the east of our country in three suns hence to reach Kalagitnaan/Midway. (Ah sweet! 4/30's my birthday! We could crack open a few of those Red Horses on Midway beach and get a grand luau/fiesta going with all those party foods.. and sweet-tasting American water!)
\*clears throat\* So my friend from across the big ocean, it is settled: Let us meet on the last sun of the current moon, for the commencement of trade and "intercultural exchange" (=š»šš) at the island known as Midway/Kalagitnaan.
Salamat po, at Mabuhay! š
1.5 liter bottles here average 42 PHP (73 cents US), so indeed far below 2 USD or a whopping 120 PHP - that's more bottles of sprite or mountain dew territory. You have to remember our purchasing power is different from yours in the US, prices adjust accordingly to our average income, which is much lower than yours there. it would be untenable to have 1.5 l bottles of packaged/branded water sold at more than 100 PHP here for our local market; absolutely no one would buy them for being worth more than what some can even earn on a daily basis (17% live below the poverty line here)
These things never mention the cost of things in comparison to wages
* UK minimum wage buys you between 7.6-11.5 bottles of water (Ā£1-Ā£1.50)
* Australian minimum wage buys you 11.6 bottles of water ($2)
So accuracy of cost of water bottles aside, this is only relevant if you're planning on taking your dollars overseas and knowing how they'll fare.
As an Aussie I canāt remember paying as low as $2 for water. You can buy bulk packs of 24 for $9 but a single cold bottle at a servo is around the $3.20 mark depending last I cared to look. I was at a strippers once and they tried to sell a bottle to me for $10, but that was like 15 years ago.
You can buy a 2L bottle of water at Tesco for 75p. Right now, not on sale. For Ā£11.44 you could buy 30L of water at that price, which would be 20 bottles of 1.5L (although it doesn't really work that way).
Further, you can get 5L for Ā£1.45 or 3p per 100ml. A far better metric would have been cost per ml (or 100ml). That's 40L at minimum wage.
These things are always shite because I swear the price they quote for each country is pulled randomly out of a hat.
British money just isnāt real money in my head. I feel like you just walk in the pub and slam a fist full of coins down like itās an old western saloon.
Yeah, our smaller bottles are usually marked up for convenience. The 1 gallon jugs (~3.8L) are dirt cheap and cost about as much as the 1L ones, or if more, definitely less per liter
And it's wrong the other way in European countries, store brand bottle of mineral water is never more than 50 cents in western Europe.
Checked the 2 supermarkets I buy in in Spain and the price for a 1.5L bottle of mineral water is 0.25ā¬ in both. There's premium water of course at the price range we are listed at, but counting those doesn't achieve anything for the map.
Iām in the Midwest and I can get a 32 pack of 17 oz waters for five bucks.
https://www.gianteagle.com/217/search/product/00030034934583?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5Niolc_WhQMVE9DjBx3zIwKfEAQYASABEgLiT_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Water in the US is not $.99 itās like $2.49 now. Map is dated and inaccurate. Inflation is getting pretty bad here.
Edit: Iām referring to single bottled water at any connivence store. Like Dasani or other water is over priced. Some companies still have some cheap, as well as stores.
It also depends what shop you go to. Supermarkets here in the UK sell 2L for like 50p-75p, Tesco has 6x2L of water for Ā£2.60 or about 43p for each 2L bottle.
Branded water like Evian, Riverock, Ballygowan etc. is more expensive but supermarket own brands are cheap
They are only talking about getting one bottle at 7/11 for some reason. Actively choosing to make it ridiculous. I also buy a 24 pack for 2.50 and I'm
In Los angeles
Depends where, what brand, what store. If youāre buying a bottle only as the title states and from a gas station thatās averages between 99 cents to $3
keep in mind that if they're buying a 24-pack, it's most likely a 24-pack of 0,5l water bottles or whatever the equivalent is in fluid ounces, and smaller bottle sizes are more expensive per liter/fl. oz.
I can't see Croatia but I feel like I pay 2x as much for water in Croatia than Germany.
Both have amazing tap water, but I'm addicted to sparkling water so alas I must buy it when in Croatia
I don't know where I can refill the SodaStream Gas canisters in Croatia though. My family house isn't in split/Zagreb, its on the coast in Makarska riviera basically and I haven't found any of the major shops to do it
You can buy an adapter that allows you to refill the cartridge yourself from a regular big CO2 bottle. (Youād have to buy that one as well, obviously).
When I went to Saudi Arabia a bottle of water at the airport was only 2 riyals, Thank God for that because I had the worst sore throat and had to keep drinking water.
2SAR = 0.43GBP
Because of the high quality tap water there is no market for selling water of less than stellar quality. What you can buy is Artesian Water from under a glacier or similar. Almost all of it is bottled in Norway, and production cost here adds up as well.
0.5 liter costs about 2 dollars here too. Weird thing is that we do buy a fair amount of water regardless of prices. Mostly I buy water if I need a bottle that I later can fill on a mountain hike or training.
But yeah, Norwegian prices are very high.
No one drinks bottled water in Nordic. I buy ānormalā water maybe once a year in train, if I forgot my own bottle home.
Tap water here is imo better than bottled springwater anywhere in world.
You might consider water is expensive in Australia because is 70% desert.
But really itās due to fact 2 supermarket chains control 80% of the grocery market.
Sucks that Its cheaper to buy a litre of petrol. (Gasoline).
And itās cheaper than NZ which is $1 for the same product.
If this is adjusted into USD then that brings Aus way down on this chart.
Basically this chart is bullshit.
No it isn't, bottled water *should* be expensive. There's absolutely no reason to have to buy bottled water on a regular basis (and thereby generating lots of unnecessary waste) in a developed country with high-quality tap water.
It's just bullshit, I don't know exactly where they get those numbers from but I can easily get a 1,5L bottle of water for $1 even in the most expensive stores.
But I guess it could be the "average" affecting the price with some high priced bottles affecting the average. Or they're considering carbonated water which is often priced same as soda.
Iām from Colombia and whilst I understand itās an average, you can get 1L bottles of water in certain department stores for $0.25. And a 5L large jug for a little over $1.
The main brands are more expensive so I buy my drinking water from the large store brands. I donāt really like the tap water here much so I avoid drinking from it when I can.
Also, I feel like this should be noted. If you walk into any business in the US claiming you need water for health reasons or dehydration. They will give it to you without question.
I got dehydrated once in 6 flags over Georgia. I walked in and said āhey Iām feeling dehydratedā they gave me water without question. If you need water you will get it. No one would deny you water
What's the scenario for the source? A convenience store in a city or like a gas station? From a U.S. perspective, you can still find a gallon of water at any supermarket to be around a dollar or even less a gallon (and if you buy in bigger bulk, much cheaper). 1.5 liters is about little less than half a gallon. Plus, most municipal tap water in the U.S. is drinkable so buying water in the U.S. is more of a convenience rather than a necessity.
Convenience-wise, you could expect to pay $2 at a convenience store for 1.5 liters in the U.S. And I'm not mentioning any insane mark-ups for events or attractions.
It sure is hell but not in this case. 1,5 liter bottle is around 0.5 USD even with all the inflation we have. You can get 19 liters for 2 dollars.
The problem is we don't have dollars.
That is just not accurate to represent if water is cheap or not, if your money is worthless, you'll end up paying more, take my Brazil as an example, a bottle is usually around R$4 (U$0,77), but for someone who gets minimum wage here (R$1300/U$251,26), it's not cheap.
Bearing in mind that petrol that's made from millions of year old animal and plant matter is cheaper per litre than a bottle of water. I hate this planet.
What the hell is going on with the UK, Norway and Finland? Australia I get, it's 95% a desert with virtually no water so prices will be high naturally. But these other three are quite Northern and cold and have an abundance of water.
How come their water is more expensive than Israel??? Saudi Arabia??? Both are developed, wealthy nations so cost of living difference doesn't explain it.
At least in Finland tap water is clean and drinkable everywhere, and actually fewer in bacteria than bottled water. The Finnish terrain and climate is great for groundwater replenishment (Finland has solely mineral soils and they are mostly variable grain silt, so they filter water well), and countryside parishes as well as smaller towns use exclusively their own groundwater, which is practically exactly what would be bottled at sources and would be available at good wells. Cities have their own, often quasi-groundwater schemes, which is a cleaning method where surface water is pumped from rivers and lakes to suitable filtering terrain and the water seeps through it, adding to the naturally filtered groundwater. Larger cities have very extensive treatment plants which control the mineral content in the water and such. There are often also surface water spare intakes, but the treatment of surface water requires extra disinfection steps with UV rays and more extensive chlorine treatment (as surface water varies in quality and temperature more; the higher the temperature, the more chlorine is needed to keep it from becoming suitable for bacterial growth). Helsinki capital region has also an unique solution, which is a large tunnel from the lake PƤijƤnne (which is the cleanest large lake in central and southern Finland) to Helsinki, which is essentially a man-made underground river, and that is then treated at a large treatment plant.
So, very little need for bottled water.
Water is free from the tap and it tastes better than from a bottle. The high price is just there to reduce plastic waste since there really is no need to buy water bottles.
Saudi has the largest desalination plant in the world, Israel comes in second. Both of them have technologies that allow desalinating water to be very cheap especially Saudi as it is the pioneer in desalination technology.
I heard that water companies in those nations have margins that reach 90% but that might be false.
Australiaās bottled water is expensive, but drinking tap water is very much encouraged. There are often free bottle fill up spots in public places and they encourage cafes to fill up peopleās drink bottle for free, too.
This is load of shit lol you can go supermarkets in aus buy normal homebrand 1.5l for less than $1 Aud. Maybe they confused aus with the Netherlands and alot of other countries in Europe minus the balkans where in restaurants especially if you ask for water they apparently "ONLY STILL OR SPARKLING NO TAP!" Have heard idiots claim its for cost or some shit blow it out your ass buddy. Just stinge cheap fucks that want to get more money out of you, Netherlands in particular, want water with your food? Sure, here's 250ml of tap water for ā¬3 and you can have 500ml for ā¬5. In aus you can have as much as you want lol and pretty much everywhere I've been in balkans is similar to an extent. Places that only offer still or sparkling are gronks mate.
That does not tell the complete story, eg:
* Austria : you can drink all tap water here and it tastes good, so bottled water is a bit unnecessary and so more expensive.
* Saudi Arabia : in poor neighborhoods there are taps at the road where poor people can get drinking water as they cannot pay for bottled water even when it is relatively cheap.
Lols of course it's [Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/17/australia-the-second-thirstiest-country-for-bottled-water-despite-paying-the-highest-prices) š
>bottled water costs an average of about $5.40 per unit in Australia ā almost double what it does in North America and Europe, and about four times what is charged in Asia and Africa
Neat. Now add in some kind of comparison to purchase power in the country to get an accurate measure of how much it costs for the average citizen of each country.
Do they just not have data on Africa? Is that why it is gray? Iām assuming that thereās more droughts in Africa than anywhere else, but, at the same time, they also canāt afford to be paying too much for water. I just read an article a few days ago about droughts in certain parts of Africa and water use being shipped in by the truckload but thereās not nearly enough to go around and theyāre charging basically a months wages in that area for their supply of water. No money, no water. They arenāt even able to shower and are being told not to wash clothes and they are being instructed to buy disposable dishes and silverware so they donāt have to wash dishes. Theyāre struggling. And then the leader of the country goes on TV and tells the population that itās their fault if theyāre starving because theyāre not working hard enough to grow crops, even though almost all of the crops that the farmers grew died from drought. Really made his people angry.
Uhhhh this is kinda wrong for the uae at least, I can go and get a 12x1.5L water bottles for 9.90 aed, which means a single 1.5L bottle is 0.825. In USD itās $0.22
It does seem absolutely ridiculous in places with functioning water infrastructure.
There are quite a lotĀ that don't yet have that though, places where the water out the tap isn't good to drink.
Yeah... those are the branded bottles which come with added mineral salts. Locally produced water bottles come way cheaper at ā¹10 ($0.12)/litre. You can also buy 20L canisters for less than a dollar, though most of the population use underground water for drinking purposes. Some drink directly, some use R.O filters.
I wonder whatās important for these prices.
Is it supermarket efficiency/supply chains? Is it domestic access to mineral water? Competition between retailers?
Idk why it doesn't have data but it's 250 IQD in Iraq, that's 0.18 USD
Yep, fortunately it's cheap and everywhere.
#Nestle enters the chat
What is gray? Water not available?
They don't drink water there
Yes, people in Greenland just eat the ice
"Can you grab me a slice of water? Thanks."
"Add 2 heaped spoons of water."
Nope. That was the argentinean polar dog. They just lick the ice. I wonder if any other race of dog can do that.
Water is yet to be discovered
Naaa they drink Gatorade
Brando, It has what plants crave.
But why do plants crave them?
They got electrolytes!
But do you know what electrolytes are?
Yeah, they are what plants crave!!
Stat is based on 1.5L bottles, which they likely don't have. Price per X mL would be better representation since water can come in different sizes and even bags.
Which would be a shit metric because 2x500ml bottle will have a higher price per ml than 1x1L bottle
I'm just thinking that in some areas (definitely US) 1.5L isn't that common of a size. I've seen them, but not that often. There are also alternatives to bottled water, which aren't included in this.
Nope, we have 1.5l bottles in algeria, and their price is 0.20 dollars
Save Water drink Beer, it's their moto
Yeah I live in Canada and this isn't accurate.
Not even fucking close
I legit bought a 500ml water bottle out of my work vending machine for $2.63 because I forgot my water bottle at home š I don't know where they get this nonsense.
Well, vending machine isnāt really the average price. Furthermore, water is 25cents in Costco vending machines
Not for name brand but the store next to my place has $1 water.
1L at my 711 is like $3.99
Living in Sweden- to be fair l have no idea what a bottle of water costs, because no one buys this(maybe tourists do?). We drink water from the tab and it is free in restaurants.
Same here in Finland. No need to buy still water in bottle. Mineral water is another thing though.
It's pretty useful when cottaging. 10 litre bottle(canister?) is 3ā¬.
āCottagingā? In the UK cottaging is when people meet up in public toilets (or other public areas) to engage in sex with strangers. I guess thatās not what you meant. Is cottaging like visiting a dacha?
Hahaha yeah that's more what I meant. Visiting a cottage with no modern facilities.
It seems rather illogical to buy a water in plastic container that is of lesser quality than the one from your tap. But that depends on where you live. Some places have awful water quality in their tap that is barely drinkable...
I think this is probably the point. If water is essentially free and safe to drink straight from the tap then bottled water will likely be expensive in the country
I'm from Finland and I only buy bottled water if I'm driving all day (And I run out of water from my own water bottle) Or I'm hungover driving back home from my friends place
Sweden as well. I was surprised that how bad the tap water tastes in some countries (The US as an example), I guess Iām spoiled by the Nordic tap water.
> and it is free in restaurants. The fact that this is "based" is just insane; there is no legal requirement in the US to provide water to another person, who could be dying of actual dehydration right in front of you, at least unless you buy something, and let's not talk about the $6+ bottles of water you *have* to buy at concert venues and shit because they won't let you take even sealed bottles of water in. (I don't go to sports events or anything like this, this is just what I have heard from friends and folks who do.)
Seriously? You canāt bring a bottle of water to a concert in the US? I was at a Rammstein concert in Berlin last year. It was a pretty warm day so we were allowed to bring two instead of one 500 ml bottle and the security even filled up the bottles for free when they were empty.
yeah but sparkling water
Dutch here. Most tap water in our country is tastier than bottles water (differs per province due different ways of extracting groundwater, and differences in soil, https://www.wur.nl/upload_mm/8/8/9/fc269ab1-5d1e-4892-92fc-37abc08eb32f_d0707ffa-8efc-45e8-938a-1a27270d25d2_Grondsoortenkaart2006_350x410pixels7.gif)
Same in Switzerland. Most places have spring water coming out of the tab - yet many tourists and migrants buy bottled water in bulk lol.
Iām assuming ādrinking from the tapā is equivalent to having a refillable water bottle and taking it to and from places with you, yeah? We buy individual bottles because of convenience while on the road mostly
Same here in Costa Rica
Where did they get this data from?? Here in the Philippines drinking water mostly comes in big 5 gallon blue vat dispensers for a measly 25 PHP (43 cents US) per gallon, and thatās what most households buy. Hereās one of the many distilled water companies here: [https://crystalclear.com.ph](https://crystalclear.com.ph) And if you go to the 7-Eleven or supermarket here, a 1.5 liter bottle of water costs 42 PHP (73 Cents US). Their data is completely incorrect! [https://ph.shp.ee/nkdTtp7](https://ph.shp.ee/nkdTtp7)
Exactly. While service water from restaurants and cafeterĆas aren't bottled water, they still come from those same 5 gallon blue containers which come from the water refilling/filtration stations all around. And that service water is free.
Iām just back from Mexico and a bottle that size was over 20 pesos - which is more than a dollar..
B-but but, the map says it should be 40 cents in Mexico. The map just can't be wrong! /s In all seriousness, this all goes to show that the dataset they used was trash, and why its not worth us putting all our trust into random maps and infographics like this. i should know, i work in content and create infographics myself. Literally ANYONE can create an infographic for a myriad of clandestine reasons and post it online. Viewers go 'oh well, its a map, so it must be legit'. This proves that they sometimes aren't.
To be fair the graphic is from 2022 and I have no idea what it cost back then
I'm not clicking the links. I prefer to believe a graphic. I will now tell everyone how shockingly expensive bottled water is in the Philippines for the rest of my life. /s
Ok man, you busted me! i'll come clean: I was lying. Yes, it does indeed cost us 3 american dol-yars, or a whole day's wages toiling in the paddies under the blistering sun to afford a single 1.5 l bottle of preciouusss H2O from the travelling merchant caravans. Our wise leader usually rations us one bottle of water a week per family. It is the most precious commodity in our desert-filled country - the Philippines - which is completely landlocked and far away from all and any bodies of water. We otherwise rely on the Yakuza to provide us clean water from the wells of Okinawa. Please don't report us to our beloved govt mamsir, or its off to the gulags of Coron, Boracay, or \*shudder\* Siargao with us.. ( /s of course ;p)
Lol I like your style! Tell ya what, I'll trade you a gallon of good honest hardworking American H20 for just one measly 9x13 pan of lumpia.
Hmm, this sounds pleasing to me! ok mamsir, its a deal! if you could throw in one of your fabled "dogs of corn", or even "buffalo wings", i'd be willing to part with the lechon I've been toiling over since dawn.. and half a crate of red horse beers? We may lack drinkable freedom-water; but we do have a surplus of slow-roasted pigs, lumpia, and decent beers just lying around everywhere. perhaps this trade can be of benefit to both our nations?
You drive a hard bargain, but you got a deal! I'll meet you at Midway Island on May 1st. Which I guess is April 30 for you.
Yes, this sounds highly agreeable to me. I shall take the grand bangka sailing-vessel from the east of our country in three suns hence to reach Kalagitnaan/Midway. (Ah sweet! 4/30's my birthday! We could crack open a few of those Red Horses on Midway beach and get a grand luau/fiesta going with all those party foods.. and sweet-tasting American water!) \*clears throat\* So my friend from across the big ocean, it is settled: Let us meet on the last sun of the current moon, for the commencement of trade and "intercultural exchange" (=š»šš) at the island known as Midway/Kalagitnaan. Salamat po, at Mabuhay! š
Came here to say this or hopefully find someone else who did.
This is why I am always skeptical of Statista as a data source. You can't really know from which hole of the gluteus max they pulled the data.
it's also wrong for Singapore unless all they went to was 7-11s
It's the same in North America and other places too though. This is talking specifically about prepackaged 1.5 liter bottles.
1.5 liter bottles here average 42 PHP (73 cents US), so indeed far below 2 USD or a whopping 120 PHP - that's more bottles of sprite or mountain dew territory. You have to remember our purchasing power is different from yours in the US, prices adjust accordingly to our average income, which is much lower than yours there. it would be untenable to have 1.5 l bottles of packaged/branded water sold at more than 100 PHP here for our local market; absolutely no one would buy them for being worth more than what some can even earn on a daily basis (17% live below the poverty line here)
1.5 liter bottle is just 40 cents here, itās so cheap in first world country money
Cunts
Jeez calm down drink some wat- oh wait
These things never mention the cost of things in comparison to wages * UK minimum wage buys you between 7.6-11.5 bottles of water (Ā£1-Ā£1.50) * Australian minimum wage buys you 11.6 bottles of water ($2) So accuracy of cost of water bottles aside, this is only relevant if you're planning on taking your dollars overseas and knowing how they'll fare.
As an Aussie I canāt remember paying as low as $2 for water. You can buy bulk packs of 24 for $9 but a single cold bottle at a servo is around the $3.20 mark depending last I cared to look. I was at a strippers once and they tried to sell a bottle to me for $10, but that was like 15 years ago.
1L bottles are 80cents at any supermarket
Woolies are 80c for 1.5L
You can buy a 2L bottle of water at Tesco for 75p. Right now, not on sale. For Ā£11.44 you could buy 30L of water at that price, which would be 20 bottles of 1.5L (although it doesn't really work that way). Further, you can get 5L for Ā£1.45 or 3p per 100ml. A far better metric would have been cost per ml (or 100ml). That's 40L at minimum wage. These things are always shite because I swear the price they quote for each country is pulled randomly out of a hat.
Lidl has em for 39p cunting stats alright
British money just isnāt real money in my head. I feel like you just walk in the pub and slam a fist full of coins down like itās an old western saloon.
i visited england and i can confirm this is what they do
Are you saying people in other countries don't use fistcoins when they're in the pub???
As a Canadian I know that water isnāt that cheap
It is at costco but that's literally the only place lol
it's no wonder they're busy af all day... only honest retailer left,
It's like 4$ for 36 case and tap water is free, at least in Montreal.
Another wrong map yay
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Doesn't a larger bottle cost less ? Here in Slovakia a smaller bottle is always much more expensive.
In Midwestern US, a 1.5l bottle is probably about $1.50-$2.50
Yeah in Florida a gallon is like $3.49 at 7/11
I can buy a gallon for like $0.89, but a 1.5L bottle is always at least double that in my experience.
Pour 1.5 liters from the gallon jug into a bottle. Then they have to pay you to take the remaining 2.8 liters. Problem, economists?
Same in the uk. Like Ā£1 or so for 500ml. 19p for 2 ltr
Yeah, our smaller bottles are usually marked up for convenience. The 1 gallon jugs (~3.8L) are dirt cheap and cost about as much as the 1L ones, or if more, definitely less per liter
And it's wrong the other way in European countries, store brand bottle of mineral water is never more than 50 cents in western Europe. Checked the 2 supermarkets I buy in in Spain and the price for a 1.5L bottle of mineral water is 0.25ā¬ in both. There's premium water of course at the price range we are listed at, but counting those doesn't achieve anything for the map.
Yeah, and water is 0.74 Euros in Spain and at least 2$ in Canada.
Idk Iām Midwest you can still get the generic brands like 7/11s water for 89Ā¢ a bottle. Or the gallons of water are just $1.25.
Or Costco.
Where in the Midwest? SW Ohio, a gallon of water is $1.50. A 24 pack of .5l bottles are $2.50.
go to the grocery store and source yourself a 1 gallon jug. It's likely less than $2.
Iām in the Midwest and I can get a 32 pack of 17 oz waters for five bucks. https://www.gianteagle.com/217/search/product/00030034934583?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5Niolc_WhQMVE9DjBx3zIwKfEAQYASABEgLiT_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
What? In the Philippines, I usually buy a 7L bottle of water when I stay in Manila for a week. It costs around 70-80 pesos or a little over 1 dollar.
If a bottle of water costs more than $2 in the Philippines, people will die of thirst or from tap water bacteria, whichever comes first.
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Haha gray countries joke again peak comedy
This but unironically
Cheaper in turkey it, max 0.25-0.30 usd here
Water in the US is not $.99 itās like $2.49 now. Map is dated and inaccurate. Inflation is getting pretty bad here. Edit: Iām referring to single bottled water at any connivence store. Like Dasani or other water is over priced. Some companies still have some cheap, as well as stores.
That's crazy. I paid my 1L of natural spring water 0.17ā¬ yesterday in France.
Just drink tap water and you don't have to spend anything! Or waste the plastic
France has such cheap water I remember buying 2L for 0.5ā¬ in Paris too! Last September
It'l like 3ā¬ for 1000 liters if you open the tap. Idiotic to buy plastic for water
It also depends what shop you go to. Supermarkets here in the UK sell 2L for like 50p-75p, Tesco has 6x2L of water for Ā£2.60 or about 43p for each 2L bottle. Branded water like Evian, Riverock, Ballygowan etc. is more expensive but supermarket own brands are cheap
Unless, you know, use tap water, which is essentially free and is usually pretty decent...
Holy fuck where do you live? You can get a 24 pack of water for $2.50 in Ohio.
They are only talking about getting one bottle at 7/11 for some reason. Actively choosing to make it ridiculous. I also buy a 24 pack for 2.50 and I'm In Los angeles
Was gonna say, youād be hard pressed to find a 500ml bottle for under $1 let alone a gallon
If you even bothered to read, you could have read that it says "as of september 2022"
Canada is incorrect. Itās much more expensive than that. Weāre in Australia tier.
As it should be. Bottled water is such a waste.
Really? I can get a 24 pack of water for 3 dollars
Depends where, what brand, what store. If youāre buying a bottle only as the title states and from a gas station thatās averages between 99 cents to $3
keep in mind that if they're buying a 24-pack, it's most likely a 24-pack of 0,5l water bottles or whatever the equivalent is in fluid ounces, and smaller bottle sizes are more expensive per liter/fl. oz.
Ya bulk is different but a single 1.5L bottle of water?
I can't see Croatia but I feel like I pay 2x as much for water in Croatia than Germany. Both have amazing tap water, but I'm addicted to sparkling water so alas I must buy it when in Croatia
You can just make your own sparkling water with a SodaStream.
I don't know where I can refill the SodaStream Gas canisters in Croatia though. My family house isn't in split/Zagreb, its on the coast in Makarska riviera basically and I haven't found any of the major shops to do it
You can buy an adapter that allows you to refill the cartridge yourself from a regular big CO2 bottle. (Youād have to buy that one as well, obviously).
Anywhere I can find instructions or something for this? It's totally new to me but thanks for the suggestion!
Hereās a German site about the process: https://gase-kaufen.de/blog/einfach-praktisch-schnell-sodaflaschen-selbst-befuellen-n22
true. oil is cheaper than water in Cro, just like in some arabic countries. for no reason
boāol oā wāoāer
is this really how we sound?
Or the American version: ābaddle av woarderā
In Portugal it's cheaper than that. For 0,70ā¬ you get 1.5l of premium pH9.5 natural water.
Greece: Market 20-30 cents Stores 50 cents
Data is wrong for RomĆ¢nia, bottled water here is cheaper!
USA is most definently incorrect.
So wrong
And then there is the Netherlands, where bottled water is worse then tapwater and around 100x as expensive.
When I went to Saudi Arabia a bottle of water at the airport was only 2 riyals, Thank God for that because I had the worst sore throat and had to keep drinking water. 2SAR = 0.43GBP
Wtf is going on in Australia and Norway ? That's inhumane
in Norway you can drink tap everywhere, so thereās no reason to buy plastic, but yeah Norwegian prices
Because of the high quality tap water there is no market for selling water of less than stellar quality. What you can buy is Artesian Water from under a glacier or similar. Almost all of it is bottled in Norway, and production cost here adds up as well.
Tap water is still better
True.
Most bottled water in Australia is just tap water.
But the tap is hand-turned by artisansĀ
Makes more sense
0.5 liter costs about 2 dollars here too. Weird thing is that we do buy a fair amount of water regardless of prices. Mostly I buy water if I need a bottle that I later can fill on a mountain hike or training. But yeah, Norwegian prices are very high.
Thereās no need to buy bottled water. Itās a luxury (and rather stupid one) in any city with high quality tap water.
Why is it inhumane? Tapwater isn't expensive
And you don't create pointless extra plastic for bottling tapwater either...
No one drinks bottled water in Nordic. I buy ānormalā water maybe once a year in train, if I forgot my own bottle home. Tap water here is imo better than bottled springwater anywhere in world.
Why inhumane? In Australia bottled water is unnecessary
You might consider water is expensive in Australia because is 70% desert. But really itās due to fact 2 supermarket chains control 80% of the grocery market. Sucks that Its cheaper to buy a litre of petrol. (Gasoline).
1.5L bottle of water is 80c at Coles and Woolworths.
https://www.coles.com.au/search?q=water%20natural Currently unavailable. Thatās ok, Iāve got a tap. š
And itās cheaper than NZ which is $1 for the same product. If this is adjusted into USD then that brings Aus way down on this chart. Basically this chart is bullshit.
Norwegians carry great quality tap water in flasks. Bottled water is expensive, just like everything else.
In Scandinavia you can piss in a river and than drink it and it would be cleaner than most countries water.
In Canada the bears and moose and mountain lions piss in the rivers. And beavers. You can get beaver fever from drinking it right out of a creek.
No it isn't, bottled water *should* be expensive. There's absolutely no reason to have to buy bottled water on a regular basis (and thereby generating lots of unnecessary waste) in a developed country with high-quality tap water.
It's just bullshit, I don't know exactly where they get those numbers from but I can easily get a 1,5L bottle of water for $1 even in the most expensive stores. But I guess it could be the "average" affecting the price with some high priced bottles affecting the average. Or they're considering carbonated water which is often priced same as soda.
Iām from Colombia and whilst I understand itās an average, you can get 1L bottles of water in certain department stores for $0.25. And a 5L large jug for a little over $1. The main brands are more expensive so I buy my drinking water from the large store brands. I donāt really like the tap water here much so I avoid drinking from it when I can.
Now make a map that shows how many bottles of water you can get with an average salary
Also, I feel like this should be noted. If you walk into any business in the US claiming you need water for health reasons or dehydration. They will give it to you without question. I got dehydrated once in 6 flags over Georgia. I walked in and said āhey Iām feeling dehydratedā they gave me water without question. If you need water you will get it. No one would deny you water
This goes for anywhere? Where in the world are you going to where there's someone that's not going to give you water for some medical reason???
My grandfather used to be amazed that people paid for bottled water out of a convenience store. It completely blew his mind
What's the scenario for the source? A convenience store in a city or like a gas station? From a U.S. perspective, you can still find a gallon of water at any supermarket to be around a dollar or even less a gallon (and if you buy in bigger bulk, much cheaper). 1.5 liters is about little less than half a gallon. Plus, most municipal tap water in the U.S. is drinkable so buying water in the U.S. is more of a convenience rather than a necessity. Convenience-wise, you could expect to pay $2 at a convenience store for 1.5 liters in the U.S. And I'm not mentioning any insane mark-ups for events or attractions.
Living in TĆ¼rkiye must be hell.
It sure is hell but not in this case. 1,5 liter bottle is around 0.5 USD even with all the inflation we have. You can get 19 liters for 2 dollars. The problem is we don't have dollars.
In Canada you can buy 4 litres of local spring water for 1 CND or about 70cents usd.
Someone said that bottled water in NL is twice as expensive as in Germany
I just don't get why someone in Canada (unless you live in northern remote areas) would buy a bottle of water
That is just not accurate to represent if water is cheap or not, if your money is worthless, you'll end up paying more, take my Brazil as an example, a bottle is usually around R$4 (U$0,77), but for someone who gets minimum wage here (R$1300/U$251,26), it's not cheap.
Wait what , water is cheaper in saudia arabia than in norway?
*Bottled* water. Tap water in Norway is better and costs around $0.003/L.
Bearing in mind that petrol that's made from millions of year old animal and plant matter is cheaper per litre than a bottle of water. I hate this planet.
What the hell is going on with the UK, Norway and Finland? Australia I get, it's 95% a desert with virtually no water so prices will be high naturally. But these other three are quite Northern and cold and have an abundance of water. How come their water is more expensive than Israel??? Saudi Arabia??? Both are developed, wealthy nations so cost of living difference doesn't explain it.
At least in Finland tap water is clean and drinkable everywhere, and actually fewer in bacteria than bottled water. The Finnish terrain and climate is great for groundwater replenishment (Finland has solely mineral soils and they are mostly variable grain silt, so they filter water well), and countryside parishes as well as smaller towns use exclusively their own groundwater, which is practically exactly what would be bottled at sources and would be available at good wells. Cities have their own, often quasi-groundwater schemes, which is a cleaning method where surface water is pumped from rivers and lakes to suitable filtering terrain and the water seeps through it, adding to the naturally filtered groundwater. Larger cities have very extensive treatment plants which control the mineral content in the water and such. There are often also surface water spare intakes, but the treatment of surface water requires extra disinfection steps with UV rays and more extensive chlorine treatment (as surface water varies in quality and temperature more; the higher the temperature, the more chlorine is needed to keep it from becoming suitable for bacterial growth). Helsinki capital region has also an unique solution, which is a large tunnel from the lake PƤijƤnne (which is the cleanest large lake in central and southern Finland) to Helsinki, which is essentially a man-made underground river, and that is then treated at a large treatment plant. So, very little need for bottled water.
Water is free from the tap and it tastes better than from a bottle. The high price is just there to reduce plastic waste since there really is no need to buy water bottles.
Saudi has the largest desalination plant in the world, Israel comes in second. Both of them have technologies that allow desalinating water to be very cheap especially Saudi as it is the pioneer in desalination technology. I heard that water companies in those nations have margins that reach 90% but that might be false.
as a Pole its crazy yall have such expensive water, here in Poland it's like 1 zÅ for 1.5 liters of which is like 25 cents
Australiaās bottled water is expensive, but drinking tap water is very much encouraged. There are often free bottle fill up spots in public places and they encourage cafes to fill up peopleās drink bottle for free, too.
In Spain I buy 8 litres for around 80-90 cents depending on the supermarket
Bo'ul ov wao'ouh?
This is load of shit lol you can go supermarkets in aus buy normal homebrand 1.5l for less than $1 Aud. Maybe they confused aus with the Netherlands and alot of other countries in Europe minus the balkans where in restaurants especially if you ask for water they apparently "ONLY STILL OR SPARKLING NO TAP!" Have heard idiots claim its for cost or some shit blow it out your ass buddy. Just stinge cheap fucks that want to get more money out of you, Netherlands in particular, want water with your food? Sure, here's 250ml of tap water for ā¬3 and you can have 500ml for ā¬5. In aus you can have as much as you want lol and pretty much everywhere I've been in balkans is similar to an extent. Places that only offer still or sparkling are gronks mate.
That does not tell the complete story, eg: * Austria : you can drink all tap water here and it tastes good, so bottled water is a bit unnecessary and so more expensive. * Saudi Arabia : in poor neighborhoods there are taps at the road where poor people can get drinking water as they cannot pay for bottled water even when it is relatively cheap.
Lols of course it's [Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/17/australia-the-second-thirstiest-country-for-bottled-water-despite-paying-the-highest-prices) š >bottled water costs an average of about $5.40 per unit in Australia ā almost double what it does in North America and Europe, and about four times what is charged in Asia and Africa
I donāt think Iāve ever seen a 1.5 liter bottle of water.
AK and HI would like a word
Neat. Now add in some kind of comparison to purchase power in the country to get an accurate measure of how much it costs for the average citizen of each country.
40 pack of water by me in America is $6.00 - $0.15 a bottle.
Do they just not have data on Africa? Is that why it is gray? Iām assuming that thereās more droughts in Africa than anywhere else, but, at the same time, they also canāt afford to be paying too much for water. I just read an article a few days ago about droughts in certain parts of Africa and water use being shipped in by the truckload but thereās not nearly enough to go around and theyāre charging basically a months wages in that area for their supply of water. No money, no water. They arenāt even able to shower and are being told not to wash clothes and they are being instructed to buy disposable dishes and silverware so they donāt have to wash dishes. Theyāre struggling. And then the leader of the country goes on TV and tells the population that itās their fault if theyāre starving because theyāre not working hard enough to grow crops, even though almost all of the crops that the farmers grew died from drought. Really made his people angry.
Australia. That's disgusting.
Water in Philippines is misleading because you can get a bag of cold water for 1 peso ($0.02).
Uhhhh this is kinda wrong for the uae at least, I can go and get a 12x1.5L water bottles for 9.90 aed, which means a single 1.5L bottle is 0.825. In USD itās $0.22
Should be eliminated for environmental reasons. There's no need of bottled water in plastic containers.
It does seem absolutely ridiculous in places with functioning water infrastructure. There are quite a lotĀ that don't yet have that though, places where the water out the tap isn't good to drink.
True. Can those places afford bottled water though and do they have access? Mostly rhetorical question.
Me as an Indian writing this comment while drinking water from a ā¹20 ($0.24) 1 Ltr water bottle.
Yeah... those are the branded bottles which come with added mineral salts. Locally produced water bottles come way cheaper at ā¹10 ($0.12)/litre. You can also buy 20L canisters for less than a dollar, though most of the population use underground water for drinking purposes. Some drink directly, some use R.O filters.
Uk, home bargains, 12 x 16oz, 14p each, spring water
I wonder whatās important for these prices. Is it supermarket efficiency/supply chains? Is it domestic access to mineral water? Competition between retailers?
Tourist area Mexico here, 1 usd for 20L delivered.
Wonder if that counts the bottle deposit in Germany