How do restaurants use water in places without safe-to-drink tap water?

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In most places in the world, tap water is not safe to drink out of the tap, and thus,not safe to wash vegetables for salads, make ice, etc. So in these countries, does every restaurant have a filtration system? Do chain restaurants have filtration systems? Or is the tap water just used regularly? I know it’s dumb but it’s one of those things I just don’t get.

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For a couple hundred dollars anyone can get a low volume drinking water reverse osmosis system with a 4 gallon tank. I have one in my house.

It costs between a few thousand and about $15 thousand for a full business high volume reverse osmosis system with water tank. These pull all the bacteria and all the contaminants out of the water and make the water taste exactly the same in every location. Almost every business that provides drinks to their customers has either a reverse osmosis or large filer system. Very tight volume businesses have many of these.

Reverse Osmosis is actually how most bottled water and other bottled drinks are made. They are really just tap water or well water that has been “filtered”.

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