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

Question

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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Answer 1

You can generally use the “unclean” water to wash vegetables and such, just not directly drink. Certainly larger restaurants have their own filtration systems. Also, bottled water us pretty ubiquitous.