SONEDE (national water distributor) keeps on insisting the tap water is perfectly drinkable and well within the "normal" ranges. INSSPA (national food administration authority) has confirmed SONEDE's claims, just not with the empirical evidence you would come to expect from this public institute.

Are these statements true? Who knows, neither statements are actually verifiable which makes both entirely meaningless.

What are the normal ranges? Why isn't there a public database of all the studies done on tap water across all states, or did the concept of open data go over their heads?

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I personally think INSSPA's approach to public relations is lackluster and calls for a second, higher authority to verify their claims.

Now, we'll probably need a third, and maybe a fourth authority to validate the claims of the lower-level authorities.

There is a minor downside to this multi-level authority system: as the statements move up the chain from the bottom-level authority to those above, passing each one's own "verification" systems, you may just have to wait a bit longer to know if the water is "totally drinkable".

Why even bother with open data? What the hell good does that do? Why is France wasting taxpayer money building datesets, color-coding and organizing stuff when a public statement is sufficient? Beats me.

Cheers while (if?) that tap of yours still works.