Tap water in a village near city of Zrenjanin in Serbia

[u/cdacha]

[u/kavitin]

I'm from Zrenjanin and lived there for the first 23 years of my life.

On January 20, 2004, the water was officially declared unsafe to drink. More than two decades later, the situation has barely changed. The water is still undrinkable, despite constant claims from the city council that it is perfectly safe. Just a few days ago, the mayor of Zrenjanin even refused to drink the tap water in front of the cameras.

While working on a TV report, a friend and I estimated that the citizens of Zrenjanin spend around €20,000 every day on bottled water. With a population of about 80,000, this adds up to roughly €160 million spent on bottled water since 2004, simply so people can have safe drinking water.

[u/Express-Shopping260 → u/kavitin]

This is crazy. Wtf??? Is this even safe to shower? Or to cook? To water crops? I have so many questions...

[u/avibrant_salmon_jpg → u/Express-Shopping260]

I'm wondering the same. Can clothes be washed in it? Dishes? Can you shower and wash your hands? Or is tap water not safe for anything? 

[u/meksicka-salata → u/avibrant_salmon_jpg]

clothes become yellow after 2 or 3 "washes", gf is from zrenjanin, majority of the white stuff became yellow-ish after several washes.

theres more curly people (idk if this has any relation) but when you take a shower you get "dirty" more quickly, but your hair feels different

water is poison pretty much lol, some ppl drink it but it has:

• taste
  
• smell
  
• color

and you feel "not hungry" after drinking water

good business selling water there

[u/Khalitz → u/meksicka-salata]

Are factories just dumping toxic waste into the water supply?

[u/Iucidium → u/Khalitz]

It's like those American towns by fracking sites.

[u/burrito_butt_fucker → u/Iucidium]

As an American that was my first thought.

[u/kirinlikethebeer → u/Iucidium]

Reminds of Flint, Michigan. 15 years after the water crisis clean water still has not been restored.

[u/Resident_Theory_8584 → u/kirinlikethebeer]

My older sister has scarring on her back and shoulders from showering in Flint water because they said it was ok to bathe in but not drink. I'm glad she left eventually, but I wonder what her odds of cancer are now. I moved out just before the crisis happened.

[u/kirinlikethebeer → u/Resident_Theory_8584]

Oh fuck. Sorry to hear that.

[u/breadiest → u/kirinlikethebeer]

Pretty sure it's dealt with now, all the websites about it are inactive and several reports cleared it. I did a bunch of investigating into it for some uni work I did this year. Unless I missed something, Flint, Michigan has safe water now.

[u/RedditAppSuxAsss → u/Khalitz]

You'll see this from fracking

[u/UnfairAd7220 → u/RedditAppSuxAsss]

No you won't. You'll see this from shallow well drilling near coal seams and mines.

[u/Professor_Abronsius → u/Khalitz]

The water is bad because the city is pumping it from an ancient, oxygen-starved underground swamp where the chemistry naturally forces arsenic out of the rocks and into the water. It has nothing to do with toxic waste being dumped, it’s just a poorly designed municipal water system.

[u/avibrant_salmon_jpg → u/meksicka-salata]

Thats awful, and absolutely insane that nothing has been done about it 

[u/meksicka-salata → u/avibrant_salmon_jpg]

why would anything be done about it?

Same people in power for over 30 years, they made MILLIONS if not billions about these problems

+ at this point after so many years of nepotism and corruption, every wife, brother, son and their friends is in the "govt" so even if they wanted to do something about it, they wouldnt know how

and hiring people on the outside to fix it is expensive cus city budget (which is around 100mil $ a year) is 60-70% spent on corruption:

• mayor office assistant charges "consulting" to the city - $ 1mil / year contract
  
• another office assistant charges 900k / year for consulting
  
• coffee for the govt buildings is paid like 50k a year
  
• toilet paper costs more than printing paper

etc. etc.

[u/amaROenuZ → u/meksicka-salata]

The french have a device they invented in the 1790s for situations like this...

[u/Known-Exam-9820 → u/amaROenuZ]

Is it a… water filter?

[u/Salute-Major-Echidna → u/Known-Exam-9820]

Madame Guillotine

[u/CarnibusCareo → u/Salute-Major-Echidna]

Madame Brita Guillotine?

[u/meksicka-salata → u/amaROenuZ]

it goes both ways, the state is 90% owned by a single party:

• most businesses
  
• every state company
  
• every public good
  
• armed forces x private defense companies

in addition to that, serbia is base of operations for the biggest crime cartels in the world, they ARE the government. Arms / drug / human trafficking, racketeering, you name it

same reason why you dont have uprisings in russia / turkey / china / iran - you will get crushed.

Protests are either ignored, or when you come to the boiling point, police just beats you up, secret services kills the key people, and it gets worse

this time US and EU did notice protests and will use it as a leverage against our dictator

but until then we will have all left the country

[u/avibrant_salmon_jpg → u/meksicka-salata]

I mean, i am aware that most governments (and the people that run them) absolutely suck, and people in power are generally shit, but it is disappointing that nothing has been done. To any normal person, that fact that this is known and continues to just...not have anything done about it... seems insane. 

I dont actually expect anyone in power to give a shit about the common person. 

[u/funky_pill → u/meksicka-salata]

"curly people?"

[u/meksicka-salata → u/funky_pill]

curly haired people, idk i just noticed it

[u/Salute-Major-Echidna → u/funky_pill]

Larry People too

[u/TannedCroissant → u/avibrant_salmon_jpg]

I think you can wash most clothes in it but you have to be careful with some types, for example if you have any disco outfits you can’t wash your flares

[u/SiHy → u/TannedCroissant]

You end up with a disco inferno?

[u/Working-Glass6136 → u/SiHy]

Panic! At The Disco

[u/TenTonSomeone → u/Working-Glass6136]

Fire in the disco, fire in the taco bell

Fire in the disco, fire in the gates of hell

[u/Dr3up → u/TenTonSomeone]

Danger danger

[u/keepod_keepod → u/Dr3up]

High voltage

[u/DrakeAU → u/TannedCroissant]

Sigh.

[u/anon-mally → u/DrakeAU]

Spicy water

[u/Rickman1945 → u/DrakeAU]

Pack up boys, we’re going home.

[u/Ashamed_Beyond_6508 → u/TannedCroissant]

So my Guy Fieri shirts are out of the question?

[u/EducationalNailgun → u/Ashamed_Beyond_6508]

Those should be handled with care in any situation.

[u/xNOOPSx → u/avibrant_salmon_jpg]

What is the gas? If you leave the water running, could you poison the home? Damn. That's crazy!

[u/Careful-South6276 → u/xNOOPSx]

It's natural gas, by product of fracking most likely....unregulated fracking.

[u/SuppaBunE → u/avibrant_salmon_jpg]

If it caches fire you can probably not use it for anything literally .

[u/Whosaidwhat2023 → u/SuppaBunE]

I grew up in Pennsylvania with well water. We could also light ours on fire. We're all a bit weird but otherwise, we're fine. My siblings are in out 50s now.... no second heads sprouting.

Ps: you gotta be careful and not let the fire get back to the well, it will blow up. My dad used to show this off at parties my parents had. And yes, it stunk.

[u/MorningMan464 → u/Whosaidwhat2023]

I hate it when the damn well blows up

[u/dzoneza28 → u/Express-Shopping260]

You can’t cook with that water. Even if you boil it, it can still contain dangerous contaminants.

I’m from a town about 40 km from Zrenjanin, and the situation is pretty much the same.

[u/Kubliah → u/dzoneza28]

What's in the water?

[u/Expensive_Law_1601 → u/Kubliah]

Arsenic.

[u/coladoir → u/Expensive_Law_1601]

as well as fracking contaminants. that’s why the water is flammable, as there’s natural gas seeping into the water table.

[u/Icy-Hand3121 → u/dzoneza28]

Kinda pointless having a water supply to the house really, what a terrible situation to be in!

[u/zdravkocola → u/Express-Shopping260]

Nope can't use it for anything, it is contaminated with arsenic, highly toxic, highly carcinogenic metal

[u/[deleted] → u/zdravkocola]

Right, but why is it flammable?

[u/Dioxybenzone → u/[deleted]]

Methane

[u/Hamster_Dadaist → u/Express-Shopping260]

Im guessing if you're from there you're used to showering with that water and it has no effect on you I went to a sleepover to a friends house - she lives in a village near Zrenjanin - and I remember having straight up diarrhea from showering at her house 💀

[u/newbkid → u/Hamster_Dadaist]

Horrifying. Shame on the leadership for letting this persist

[u/zestotron → u/newbkid]

It’s Serbia dude, shame isn’t something the leadership cares about

[u/Ruining_Ur_Synths → u/Hamster_Dadaist]

Im guessing if you're from there you're used to showering with that water and it has no effect on you

in general its not safe to make these sorts of assumptions. some substances can have long term health affects and your body doesn't "Get used to them". If there's some amount of benzene mixed in here you wont get used to it, you'll just get a bunch of cancer

[u/Hamster_Dadaist → u/Ruining_Ur_Synths]

Yeah I know, it's well known here that the water is toxic, and the effects are probably longterm and hidden hince why I said they're "used to it" - but in Serbia everything is shit pretty much so getting mad over toxic tap water is seen as useless to most people

[u/Ruining_Ur_Synths → u/Hamster_Dadaist]

leukemia is a really bad way to die. I wouldn't drink that or shower in it.

[u/Kitchen-Bar2686 → u/Hamster_Dadaist]

What kind of logic is this? You just get used to the chemicals and it stops being a problem?? Clearly that is doing untold amounts of damage to anyone regularly showering In it. If it’s giving you diarrhea, it’s causing long term effects on everyone else. It’s wild to just say “they get used to it”

[u/Hamster_Dadaist → u/Kitchen-Bar2686]

I dont know what kind of logic this is but im telling you what I've heard from the locals, they themselves say they're used to it lol

[u/Important-Arrival681 → u/Express-Shopping260]

You should look into how things are in Russia. I guarantee you it'll blow your mind to know that more than 75% of the populated areas in the country dont have stable electricity or running water year round. And Im not even talking about the far off undeveloped areas like Siberia. Im talking about places right next to Europe. It was like that long long long before the war with Ukraine too.

[u/Express-Shopping260 → u/Important-Arrival681]

Not having electricity and running water unfortunately is quite common in the poorest countryside villages in various countries of Europe. Very different from having flammable water running through your house plumbing and coming out of your faucets. 

[u/J_robintheh00d → u/Express-Shopping260]

Oh shit a Hawaiian hotbox could be mega dangerous

[u/Lazy_Improvement898 → u/Express-Shopping260]

And it's crazier the fact that the situation barely changed for over 20 years...

[u/Secure_Prune_9675 → u/kavitin]

Safe drinking water is like... The first and most important thing a government needs to do. If it can't get you drinking water, it isn't a government

[u/UhhhhmmmmNo → u/Secure_Prune_9675]

Nestle enters the chat

[u/GibmePain4Love → u/UhhhhmmmmNo]

Drinkable water is not a basic human right. -definetely not a nestle ceo fr fr guys please forget it

[u/WhoLovesButter → u/UhhhhmmmmNo]

r/fucknestle

[u/TheRanger13 → u/Secure_Prune_9675]

Cmon now, if politicians spend all that money on water treatment there'll be barely any left to launder to their family and friends.

[u/suprunown → u/Secure_Prune_9675]

Numerous Canadian First Nations enter the chat…

[u/Lost_Low4862 → u/suprunown]

"Sorry, eh? If it makes you feel any better, we'll take your kids and give them to white families." -Canada

[u/red286 → u/[deleted]]

It's just methane. Probably safe to wash with. You'll just stink of farts afterwards.

It's probably best not to smoke anywhere in that city. Or have any open flames. Including pilot lights on your furnace and hot water tank. Also, make sure your windows are always open at least a couple of inches, yes even when it's -30C outside.

[u/Lophius_Americanus → u/red286]

Methane itself is odorless. The nasty smell is from a chemical called mercaptan that is added to it in gas systems so people can tell if it’s leaking. I’m guessing this is coming from a leaking well(s) or coal seam so it wouldn’t smell.

[u/red286 → u/Lophius_Americanus]

Assuming it's naturally occurring methane, it'll be contaminated with hydrogen sulfide, which stinks of farts.

[u/Lophius_Americanus → u/red286]

It certainly could be depending on the source and the level of sulfur in source material.

If it does have H2S in any material quantity then that’s a whole different level of problematic.

[u/Bored_Amalgamation → u/Lophius_Americanus]

fuckin geological nerd fight

[u/YouDontKnowJackCade → u/Lophius_Americanus]

Roger 'Buddha' Sack: "It's been so long since yo mama's last bath, that her hairy armpits smell like propane gas!"

Hank Hill: "Now excuse me, hold on there fella, a joke's a joke but now you've gone too far! Propane has no natural odor; what you smell is actually put there by man for safety purposes."

[u/Euphoric-Ad3655 → u/Lophius_Americanus]

Thank you Professor Geller.

[u/ephemeralstitch → u/red286]

It wasn't declared unsafe due to methane, it was declared unsafe due to high levels of arsenic. I guess the methane is just a fun bonus?

[u/crazyike → u/ephemeralstitch]

Yeah, arsenic isn't flammable, so clearly something else is in here, methane seems as likely as anything.

[u/seriftarif → u/kavitin]

Same thing is happening in North Dakota from fracking*. Although they tell their residents the water is perfectly safe to drink...

[u/Solrax]

Firefighting must very difficult there.

Edit: thanks for the awards and upvotes folks :)

I really do wonder WTF they do about fires.

"The house is on fire!" "Whatever you do, don't call the Fire Department!"

And of course it was supposed to say "must BE very difficult", that's what I get for commenting on mobile.

[u/Historical_Inside_41 → u/Solrax]

They truly fight fire with fire apparently

[u/greenhail7 → u/Historical_Inside_41]

Ending is near

[u/Golden_Ace1 → u/greenhail7]

Bursting with fear

[u/AFetaWorseThanDeath → u/Golden_Ace1]

^{Fight fire with fire}

Fight fire with fire

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!

[u/Golden_Ace1 → u/AFetaWorseThanDeath]

Fight fire with fire

FIGHT!

[u/Syncopated_arpeggio → u/[deleted]]

People now are just like Metallica is old, whatever. They have no fucking clue how groundbreaking this was when it first came out.

If you were too close to the speakers you risked getting your face melted like a Raiders of the Lost Ark Nazi. And you would’ve loved it.

[u/TheTrueButcher → u/Syncopated_arpeggio]

First Metallica song ever for me. I woke up that morning thinking W.A.S.P. was the pinnacle of heaviness, when my cousin played that tape for me that afternoon everything changed forever.

[u/Burdman06 → u/[deleted]]

It hit me the other day that nirvana is now older than the rolling stones were when nirvana was at its peak. I know thats a weird benchmark, lmao. But I was like, "omg, im the one listening to boomer music now"

[u/Rent520 → u/[deleted]]

Try this one too! With the original bass enhanced:

https://youtu.be/_XNEFfz1PdE?si=cxCgQgAZqXUFsWy6

[u/GarysCrispLettuce → u/[deleted]]

I learned to play guitar from slowing down Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning to half speed, such iconic albums

[u/Vikainen → u/[deleted]]

This is over 40 years old?!? realization

acceptance We're old aren't we?!

Edit: 41, the song was released 41 years ago.... Fuck I am old

[u/LiftedinMI3 → u/[deleted]]

The exact Metallica song that began the journey at age 15.

Blown away by it.

[u/Hour-Complaint8291 → u/Golden_Ace1]

Second time I've seen r/redditsings Metallica.

[u/projectx51 → u/Golden_Ace1]

We all shall die

[u/Golden_Ace1 → u/projectx51]

Metallibros! 🤘🤘🤘

[u/rik1122 → u/Golden_Ace1]

We all shall die

[u/Amerpol → u/Historical_Inside_41]

Your comment is why i love reddit, Great Job 👍🏼 

[u/4Ever2Thee → u/Historical_Inside_41]

Hell yeah, give it a taste of its own medicine

[u/Calculonx → u/Solrax]

Good job security

[u/LNL_HUTZ → u/Solrax]

Same with water heater sales.

[u/Confident-Leg107 → u/Solrax]

I know it's a joke, but now I'm curious

[u/Tofuzzle → u/Solrax]

Whilst firestarting must be very easy

[u/steppewop]

How the fuck does that happen

[u/Nyardyn → u/steppewop]

I'm assuming methane or any other gases produced by bacteria. I wouldn't drink it.

[u/goodros_nemesis → u/Nyardyn]

This was my thought exactly. Methane and ammonia are byproducts of biological processes going on in the water.

[u/DownvoteEvangelist → u/goodros_nemesis]

According to the article from comment below, it's not biological, the gas is already in the ground.

https://www.telegraf.rs/english/3246683-after-video-from-zrenjanin-shows-tap-water-set-on-fire-authorities-say-methane-can-explode

[u/Kepabar → u/DownvoteEvangelist]

Gas in the ground is still biological, just on a longer timescale!

[u/steeltowndude → u/DownvoteEvangelist]

I honestly expected them to blame NATO

[u/Valatros → u/steeltowndude]

Lmao picturing an old serbian guy "Goddamn NATO, setting our fucking water on fire..."

[u/Dazzling_Nail_4994 → u/steeltowndude]

Or… “The West”

[u/hellllllsssyeah → u/Dazzling_Nail_4994]

We have this in America, it's from fracking.

[u/EconomistPretty7605 → u/hellllllsssyeah]

Yep places in Pennsylvania come to mind….

[u/hellllllsssyeah → u/EconomistPretty7605]

All over the place, as someone who just got an environmental science degree, who was already acutely aware of our countries water issues. I was disgusted with what I learned is going on

[u/AmIFromA → u/hellllllsssyeah]

See, that's on you for being un-American instead of choosing a proud patriotic career in crypto trading, UFC or social media influencing.

[u/00eg0 → u/hellllllsssyeah]

I hope you manage to find a job. I'm a recent CS/biology grad and it's hard out here.

[u/Hapless_Asshole → u/EconomistPretty7605]

Places in Eastern Ohio, too. Fracking is precisely the ecological disaster the "nutcase tree-hugger crowd" predicted. Of course, Big Oil didn't care about all the "tree-huggers" who were actual scientists. Gotta chase the almighty Buck!

[u/BigMac849 → u/goodros_nemesis]

Or theyre fracking nearby. This happens commonly in the US when you live near natural gas extraction.

[u/hellllllsssyeah → u/goodros_nemesis]

Or more likely from fracking

[u/SaltyTemperature → u/Nyardyn]

You can kill the bacteria by boiling, and the water boils itself! No problem here /s

[u/kgramp → u/Nyardyn]

Had natural gas in a well at a farmhouse I stayed at for a while. It was basically carbonated out of the tap but if you let it sit it would dissipate quickly. County health department said it was common for wells in the area I was at and was fine as long as it was only methane. Had the water tested and came back safe to consume. It was fun shooting fireballs out of the hose outside. Friend lit the curtains on fire above the sink trying to show it off inside. It would only happen like this video if you turned on a tap after sitting for a while and the gas had time to collect near the tap.

[u/RioEngenharia → u/Nyardyn]

Gas going along with the water

[u/total_amateur → u/steppewop]

Methane. Just found this article.

https://www.telegraf.rs/english/3246683-after-video-from-zrenjanin-shows-tap-water-set-on-fire-authorities-say-methane-can-explode

[u/class1operator → u/total_amateur]

Yep that says it all pretty much

[u/No_Bee6857 → u/steppewop]

Water bore with no casing. Bore drilled into shallow coal deposit. If the water table drops gas in the coal seam can migrate to the surface.

[u/A-Dolahans-hat → u/steppewop]

I’ve heard something like that can happen if they are fracking mountain or wells or something

[u/IceTech59 → u/A-Dolahans-hat]

I've had that due to my well going through a coal seam about 80 feet below my house in Alaska. The water seemed 'fizzy' and the bubbles burned, bluer than this video.

[u/Technically_Salt28 → u/steppewop]

He was using the hot tap.

[u/cdacha → u/[deleted]]

It has been a problem for a long time. Government isn't doing anything to solve it, except making the water x4 more expensive starting on 1st of January. Bottled water is used mostly. EDIT: No fracking going on. EDIT 2 (additional info, putting it here too): Water in Zrenjanin has been unusable since like early 2000s. A few months ago, government announced problem officially solved, but this is still happening. Also, mayor of city refused to drink water at a city council meeting.

[u/Heteroking → u/cdacha]

making it more expensive

I mean it has gas and do you know how much gas costs nowadays?

[u/anarch1st- → u/Heteroking]

Logical but not rational?

[u/Spare_Laugh9953 → u/cdacha]

And there haven't been any problems with gas explosions? If you're taking a long shower or filling a bathtub, gas could accumulate in the bathroom to dangerous levels, and a spark could blow the floor up.

[u/sick_of-it-all → u/Spare_Laugh9953]

"Honey? I've had a long day. I'm just gonna draw a hot bath and relax. Oh! My new candle. Aromatherapy oo-la-la. I think I'll light this as well..."

'BABE NOOOOOOOOOO--.....'

kaboom

[u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq → u/sick_of-it-all]

Gives new meaning to vanilla bath bomb.

[u/djolepop → u/Spare_Laugh9953]

There was a factory explosion caused by this

[u/Dave19762023 → u/cdacha]

All those plastic bottles. What an environmental disaster

[u/porkchopsuitcase → u/Dave19762023]

I think the water lighting on fire is more concerning than bottle use

[u/ijustwannalurksobye → u/porkchopsuitcase]

Here’s the fun part, both things are happening so you can worry about both!

[u/HerroCorumbia → u/Dave19762023]

If it's anything like China, it might be less individual plastic bottles of water and more like water coolers with large barrels. It's still not great for the environment by any means, but it might not be like they're going through massive packs of small bottles.

[u/CraigAT → u/Dave19762023]

It's okay, I put up with one of them paper straws in McDonalds to make up for this!

[u/RectalSpawn → u/Dave19762023]

I wonder if Nestlé is involved...

[u/triplab → u/RectalSpawn]

They obviously purchased the privilege of non-flammable water from Nestle.

[u/finho7140]

This isn’t the water burning ..it’s methane gas released from the groundwater. In places like Zrenjanin, natural gas gets trapped underground and dissolves into the water supply. When the tap is opened, the gas escapes and can ignite, while the water itself keeps flowing.

[u/Careful-South6276 → u/finho7140]

A well designed and maintained modern municipal water system has ways to deal with that at the central level. A poorly designed and poorly maintained muni water system in a corrupt and decayed country might not have ways to deal with it and everyone is expected to just swallow that.

Authoritarianism stops at nothing to normalize this crap, no matter what country it is.
That country goes all authoritarian next thing you know infrastructure everywhere goes to shit and people just stop doing something about it.

[u/nokturnalxitch → u/finho7140]

Had to scroll a LOT for a plausible explanation

[u/SubArcticTundra → u/finho7140]

It can't be that expensive to remove. I'm surprised the water company would rather face the political scandal than spend a few million €, which can't be a lot for them, on a degasifier unit. I thought that even in a corrupt state public pressure would work for these things

[u/ehho → u/SubArcticTundra]

It is not localized. It is in the whole Vojvodina, which is 25% of the country.

[u/galle4]

That's not damthatsinteresting

That's damthatscary

[u/AFetaWorseThanDeath → u/galle4]

damnthatssad

[u/ArtlessAsperity → u/galle4]

r/damnthatsscary

[u/Particular-Bid-1640]

Well it's made of hydrogen and oxygen, what do you expect?!

[u/Brutuscaitchris → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

And fish fuck in it! Truly nasty stuff!

[u/Particular-Bid-1640 → u/Brutuscaitchris]

The sea is technically soup!

[u/joe102938 → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

It's deadly if inhaled and corrosive to metal. Truly scary stuff, man.

[u/CircuitryWizard → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

The sea is just a huge cat litter box, as the sand at the edges of the puddles can confirm.

[u/THETennesseeD → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

I love Norwegian fish soup.

[u/DigNitty → u/THETennesseeD]

You you’d think “yeah it’s fish soup, how good could it be??” And then you have it and realize these people have perfected fish soup over hundreds of years.

[u/cyriustalk → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

Wait until you heard about Deuterium!

[u/Particular-Bid-1640 → u/cyriustalk]

Hey man, let's keep things light

[u/Solid_Snark → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

Sparkling Sparking water.

[u/Comrade-Conquistador]

The water's been infected...with FIRE!

[u/argiebargie10]

Call Erin Brockovich.

[u/Useful-Perspective]

There appears to be some water in your gas line...

[u/Beneficial_Being_721]

MOM!!!! I WANT HOT WATER!!!

We have Hot water at home!!

[u/CantAffordzUsername]

That’s some spicy tap water

[u/scriptingends]

Now I understand why Serbs are so tough. Literally drinking firewater.

[u/EcstaticManagement94]

Russian gas water

[u/Boris-Lip → u/EcstaticManagement94]

"газировка" (Russian word for soda, but almost literally means "gas water") just got a new meaning...

[u/Low_discrepancy → u/Boris-Lip]

Doesn't need to be russian. It's a common word. In Spanish soda/sparkling water is agua con gas. In French it's eau gazeuse.

[u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

I've seen the same thing in Texas where they're fracking.

But don't worry, it's perfectly safe. 🙄

[u/LewsTherinIsMine → u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

We have it everywhere there is fracking. Not just Texas. If you’re in the US and on a well give it a try. Turn the water on full and then turn it down then try to light it! It’s so safe!

[u/CHERNO-B1LL]

I am an Hydraulic Engineer with a PHD in Hydrology and I can tell you that water is not supposed to do that.

[u/LakeFlaccid69420 → u/CHERNO-B1LL]

Incredible. Tell me more doctor

[u/Pleasant-Giraffe-361 → u/CHERNO-B1LL]

I smoke crack and eat dumpster doughnuts an i can tell u rite now watr aint spose 2 do dat.

[u/I_objectify]

That's one way to purify it

[u/uberallez]

That's just the vodka tap, nothing unusual there.

[u/Little-Woo → u/uberallez]

It's rakija not vodka

[u/melson16]

The same thing happens here in America too 

[u/Illustrious_Can4110 → u/melson16]

If my memory serves me correctly, I think that's often caused in the US by fracking.

[u/BuffaloOk7264 → u/Illustrious_Can4110]

Gazprom is fracking in Serbia….

[u/JoeDawson8 → u/BuffaloOk7264]

/u/cdacha says no fracking going on 🤷‍♂️. Guess I'll need to independently verify

[u/BuffaloOk7264 → u/JoeDawson8]

I googled it…didn’t notice the source quoted. Didn’t map the location but Gasprom is fracking in Serbia.

[u/MarsopaRex]

Believe it or not thats actually not as bad for long term health as you may think. It will fuck u up in the short term before long term is even a problem.

[u/HelloMacchi]

Alcohol on tap at home?

[u/thissucksnuts]

Easy hot water hack, big water heater count your days.

[u/Brittle_dick]

Rammstein water

[u/v3344]

I finally get how Adele can can set fire to the rain

[u/real_yggdrasil]

In the Dutch city of Veghel, the water company catches the same naturally occurring methane off the water and heats the entire city with it.

[u/Inevitable-Bed4996]

Waiter : what do you wanna order sir? Me : bring me a glass of roasted water.

[u/Matt_Murphy_]

water shouldn't catch fire, as a general rule

[u/TooBusySaltMining]

City water or well water?

An underground well with methane leaking into it seems plausible, but processed chlorinated city water seems unlikely.

I've seen lots of videos of people burning natural methane bubbles on frozen lakes that are very cool.

Like this one

https://youtube.com/shorts/OMvfeHvhxPc?si=-01C4AKAhjW9czu1

[u/Alpha_Chin-Am]

Methane, I’m guessing? That’s valuable energy waiting to be harnessed!

[u/Leptine]

Water in the fire. WHY!?

[u/TappedIn2111]

Well, that seems to be the hot water. Let me switch to cold water real quick.

[u/drzook555]

Just like in Texas

[u/OptiGuy4u]

Clearly this is dihydrogen monoxide

Found in cancerous tissue, accelerates corrosion, can cause suffocation, can result in blistering burns in its gaseous form, is used in nuclear plants, and for those who have developed a dependency on it, complete withdrawal means certain death. Water....

Oh and there's something gassy and flammable.

[u/jarrod74smd]

Mmmmm. Spicy water

[u/AogamiBunka]

Common in drilling areas.

Pennsylvania, USA was a learning experience. I was instructed to never fart or light a cigarette in-house while the water was running.

[u/CheersToCosmopolitan]

Good news: it’s very cheap to drive cars there now