Potable.

Yup! Just fill your own bottle. Most folks here have a refillable drinking bottle to carry around.

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Yes, and the word is potable. It is, of course, also portable.

OF COURSE !!!!!!

Depends on how large a container

Yes, it's actually quite good tasting water too.

If I were worried, I would bring my own water from home.

Thanks for the quick revert.

I figured out potable, but what is revert???

revert is a new word and appears to be a noun (though I suspect it started life as a verb) and means "get back to you" not sure where it comes from but I saw it first in about 2000.

Revert is like reflux, and in this case comes from drinking non portable water.

The beer is more potable but less portable.

I always drink the tap water in Germany, but my German relatives are sure that I will fall over dead!

Well Bayern is huge, and not all cities have potable water...
Munich has water of excellent quality, Würzburg,where i used to live had very hard water, that nobody was drinking......
Best thing to do, is to ask in every city, if the water is potable....

Potable = safe to drink
Palatable = pleasant to drink

Are you suggesting that there are places in Germany where the water coming out of the faucet is considered not potable? I find that hard to believe.

Bad tasting or hard water might mean non-palatable, but that's very different than non-potable. I am quite sure there are health standards in place that ensure the potability (= safe to drink) of the water supply.

"not all cities have potable water"

in Germany!

There will be fountains which will say not potable btthe stuff out of the taps will be excellent as in the vast majority of Europe. I only worry in eastern Europe.

J62 is spot on.
Tap water is potable (i.e. safe to drink) everywhere.
You just might like the taste in one region better than in others.
Water in Munich is extremely hard, full of minerals (as it originates in from a mountain spring), but quite tasty.

I don't think the tap water on trains is potable.

Tap water is fine in all of western europe

mdtravelhealth.com best info

don't drink out of the toilet on the trains

odds are great you will be fine.

The German restaurants are the only ones in the world that won't give you tap water with your meal when you request it-they always want you to buy bottles of water and charge you 3 euros. While most restaurants in Europe want you to buy bottled water with your meal,Germans INSIST on it. My fellow f/a's think that its quite funny!
Unless its a 3rd world country,most water (especially in Europe) is perfectly safe to drink out of the tap.Save your money for the beer and wine especially now that the Euro is around $1.48 USD?

I love this string - thanks to all who contributed. I used to live in Munich and there are fountains in the Marienplatz and Viktualien Market marked (okay to drink)and you'll see locals walk up, cup their hand under and take a nice cold drink. I've done it many times myself. Enjoy.

>Is tap water portable in Germany? <

Only if you carry it in approved containers.

The faucet tap is really hard to get out of the wall however, to make it portable.
Thank you to the poster who parsed "potable" and "palatable".

Yes, you can even take it across the borders.

even quite a bit of water in fountains can be po(r)table. If it isn't,it will be labeled 'kein trinkwasser'. The only such fountain I have ever drunk from in the US was on at Hot Springs NP (from a non-hot spring)

In Germany, I prefer the beer.

"don't drink out of the toilet on the trains"

- as opposed to drinking out of any other toilets, which would be o.k.??!!

Doesn't the pot-able water (i.e. in toilets) depend on recent and decent flushes? (Oh, why am I saying this).

Bill in Boston

Hard water will give you all of your mineral requirements, and more.

Germans drink only beer that's all and a bit of Schnapps to boot. Avoid all water.

I drank the tap water in Germany for 2 years and I am still alive. Even made ice out of it - and drank it with my meals! Unglaublich!

<<don't drink out of the toilet on the trains>>

Good Lord, I'm having images of someone sticking their head in the toilet and drinking like a dog. BLECCHHHH!!!!

Excellent advice, don't do that. Toilet water is not potable or palatable.