In Japan, you can drink the tap water.In Tokyo.In a Nagano mountain village.In a town nobody’s heard of.Anywhere.Not because the country is rich.Not because they import it.Because the public waterhas to pass 51 quality checks by law.More than most bottled water.Restaurants pour it free.Children drink it from the schoolyard tap.Old men fill their cups from the kitchen sinkthe same way their grandfathers did.Think about the last timeyou didn’t think twicebefore drinking from a faucet.In Japan, that’s not luxury.That’s the floor.Something the whole countryquietly built for each other.