Tap water

This is a lesson in how countries like Switzerland, Germany and Austria are the same but yet not. They would all resent it, but never mind. When out last night we shared a table with a weird American (not an oxymoron!) who for some reason was very interested to learn what the words tap water would be in German. Since we were a quite diverse group we learned the following: Austrian: leitungswasser. German: trinkwasser. Swiss: hahnewasser. No wonder I have trouble learning this friggin so called German language!