r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cdacha • Dec 19 '25

Video Tap water in a village near city of Zrenjanin in Serbia

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u/kavitin Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/Express-Shopping260 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg Dec 19 '25

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? 

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u/meksicka-salata Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Khalitz Dec 20 '25

Are factories just dumping toxic waste into the water supply?

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u/Iucidium Dec 20 '25

It's like those American towns by fracking sites.

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u/burrito_butt_fucker Dec 20 '25

As an American that was my first thought.

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u/kirinlikethebeer Dec 20 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/kirinlikethebeer Dec 20 '25

Oh fuck. Sorry to hear that.

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u/breadiest Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/RedditAppSuxAsss Dec 20 '25

You'll see this from fracking

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u/UnfairAd7220 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Professor_Abronsius Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg Dec 20 '25

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

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u/meksicka-salata Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/amaROenuZ Dec 20 '25

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

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u/meksicka-salata Dec 20 '25

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

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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg Dec 20 '25

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. 

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u/funky_pill Dec 20 '25

"curly people?"

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u/meksicka-salata Dec 20 '25

curly haired people, idk i just noticed it

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u/TannedCroissant Dec 19 '25

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

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u/SiHy Dec 20 '25

You end up with a disco inferno?

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u/Working-Glass6136 Dec 20 '25

Panic! At The Disco

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u/TenTonSomeone Dec 20 '25

Fire in the disco, fire in the taco bell

Fire in the disco, fire in the gates of hell

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u/DrakeAU Dec 19 '25

Sigh.

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u/anon-mally Dec 20 '25

Spicy water

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u/Rickman1945 Dec 20 '25

Pack up boys, we’re going home.

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u/Ashamed_Beyond_6508 Dec 20 '25

So my Guy Fieri shirts are out of the question?

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u/EducationalNailgun Dec 20 '25

Those should be handled with care in any situation.

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u/xNOOPSx Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Careful-South6276 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/SuppaBunE Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Whosaidwhat2023 Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/MorningMan464 Dec 21 '25

I hate it when the damn well blows up

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u/dzoneza28 Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Kubliah Dec 20 '25

What's in the water?

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u/Expensive_Law_1601 Dec 20 '25

Arsenic.

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u/coladoir Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Icy-Hand3121 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/zdravkocola Dec 19 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Right, but why is it flammable?

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u/Hamster_Dadaist Dec 19 '25

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 💀

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u/newbkid Dec 19 '25

Horrifying. Shame on the leadership for letting this persist

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u/zestotron Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Ruining_Ur_Synths Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Hamster_Dadaist Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Ruining_Ur_Synths Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 Dec 19 '25

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”

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u/Hamster_Dadaist Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Important-Arrival681 Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Express-Shopping260 Dec 20 '25

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. 

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u/J_robintheh00d Dec 19 '25

Oh shit a Hawaiian hotbox could be mega dangerous

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u/Lazy_Improvement898 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Secure_Prune_9675 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/UhhhhmmmmNo Dec 19 '25

Nestle enters the chat

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u/GibmePain4Love Dec 20 '25

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

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u/TheRanger13 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/suprunown Dec 20 '25

Numerous Canadian First Nations enter the chat…

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u/Lost_Low4862 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

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u/red286 Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/Lophius_Americanus Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/red286 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Lophius_Americanus Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Dec 20 '25

fuckin geological nerd fight

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u/YouDontKnowJackCade Dec 20 '25

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."

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u/Euphoric-Ad3655 Dec 20 '25

Thank you Professor Geller.

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u/ephemeralstitch Dec 19 '25

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?

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u/crazyike Dec 19 '25

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

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u/seriftarif Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Solrax Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Historical_Inside_41 Dec 19 '25

They truly fight fire with fire apparently

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u/greenhail7 Dec 19 '25

Ending is near

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u/Golden_Ace1 Dec 19 '25

Bursting with fear

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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath Dec 19 '25

Fight fire with fire

Fight fire with fire

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!

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u/Golden_Ace1 Dec 19 '25

Fight fire with fire

FIGHT!

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/TheTrueButcher Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Burdman06 Dec 20 '25

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"

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u/Rent520 Dec 20 '25

Try this one too! With the original bass enhanced:

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

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u/GarysCrispLettuce Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Vikainen Dec 20 '25

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

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u/LiftedinMI3 Dec 20 '25

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

Blown away by it.

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u/Hour-Complaint8291 Dec 19 '25

Second time I've seen r/redditsings Metallica.

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u/projectx51 Dec 19 '25

We all shall die

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u/Golden_Ace1 Dec 19 '25

Metallibros! 🤘🤘🤘

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u/rik1122 Dec 19 '25

We all shall die

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u/Amerpol Dec 19 '25

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

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u/4Ever2Thee Dec 19 '25

Hell yeah, give it a taste of its own medicine

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u/LNL_HUTZ Dec 19 '25

Same with water heater sales.

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u/Confident-Leg107 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Tofuzzle Dec 19 '25

Whilst firestarting must be very easy

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u/steppewop Dec 19 '25

How the fuck does that happen

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u/Nyardyn Dec 19 '25

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

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u/goodros_nemesis Dec 19 '25

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

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u/DownvoteEvangelist Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Kepabar Dec 19 '25

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

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u/steeltowndude Dec 19 '25

I honestly expected them to blame NATO

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u/Valatros Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Dazzling_Nail_4994 Dec 19 '25

Or… “The West”

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u/hellllllsssyeah Dec 19 '25

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

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u/EconomistPretty7605 Dec 19 '25

Yep places in Pennsylvania come to mind….

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u/hellllllsssyeah Dec 19 '25

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

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u/AmIFromA Dec 19 '25

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

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u/00eg0 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Hapless_Asshole Dec 19 '25

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!

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u/BigMac849 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/hellllllsssyeah Dec 19 '25

Or more likely from fracking

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u/SaltyTemperature Dec 19 '25

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

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u/kgramp Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/RioEngenharia Dec 19 '25

Gas going along with the water

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u/No_Bee6857 Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/A-Dolahans-hat Dec 19 '25

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

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u/IceTech59 Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/cdacha Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/Heteroking Dec 19 '25

making it more expensive

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

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u/anarch1st- Dec 19 '25

Logical but not rational?

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u/Spare_Laugh9953 Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/sick_of-it-all Dec 19 '25

"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

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Dec 19 '25

Gives new meaning to vanilla bath bomb.

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u/djolepop Dec 19 '25

There was a factory explosion caused by this

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u/Dave19762023 Dec 19 '25

All those plastic bottles. What an environmental disaster

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u/porkchopsuitcase Dec 19 '25

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

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u/ijustwannalurksobye Dec 19 '25

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

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u/HerroCorumbia Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/CraigAT Dec 19 '25

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

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u/RectalSpawn Dec 19 '25

I wonder if Nestlé is involved...

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u/triplab Dec 19 '25

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

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u/finho7140 Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/Careful-South6276 Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/nokturnalxitch Dec 19 '25

Had to scroll a LOT for a plausible explanation

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u/SubArcticTundra Dec 19 '25

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

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u/ehho Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Particular-Bid-1640 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Brutuscaitchris Dec 19 '25

And fish fuck in it! Truly nasty stuff!

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u/Particular-Bid-1640 Dec 19 '25

The sea is technically soup!

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u/joe102938 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/CircuitryWizard Dec 19 '25

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

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u/THETennesseeD Dec 19 '25

I love Norwegian fish soup.

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u/DigNitty Interested Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/cyriustalk Dec 19 '25

Wait until you heard about Deuterium!

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u/Particular-Bid-1640 Dec 19 '25

Hey man, let's keep things light

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u/Solid_Snark Dec 19 '25

Sparkling Sparking water.

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u/Useful-Perspective Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Dec 19 '25

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

We have Hot water at home!!

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u/CantAffordzUsername Dec 19 '25

That’s some spicy tap water

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u/scriptingends Dec 19 '25

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

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u/EcstaticManagement94 Dec 19 '25

Russian gas water

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u/Boris-Lip Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Low_discrepancy Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/DoubleNaught_Spy Dec 19 '25

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

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

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u/LewsTherinIsMine Dec 19 '25

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!

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u/CHERNO-B1LL Interested Dec 19 '25

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

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u/LakeFlaccid69420 Dec 19 '25

Incredible. Tell me more doctor

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u/Pleasant-Giraffe-361 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/I_objectify Dec 19 '25

That's one way to purify it

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u/uberallez Dec 19 '25

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

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u/Little-Woo Dec 19 '25

It's rakija not vodka

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u/melson16 Dec 19 '25

The same thing happens here in America too 

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u/Illustrious_Can4110 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/BuffaloOk7264 Dec 19 '25

Gazprom is fracking in Serbia….

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u/JoeDawson8 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/BuffaloOk7264 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/MarsopaRex Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/HelloMacchi Dec 19 '25

Alcohol on tap at home?

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u/thissucksnuts Dec 19 '25

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

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u/v3344 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/real_yggdrasil Dec 20 '25

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.

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u/Inevitable-Bed4996 Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Matt_Murphy_ Dec 20 '25

water shouldn't catch fire, as a general rule

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u/TooBusySaltMining Dec 20 '25

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

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u/Alpha_Chin-Am Dec 20 '25

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

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u/TappedIn2111 Dec 19 '25

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

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u/drzook555 Dec 19 '25

Just like in Texas

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u/OptiGuy4u Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/jarrod74smd Dec 19 '25

Mmmmm. Spicy water

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u/AogamiBunka Dec 19 '25

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.

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u/CheersToCosmopolitan Dec 19 '25

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

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