Europeans (or non-Americans), are you drinking carbonated water?

[Bob]

I remember hearing something about Europeans kind of looking down on tap water from the faucet.  And I remember hearing they drank mineral water but I'm wondering if that's carbonated mineral water.  So if you're drinking water, would you naturally go to fizzy carbonated water (which might be mineral water, or might be called mineral water in general even if it's just carbonated and not really mineral water)?

Which might mean people just like the fizz.  Europeans are drinking fizzy water.  Americans are drinking fizzy soft drinks.

[outin]

I remember hearing something about Europeans kind of looking down on tap water from the faucet.  And I remember hearing they drank mineral water but I'm wondering if that's carbonated mineral water.  So if you're drinking water, would you naturally go to fizzy carbonated water (which might be mineral water, or might be called mineral water in general even if it's just carbonated and not really mineral water)?

Which might mean people just like the fizz.  Europeans are drinking fizzy water.  Americans are drinking fizzy soft drinks.

It may shock you to hear that Europe in a very diverse place with no one set of customs and habits or products.

I personally prefer my vater straight from the tap, but if I do drink mineral water I will choose something with as little fizz as possible. But yes, our mineral water is carbonated water with added salts or something ridiculously expensive from Switzerland that is supposed to be natural...
Then you can buy bottled water which is plain water either carbonated or not.

I hate sweet soft drinks, so in addition to plain water it's coffee or tee, please. But theh are quite popular here as well. In my country people even drink milk instead or water and with no added fizzle