Wasn't there a place called Flint somewhere that had toxic city water? City water tastes terrible, we get ours from our pond, I like it.

When I was a kid there was a duck hunting outfit on the Missouri River. They had a shallow sand point well. When mixed with whiskey, the water would turn grey. The Ol’ boys would always sing: “Grey whiskey grey whiskey, grey whiskey I cry, if I don’t get grey whiskey I think I will die”. lol

Most bottled water comes from a municipal water system. Especially the cheaper 24 and 30 packs.

I've never considered drinking water straight from the tap as unusual. Always had good municipal/community tap water.
Years ago a cousin came out visiting from Michigan. As soon as we got to my place he asked if he could get a glass of water, I promptly went over to the sink and filled him up a glass and handed it to him, he looked at me as though I had two heads. I had to explain to him that drinking our tap water was just fine; he was in disbelief.

what I have noticed is , every late summer the municipal water would start to have a sulfur smell and i called about it once and the guy said we are going to start flushing lines next week , it should get better .

what I am not seeing is near as much line flushing , where they go out to fire hydrants around town at specific points and put a big 5 inch hose on and let it run into the street

it was generally the last weeks of September first weeks of October or around then.

budgets what they are , they may be trying less flushing as it costs labor to watch it so maybe it tastes off longer
jus a thought , ours hasn't changed , a week or two late summer sulfur smell then good again I htink they are still flushing in my town.

also there have been a number of news stories talking about water issues and that makes people think bottled is better.

I buy a few cases of bottled a year but they are to keep in the truck for working in heat or hunting.

otherwise I drink tap

wife buys some jugs of water for tea and coffee at the store , half the time I fill them back up with tap and let her think they just last a really long time. i think she knows but doesn't say anything.

The municipal water here tastes good. I can’t think of a good reason to buy bottled water aside from when traveling.

Anyone else have a dislike for water or other beverages that are in a plastic bottle?

The wife is on a health kick. She went out and bought a Berkey water filter. Tastes way better than our tap water.

I wouldn’t know about a conspiracy but look into the origin of municipalities putting fluoride in our water. If I recall it’s a byproduct of fertilizer and they needed a place to unload it so they sold it as helping reduce cavities. Stuff is poisonous

We make a couple trips each week to fill up water jugs at the local grocery store. It's filtered by RO, UV. Our well water tastes terrible. I tested it a few years ago as did a couple of water softener people. Their results pretty much confirmed mine.

So are the forever chemicals in our high tech clothing, non-stick cookware, plastic utensils, and plastic bottles that we rely on to stay hydrated.

Michigan

Have you ever gotten sick from bad water? While vacationing in China ten years ago, we were on a small ship on the Yantzee River. I got very ill from having a mixed drink made from ice. The ship drew its water from the river and filtered it. Didn't kill the tummy virus, however. Then a few years ago we were in Viet Nam and the same thing happened. Spent several days in the hotel following both attacks.

I have worked on many towns municipal water systems. If your not on a well I'd install a filter.

When I was a kid there was a duck hunting outfit on the Missouri River. They had a shallow sand point well. When mixed with whiskey, the water would turn grey. The Ol’ boys would always sing: “Grey whiskey grey whiskey, grey whiskey I cry, if I don’t get grey whiskey I think I will die”.

Original words are "Rye Whisky, Rye Whisky, Rye Whiskey I cry, If I can't get Rye Whiskey I think I will die!"