Tap water (aka Government water) is different form place to place. When it tastes like garbage, one has to buy private sector water.
We have Baltimore City water - best in the world!
What gets me is this - at a local college, they eliminated drinking fountains (probably terrified of "lead" lawsuits) and but up signs - "Bottled drinking water is available in vending machines" - @ 1.25 a pop. In desperation once, I purchased one and read the content - "City of Dallas municipal water supply" -so I paid 1.25 for Texas water. Cool?
Also, all these people running around with bottles of room temperature water remind me of babies clasping their "botties".