Sounds like total BS to me and is probably rooted in the lobbiests for the bottled water industry that puts tap water in plastic bottles, to sell for many times the cost of the same amount of water people can get from their own taps.
I understand using bottled water if you live in an area where the water has a high mineral content or foul taste.
I live in an area that has great tasting tap water, but I still see people at the grocery buying jugs and large shrink-wrapped bundles of dozens of bottles of water.
Easy to identify them as lib/dems who have moved into my area. Not kidding, as I see them buying stuff like hummus, sushi, etc., instead of steaks, ribs, etc., like most Texans.
I don’t care what other people choose to buy to eat or drink, with their own money. It’s really not anyone else’s business. It’s also a pretty unkind way to judge another’s politics. I buy bottled water and I enjoy sushi ( lived in Japan for 3 years) but I assure you I am no liberal. Making assumptions based on what’s in someone’s grocery cart does seems like a poor way to judge a person’s character, even for a Texan ( by the way I’ve lived there too)