Godfather

I find this an interesting topic.

Now I've travelled pretty far and wide for my age and know a touch about what drinking water is like in other places. I found the water in Paris godawful, London not much better. I once was in Arizona and the water was obviously heavily chlorinated.

However, I dont find water here tastes like anything at all. Clean and clear. I understand that may be largley because I was born here, (and I'm a proud Vancouverite) and water tastes as I know it to. Yet listening to a study recently, Vancouver water is reportedly among the safest and cleanest in the world for a multitude of reasons (heavy rainfall, closed off watersheds, mountains and the works) yet compaired to other places in Canada, over 45% still would rather have bottled water, several percent higher than other places in the country. I understand that in other places where it may not be the same, but here, there is no legit concurn...so why do we do it?

Bottles for water take 1000 years to decompose, yet even in a city where the citizens can feel perfectly safe with cool clean water, millions chose store bought, and even those of you not in a city so trustworthy, I have heard little of real concurns about safety. Does the water actually taste bad the entire time even to your mouth that has drank the water for years? Conveinience aside, why if any of you take bottled water first, do you do so?