As a European who has visited the US: you put a lot more chlorine in your tap water. It smelled and and tasted like our swimming pool water to me. Edit: and y

As a European who has visited the US: you put a lot more chlorine in your tap water. It smelled and and tasted like our swimming pool water to me. Edit: and your swimming pool water had if course even more chlorine, much more then I'd expect to find in Europe.