I feel like I could've easily been one of those people if I had been raised on the tap water from my town, which was absolutely vile (We received a non-zero num

I feel like I could've easily been one of those people if I had been raised on the tap water from my town, which was absolutely vile (We received a non-zero number of letters over the years from the county or federal government proudly proclaiming, "Good news! The water in your town is no longer dangerously toxic!"). However, my father hated the town water so much that he paid for gallons of water to be delivered to our house from a cleaner source. A poorer family might not have been able to afford that luxury, and grown up thinking all water tasted like sewage. I received a lot of ribbing from my friends during childhood for having a water-cooler in our house. But our water tasted good.