What's more impressive is immediately jumping to the assumption that because bottled water is ~2,000 times more expensive than tap water, that it's at all bette

What's more impressive is immediately jumping to the assumption that because bottled water is ~2,000 times more expensive than tap water, that it's at all better. It's theoretically possible that your particular town's tap water comes straight from the devil's armpit, and has a generous helping of cyanide and arsenic in it, but in the vast, vast majority of the developed world, there is not a damn thing wrong with it.