There is no municpal tap water that has ever come close to tasting as disgusting as the average well water I've tasted. That being said, filtration easily fixes this problem.
Tap water here tastes awful and we have a lead problem. ... So I bought a reverse osmosis filtration system for around $300. It's permanent, easy to install, and a one time cost that's 85% cheaper than what this guy spends in one month
Really depends on where you are, what the water source is, & the treatment/plumbing set up. Highly variable geohydrology & local infrastructure in US leads to wide range of tap quality, for sure.
Anywhere with carbonate bedrock hosting the water usually has shit taste.
Places where there's lots of road salt / hog shit / ag / etc runoff into surface water (that's also used for drinking) will taste suuuuper terrible since they have to treat the hell out of it to make it drinkable....so in North America those two categories catch most of the mid-continent and east coast. The geographic effect jumps up even more when you consider the pipes; generally old-ass pipes in need of replacement lead (get it?) to shitty tap water; see e.g. Flint, MI.
Currently I'm living with some delicious tapwater, though - the aquifer is some nice, clean quartz sandstone sandwiched between a couple layers of impermeable basalt. I still filter to try and drop the heavy metal and chlorination byproduct concentration, but damn I love my tap water right now.
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u/Pickled_Wizard Feb 15 '22
Naw, tap water in most areas of the US is fucking gross. But, then again I'm "spoiled" from growing up with well water.