Reply #3: I filter my water. You want to know why?

[Kagemusha]

Probably not.

But I'll say it anyway: because a lot of tap water may be the equal of bottled water in safety, but it certainly isn't in taste. If I didn't have filtration, or I had to get something quick on the move, I'd use bottled water, which, as the name implies, comes in a bottle, and so has a certain immediate convenience to it. I wouldn't want to use it for normal drinking at home, and I don't have to, but this idea that it is MASS MARKETING DECEPTION is really stupid. No, it's people having a choice between trusting posts like yours or their lyin' taste buds.

Trying to make people believe that their taste buds are liars and that they've simply been hypnotized into blind obedience to bottled water is, in and of itself, pathetic marketing.