My parents waste so much fucking money on bottled water. They scream at me when they see me drinking from the tap and scolded me when I told them I drink water exclusively from the tap in college in another state (I’ll have soda and Red Bull occasionally and I’ll drink bottled water if my metal carry bottle runs out and I walk into a business that sells bottled water)

We do not live in a lesser developed country. You can reasonably expect to not get sick if you drink from the tap in the United States. Yet they repeatedly say that tap water is unsafe to drink.

To be fair to my father he did live in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1993 when an outbreak of cryptosporidium occurred and he got sick. I can see why he doesn’t trust tap water after that. However, I view it as a result of incompetence on the part of the water authority in Milwaukee at the time and permanently shunning all tap water shouldn’t be the result.