Others don't trust their water even if it technically meets EPA standards.

Less "don't trust the water", more "don't trust the EPA". And under this administration, who can blame them.

It's a shame that our options are "Lead and PFAS" or "Microplastics and probably PFAS" (not to mention the plastic waste itself and the wild inefficiencies of transporting water by fucking truck of all things)

Atleast its not like from the toilet.

Water? Like from the toilet?

We use bottles... But yes, generally you can just drink your tap water.

I'm from Austria. My tap water comes from the mountains. ⛰️ 💦

Wait, there’s arsenic and the customer has to filter it out? What do the water company do then?

I mean, yeah of course, but preparing camping supplies and going for groceries seems not quite the same thing.

As a European, being longer than maybe a weekend cut off from external help (or the general concept of a natural disaster as a possible occurence) is not really a thing. Worst that happens is some flooding near rivers and the coast on rare occasions.

Dubious water quality is also not a problem people have to deal with on a frequent basis, at least in germany. You can give your landlord major shit if you don't have access to proper, clean water. (If you own your place it is your problem of course)

I grew up in a farmhouse that had contaminated well water. We got all of our drinking and cooking water from jugs. It fucking sucked because it was inconvenient as hell

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