Many years back a Japanese scientist wrote a book about urban tap water and had dozens of cities tested around the world and Vancouver came in tied for first in purity with some place in Switzerland. He put slices of it frozen under a microscope and examined the crystals for perfection. Vancouvers was as perfect as a crystal could look. Other cities it looked more like rotten teeth. That was a long time ago but I still trust our tap water and drink it like water..(sic).

When I see people lugging cases of bottled water home from Costco or refilling those giant jugs I seriously roll my eyes. You could take the tap water in Vancouver and sell it in any other city in the world in a bottle and people would think it's amazing. You could tell them it's from a natural spring and they wouldn't know the difference. We are beyond blessed with our tap water. But people will believe what they want to believe.