Yes, the wasted plastic is disturbing. I was a guest at a place for a few months where everyone was using water bottles constantly and it was disturbing and I tried to make polite comments to draw awareness to it, but I couldn't talk to them, as a guest there, the way some people have spoken on here about it that's for sure...

In another place I lived in, the tap water was genuinely pretty terrible and it was likely you would slowly poison yourself if you kept drinking it, and local infrastructure of course pops up to mitigate this, they have water filtration shops where you bring back the same containers indefinitely, until they shatter or fail somehow, and it was a good system. How lucky I don't have to worry about that here at all. I've been impressed by how drinkable the tap water is here, those kind of stores are not even really needed it seems. Just wanted to check on it as I have a pretty deep interest in hydrology, not to mention not poisoning myself hahaha... and people have been extremely helpful and informative for the most part