Same. Huge water slut here.

I was this person for ages. Our tap water had a taste growing up, and all the water fountain water in school tasted like pennies. I assumed all plain water was disgusting. My first bottled water was Dasani, so yeah, more shitty water. I assumed all bottled water was just as gross as all the other water I had.

As an adult, I had to transition off of soda to flavored sparkling water. Then, from that, to flavored still water. Now, I can drink plain water. Most people don't even try to adjust their taste buds.

I'm one of those people. Plain water just doesn't satisfy my craving most of the time.

Especially in hot weather when im active I can literally drink myself sick on "plain" water and still feel the need to drink more.

Add just about any type of flavoring (even in less than recommended amounts) and suddenly I can drink reasonable amounts of water and feel satisfied.

Acid reflux.

It depends on where you live, Tapwater at my dads place is great, tapwater where I live is like a swimming pool.

Depends on where you are and what the source is. If the tap water isn't filtered, and the only bottled water is in plastic bottles, I'll take a flavoured drink of some kind over it because I hate the taste that gets left behind by the plastic.

Even a slice of lemon?

I used to be that way before getting into the habit of drinking water a couple years ago. I think a lot of it is just being used to drinking stuff with sugar, such that one's tastes have long since adapted to that and then you notice and are disgusted by the lack of said sweetness in the water. I remember water seeming to have a sort of bitterness to it that went away after awhile when I stopped drinking sweet tea all the time and made myself drink water.

But fish fuck in it, don't you know?

I have often made the experience that when I'm thirsty, drinking pure water will not help it, but somehow make it worse. Drinking juice or literally anything else though (except coffee, alcohol, ...) does improve it.

I once lived somewhere where the tap water was undrinkable. Ironically on the side of a fucking mountain so you’d think it would be good water.

Apparently that particularly area has naturally high levels of arsenic in the water and higher than normal cancer rates especially stomach cancer. And I lived in a small town on the edge of a national forest so it wasn’t industry polluting water, it was naturally polluted water if you can believe that.

Now where I live, 20 mins away, the spring water is so good you could bottle it.

Both places are untreated well water - the current spot the well draws from the spring.