Okayyy! So this is true for many of the upper class suburban white people who hoard cases of water like this but for the poor and marginalized it’s because we literally have lead and radioactive materials in our water
what i am learning by these comments is that americans utterly loathe sink water but are also unwilling to use a filter so the solution is to constantly buy plastic bottles of water for every day single use. never mind the heinous waste, cost and microplastics lol
There definitely is a lot to be said about consumerism and our habits but we cannot ignore the fact that large populations in this country’s only access to “clean” water is cases of plastic bottles (which aren’t even clean bc microplastics 🙃)
the UK has a much milder and less variable climate than the extremes experienced on most of the north american continent. except for the coasts, our seasons are much more severe