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There are lots of things dissolved in our water that give it "flavour", but the goal of all utilities is to minimize this as much as possible. Some water objectively tastes better than others, and a common segment of local drinking water conferences is a taste test. That said, for normal people usually the water they prefer is what their palette is used to. Someone who grew up drinking groundwater with very high alkalinity and pH will prefer that over surface water that is actually more "pure". Similarly, if you normally drink water from a private well that you don't add chlorine to, you likely dislike the taste of "city water".

The common offenders for bad tasting water are excessive chlorine and some specific organic compounds. Both of these flavours can be removed using a granular activated carbon filter (e.g., a Britta), but you can actually remove the chlorine by just letting your water sit in the fridge for a while.

Water is lightly sweet and a tiny bit astringent.

I can't describe the taste but if I can tell the difference between spring, purified, and distilled, there's a taste.

Just letting you know I scrolled right past this message after I saw that biography of text, yet I wasted my time to write this comment lol

I don't drink bottled water simply because all I can taste is the plastic of the bottle, filtered water is so much better