Our water (Indiana) is OK to piss in, but I wouldn't want to drink it.
Perhaps all that pissing in the water hasn't helped.
(obviously you are referring to its use as in the toilet).
Both actually. Fewer people pissing anywhere would be better, in my book.
I am extremely sensitive to minerals of various sorts. I can't really taste much else (thank god for textures), but I have a very strong repulsion to lime, chalk (even some ceramics) and compounds of sulphur, which are plentiful in our well or lake water supplies. I can't even cook with our native water, because the minerals will spoil the dish.
I use softened, RO water (for like thirty years, now) exclusively for drinking, cooking, teeth brushing, coffee or tea making, etc. and I sometimes have to hold my breath for long periods in the shower. I actually prefer chlorinated city water, because it overwhelms my olfactory sense and masks the scent of other offensive compounds when I shower. I prefer the headache of chlorination to the nausea and scrubby feeling of these particular minerals.