I am no authority on anything, but I believe it safe to say that water is what we aught to drink.
Man tends to live excess, and taste is no exception.
I believe that humanity has reached far beyond credulity in the exploitation of natural resources in the quest for all things sweet and tasty. With excesses in all things, from food to transport to drugs and pleasure, from accumulation of wealth to indifference to the suffering of others, Man, on the whole, is the most intelligent and yet stupid creature.
In fact, in the history of life on earth, species longevity is inversely proportional to intelligence. In other words, the less intelligent a species, the longer that species avoids extinction.
In our efforts to serve the profit motive, we destroy species, ecosystems, natural resources of every kind, water resources, all life in the oceans, the habitat of virtually all animals, the quality of the air and atmosphere and the prospect for a future for our race.
We accustom ourselves to things we aught not and then struggle to rid ourselves of the craving for them when we discover that these things are sapping our life.
By destroying the quality of natural water ways, we require filtration systems to provide drinkable water, and in the process we eliminate the key constituents which provide essential nutrition.
As water passes through the natural process from rain to table, it collects minerals which feed the plants we eat, which in turn provide those minerals to us in bio-available form.
Our foods are without these essential nutrients and so is our water and we are much the poorer for it.
Nevertheless, water is the only suitable substitute for the rubbish we drink today in my opinion.
