Hector in private message, says:


You mean you took a drink? No? Oh, then you didn't actually bet. Money. Mouth.

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Since I can't reply privately to Hector, I'll reply to him here.

Hector:

I'm not exactly sure what troubles you about the account of my conversation with the water company executive. It might be best to assume a modicum of good faith on his part and after all, it's not as though he could be considered uninformed about water-borne disease

No, I never drank straight from those reservoirs that I can recall, though I grew up swimming in them (as a trespasser) and probably ingested a fair bit of the water at various times.

I have drank a lot of water drawn straight out of New York City's reservoirs in the Catskills, as well as plenty of other slightly dubious places, that perhaps we might call "front country" sources, without filtering or treatment. I don't advise for or against.

Backcountry sources would be a different question.