Houston’s tap water is pretty good, so I drink it happily.
I grew up drinking well water–south of Pasadena, in fact. It was hard & the softener didn’t make it taste much better. We bought distilled water for our steam iron, but those were the days before people actually bought drinking water at the store.
If I had bad tap water, I’d filter it. Bottled water is a ripoff.
I voted “other.” I would drink your tap water, but we’re not supposed to drink the water from our taps at home. Too much iron that makes it taste bad, and I forget what other thing that’s actually unhealthy. The sad thing is that this property, along with the neighbors’ used to be a state park that people got spring water from, and the well company just picked a terrible spot to sink the well.
I don’t drink tap water, because the fluoride messes up my bodily fluids
Other: I drink tap water, but first I run it through a filter (in a pitcher), because otherwise it tastes like either a swimming pool, or slightly like a wet dog.
I’m in Florida (Orlando area) and totally agree! In Kentucky, I exclusively drank tap water, but since moving here I am only drinking bottled (or filtered), because the tap water tastes terrible. I would compare the flavor to the smell of a soured dish rag.
If you’ve got fish, check with your water district before doing this - chlorine does evaporate off like that, but more and more utilities are using chloramine, which does not evaporate off and needs to be chemically neutralized to be safe for the fish.
As for what I drink, most often, it’s Spigotto. Might as well give it a fancy brand name! 
Some tap water tastes fine, some not so good. The same with bottled water, but bottled tends to be more reliable. At home, I refill bottles with tap water and let them sit for at least 24 hours before drinking from them (I do the same with ice) because that gets rid of the chlorine taste.
At my mother’s house, there is no weird taste to the tap water so I drink it. At one job, we pooled our money together and bought a large water filter container. The tap water tasted just terrible but tested out as healthy. Running through the filter improved the taste.
The reason why you even have those reports is that municipal water systems are federally regulated and inspected.
Bottled water is not.
So while tap water might not taste so good in some cities, it’s generally safer than bottled water with regard to bacteria levels (and as long as the municipal authorities are doing what they’re supposed to do).
I don’t quite fit any of your poll options.
I do drink tap water (and a lot of it), but I very, very strongly prefer that it be filtered. On the rare occasion where I’m thirsty and the only water available is a water fountain (unfiltered), I’ll drink it, but only enough to take the edge off, so to speak, and not as much as I normally would.
This started shortly after college where I went for a run, came home all sweaty and really thirsty, and poured myself a glass of unfiltered tap water. As I started drinking it, I saw that there was a whole bunch of tiny white flakes of something in the water – it looked basically like large flakes of dandruff – which promptly grossed me out. I bought a water filter pitcher that afternoon.
I’ve moved halfway across the country since then, and there are no disgusting floating things in Chicago’s water supply, but the strong chlorine taste is pretty gross, so I don’t drink it unfiltered unless I have to.
I have refillable water bottles, so I don’t buy bottled water short of somehow getting caught unprepared and truly desperate – it’s nonsensically expensive (and wasteful) relative to tap water. Last time I did, was when the building manager said that the water would be turned off for an hour or so, which I figured would be two or three, and turned out to be close to eight. I’d put up some water the night before, but not enough, obviously.
I buy bottled water for the bottles and then reuse them for up to a month. At work I generally fill them up in the first stream I come across. Sometimes the water is a little green or brown but it usually tastes good with maybe a little dirt aftertaste. I keep telling myself the first time I get giardiasis I will stop but it’s been years and I haven’t had a problem.
I voted other. We drink tap water, but only after it has been run through a filter. My town has very, very hard water, and I don’t need kidney stones, thank you.
I drink delicious, unfiltered tap water straight from the beautiful Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
Other - I drink filtered tap water or bottled water. The tap water around here tastes nasty. During late summer when the lake turns over, I drink bottled water only. I won’t even get ice in sodas then.
I didn’t drink water at all for most of my life, until I discovered first well water, and then bottled water, and then filtered water. The tap water tastes like chlorine and chemicals to me.
The cold water dispenser in my fridge is filtered tap water and we also have a Brita. Sometimes I drink plain tap water as well. Whichever’s closest.
That’s because you’re old and un-hip, grandma. 
I just started a temp job at a place where every other person has had kidney stones recently - I normally drink tap water, but I’m thinking I might not drink tap water at work - I don’t need kidney stones, either. Calgary does have very hard water, but this seems like a suspiciously high rate of stones.
I drink tap water everywhere except at the beach (NC). There, the water has an oily, yellow scum on the surface, so we buy a couple of those big things of water and use it for everything.
Some city water is undrinkable, chlorine like a swimming pool, it seems like. It’s all well water in these parts, and very good.
Do you have a cite for this? I’m sorry to be blunt but I do not believe it.
Forget believing it or not - you are in fact aware that every single bit of water pretty much everywhere has probably been pee at one point or another? Where do you think treated water goes, Wonderland? I read once they’ve got a wastewater treatment filter in Singapore, I think? Anyway, it’s so good that the water that comes out of it is so pure it doesn’t taste like water, so they have to add trace minerals and stuff.
I am quite well versed on the hydrologic water cycle, thank you. I am also well aware that the trend in wastewater treatment is to produce water clean enough to be put back into the drinking water plant to be processed. I don’t just toss my copies of Civil Engineering magazine on a pile, I actually read the things when they come in the mail.
The part I take exception to is “the fact that in most areas …”. I don’t think that is so in “most areas”. A quick Google shows that 40% of U.S. supply isn’t even surface water.