The water in the US is chlorinated (at least where I was in Washington, DC). It smells and tastes really terrible.
Amazing tasting well water pumped directly from old glaciers turned into underground reservoirs is "water in the US."
Water so brown and contaminated you can't even drink it is "water in the US."
Using fluoride, chlorine, chloramine, is "water in the US." Desalinated water along coastlines that tastes as such. Streams and springs that are safe to drink from.
Having lived in the area for years I can say even througout the D.C. Metro area, you have different tasting water as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2242094/Chlorine-t... (apologies for poor source)