Stop drinking cheap vodka. I corrected it for you Very true. Get something like Grey Goose if you're going to do the vodka thing. I suggest a mixed drink if you can't stomach straight alcohol; A Sex on the Beach, Fuzzy Navel, or a Screwdriver would probably be a better drink. As for the whole water thing, I don't blame you. Bottled water tastes absolutely nasty. Not only are you paying for tap water (bottled water generally is tap water), but it's filtered through stuff like Coal, and put in a plastic bottle -- giving it that lovely plastic flavor. As for tap water itself, if you live in a city, there are a lot of additives as well as the fact that the water travels through metal pipes. If you get well water, you're really getting some full-flavored stuff there. The best water I've ever had is from the well at my grandmother's house. The well is less than 20 feet deep and the water is ice cold and the flavorless. (oddly enough, she lives uphill from a swamp. ^^)