Today hundreds of millions of people depend on water from utility companies which put various chemicals in the water for various reasons. Sadly, many of them have never known the refreshment that can only come from a cold glass of well water straight out of the ground not a minute before. Some people are even afraid of well water, thinking that it will be full of contaminants, completely ignorant that many wells produce cleaner water than they could buy in a Poland Springs bottle. In fact, this kind of water is so clean that almost every drop of tap water in New York City is piped directly from the Adirondack Mountains. As a result, New York City has some of the best drinking water of US cities.