Originally Posted by
dedhed
I read that with some interest since my school years were spent in West Texas and I spent some time at Texas Tech in the Lubbock area, also mentioned. From the 70's-80's You didn't drink the tapwater in most places unless you absolutely had to, and we always knew even back then that the mineral content was unhealthy, the high fluoride additives and inadequate processing almost as bad. "Hard water" to begin with, and a resistance against allocating the resources to truly deal with it.
That guy quoted, "the president of the Grassland Water Supply Corporation", is emblematic of "the Texas thing" that's been a problem for decades.