Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
Various international tap waters can give you some intestinal distress because one isn't used to the local flora/fauna in the water. (This includes people traveling to the US from other lands.).
Those of us who live in the hinterlands/flyover country will be quick to assure you that any intestinal problems may be far less often due to flora/fauna than the disoolved and suspended minerals in the water.
I can think of a couple of towns in West Texas where the water is "gypy' enough to give you the "Green Apple Quick Step" or the dreaded "Spring Calf Scours".