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Hawai'i is one place you will never find restaurants serving lemons with water. And very few people use water filters, such as Britas. The tap water in the islands is so good that they just don't need it! In fact, most people in the islands prefer the taste of Hawai'i's tap water to that of bottled water.
Much of Hawai'i's tap water comes from aquifers, which are filled with rainwater that percolates through porous volcanic rock. This natural filtration is what gives the water such purity. We are definitely blessed to have such high quality water - and an abundance of it!
This may sound strange, but one of the things I missed the most when I came to LA for college was the tap water from back home.
For those of you not from Hawai'i: When you travel to the islands, do not buy bottled water - just drink from the tap! :)
I have never been to Hawaii before, but it is interesting to know that their tap water it better than bottled water. I am from Saipan, also an island in the middle of Pacific Ocean. Although Saipan is known for its purity in nature and clean ocean, our tap water is undrinkable. Because Saipan doesn't have any volcano or river, the tap water comes from the ocean after the reverse-osmosis treatment. So the tap water still has taste of salt and lime in it that makes it undrinkable. Although I think that Saipan is still more pure in nature in terms of development, tap water is not.
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