When I first travelled to Singapore in the late ’90s, I had called for bottled water at the hotel I was staying. I was pleasantly surprised when the attendant got me a normal bottle and told me it was perfectly safe to drink the tap water. When I moved here five years ago, I realised that the Aquaguard and Eureka Forbes water purifiers that were indispensable in most Mumbai kitchens, were almost redundant in Singapore, thanks to the absolutely safe potable water supplied by the Public Utilities Board.