Eric-
The Peru example has nothing to do with "EnviroPC". If you stop disinfecting your water supply, this is stupidity. It happens on both sides of the environmental debate, unfortunately.
Generally, in the US good tap water is a better, cheaper, and safer solution than bottled water. It is a fact, and it took massive public infrastructure investment to get there. There is a place in this world for bottled water, undeniably, tap water just does not taste good sometimes, sometimes it is not available, and water supplies do go bad from time to time. And then there is Flint, MI.
Filtering tap water is another option. by the way Brita is probably one of the low tech solutions, you may look into an inline water filtering system for your house if you don't like the taste of your tap. Just don't forget to change cartridges at scheduled intervals. I have not noticed tap water at Squaw tasting bad yet, but it always comes out of the filtering station. Of course the new Squaw policy is a brilliant way to make money for them by selling expensive single-use "refillable" bottles to the customers. That they sell it as an environmentally friendly gesture is a marketing coupe-de-grace.
As for the interconnect, it's not an environmental issue at all. It's closely tied with the the village expansion. If that happens, the gondola will happen almost no matter what the environmentalists say, if it does not, there is no way KSL would sink several million dollars into the interconnect.