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Some people don't have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.
Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it'll taste great in the morning.
Some people don't have access to decent tasting tap water
Most people IMHO. Most places I've been where they claim that the tap water is potable, it either tastes like public pool or swamp. Except for Galveston who somehow made it taste like both with residents believing "It's OK"
The water at my office smells like chlorine. It's dreadful. I wouldn't even use it to make coffee, I fill up a nalgene at home and bring that in. My home water is well water and tastes a tad high iron, just the way I like it. (HOA regularly tests the water and it's always within legal limits, yay.)
ITT: people with crumbling infrastructure under a corporate oligarchy discuss why they are unhealthy.
What would you suggest we do? Take precious profits away from stakeholders and repair shit? Sounds like communism to me buddy. Up against the wall.
Good thing access to clean drinking water isn't a human right. Oh wait.
Luckily the US of A has a sneaky trick called not ratifying shit and refusing to be held to the same standard as "third world countries" while saying they are superior.
Seriously the US actually hasn't ratified most of the treaties that govern how warfare or being a functioning society.
When I grew up I didn’t like drinking water. I thought it tasted bland compared to all the sugary drinks. Looking back, I think our family struggled with sugar addiction without knowing it. We consumed quite a lot of sugar in my childhood.
It wasn’t until my teenage years I questioned the amount of sugary drinks I consumed. So I just cut off all sugary drinks and embraced the way of the water.
Today I’m a proud water enjoyer.
Same but I didn’t turn around til my 20s. Educate yourself and your loved ones! Sugar is highly unnecessary, especially in liquid form!
Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.
I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.
Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.
Growing up, I didn't like water either because I didn't like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN'T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.
Basically they're people who got caught in the food industries propaganda.
They might consciously know they need regular water, but their body is now craving sugar with every sip. If it's missing, it feels wrong.
Sugar needs to be much more regulated, especially for kids... Adults may be responsible enough to handle it but without regulation the industry will run wild and make everyone addicted.
My friend from work doesn't drink water. Like. At all. She drinks Diet coke like all day. She's in her 50's and has a ton of health issues. I don't think that's a coincidence.
I grew up drinking well water that tastes amazing. When I moved from home I have found that every other water tastes horrid (with a few exceptions). I can drink bad water when it is really cold. I know drinking water is good for me, I do force myself to drink it, but no where near as much as that well water.
I grew up on well water that smelled like sulfur and was sometimes unsafe to drink.
The water fountains at school were HEAVILY chlorinated.
Water just wasn't really an option growing up or if it was you had to mask the taste with Koolaid or something.
I don't crave it. I'm not in the habit of drinking plain water. I have a zero water system now and I drink it a lot more but some people either have an access issue or never developed the habit due to similar factors as me.
I wondered this for a long while, but I've realized that I'm in a pretty privileged position. Where I live (the Netherlands) the tap water is not only drinkable, it's actually almost indistinguishable from mineral water. Certainly for me at least. I'm not much of a traveller, but when I was in Oostende in Belgium I remember the tap water was absolutely vile. It was (or at least tasted like) desalinated seawater. Instead of hydrating and refreshing it tasted stale and salty. If that was the only water I knew I probably would be drinking more refreshing stuff like ice tea or cola all day as well. When I got back to the Netherlands my first glass of tap water tasted like heaven.
"Because I'm not poor! I got all the water I need from food".
My boomer dad, constantly suffering from health issues because of poor hydration. Does not help that the only liquids he consumes are beer and wine.
Water? That's where fish fuck in.
That was way funnier before you got morbidly obese.
Grew up on well water, it tasted funny. Most water I tried to drink was from water fountains, tasted like copper. First bottled water I drank was Deja Blue, and it tasted like hose water. So I thought all water tasted like ass.
I didn't get that water could taste good until I drank actual bottled spring water. Now I have nice water filters that make my tap taste just fine, and I know what brands of water to buy if I need to.
Some people live or grew up in areas where the water source tastes weird or gross, so they might have a mental association of water with a negative quality. Some people remark that water is generally flavorless. I've heard this from other people on the spectrum. I prefer water with some kind of flavor. Water without a flavor is only satisfying on a hot day or if you've been working out. This is possibly a side effect of growing up with a high sugar diet where you expect everything to taste sweeter. So it might be attributed to the sugar industry's "fat makes you fat, sugar is fine" lasting effect on the populace.
Once I bought a brita filtered pitcher that I keep in the fridge, it became easy to keep a water bottle around me and stay hydrated.
Where I'm at, the tap water not only tastes bad, it'll also give you the flying shits for days, and beer is cheaper than bottled water..
I think many people simply prefer a tastier option than "flavorless."
People who don't drink water make me unnaturally irritated. It's just so crazy. "I don't breathe air because don't really like the taste".
I know I sound like an asshole. It shouldn't matter to me what you do. It's your body and your life.
Still...c'mon, like what? It's water. It brings life. It's the original thirst quencher. It's what your body needs. Just drink it.
Ive seen people who grew up with flavored drinks because the parents were basically lazy or something and now as adults are simply conditioned to not drink anything without artificial flavor because to them artificial flavor is the normal baseline
Living off flavored drinks and craving that sugar is stimulation you don’t get from plain water.
They have rabies perhaps
I don’t like drinking water because the fact is you don’t need that much of it. When I was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, walking 12 hours per day, I drank at most 3 liters, plus a pint for breakfast and a pint for dinner. So that’s 1 gallon total for extreme physical activity. In such a day I would pee maybe 3 or 4 times.
In normal life in an arid climate my water needs are about 1-1.5 liters. But this can entirely be covered by coffee or tea, a fizzy water, and maybe a beer or bedtime tea.
The only reason for the hydration obsession is excessive salt intake. Because salt and water are always a balancing act, excessive hydration will likely lead to salty snack cravings. If it didn’t we’d have a lot more cases of hyponatremia. The only serious side effect of being in the yellow pee club is kidney stones, but those are better prevented by lemon water and avoidance of spinach than excess hydration. I have no complaints of constipation or dry skin.
Drink when you’re thirsty. Eat when you’re hungry. Rest when you’re tired.
These days, I mostly drink water. Growing up, however, I hated it. The area I lived in had very mineral-heavy water and it just tasted bad. Took years after moving away for me to even try drinking plain water again.
This is our time to shine Hydro Homies!
It's probably not the reason for everyone but where I live, tap water has a slightly rancid taste and bottled water used to taste like it was mixed with bleach. I used to not drink water because I thought that all water tasted like that but then we got a cheap water cooler about four or five years ago and the water from it tastes much better. So, I've been drinking water from a water cooler ever since.
I can stand carbonated water and hate plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn't drink water but other beverages.
My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but "something special" like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.
While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can't understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.
So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.
Wait people don't like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you're thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I'm not thirsty, but once I am I drink.
Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn't drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.
Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.
tbh water was an acquired taste kind of thing for me, if you love fizzy drinks/pop drinking water can feel alien and take time getting used to
My husband hates drinking water because his parents only gave him water to drink when he was sick. Otherwise it was all juice and milk.
I dislike flat water, I love carbonated water with a drop of lemon juice.
I don't understand this either, but if you don't like plain water, there are ways to make it taste different. Squeezed lemon in water is delicious, fizzy water is nice, there's always Crystal Light, lol.
I love so many drinks but if I could only have one, iced water is it. It's the best drink of all and goes with every food.
It tastes gross
It was probably the last thing to change as I got older but for most of my life I hated to drink water cause it all tasted bad to me
iron and sulfur compounds in tap water, or even some more "neutral" ones that are even in bottled water (like carbonates and magnesium), can have a really revolting taste to people who are sensitive to them
I have a friend who is so sensitive to sulfur that she had to rinse her drinking cups with filtered water before using them, just to remove the traces left by washing with tap water from the area we lived in
don't let anyone tell you you're crazy or overreacting. also, give distilled water a try. no, it's not bad for you like people say–your highly acidic stomach is perfectly capable of handling the osmotic shift when drinking distilled.
I worked with someone who would never drink water. It was weird to me. I always preferred water because as a kid it was free at all schools I went to, allowing me to save half of my allowance. As an adult it still cheaper and very low calorie, practically zero calories.
It's not "practically zero", it's zero.
Hard to even know where to start: https://www.dhmo.org/
Microplastics are just the tip of the iceberg. At this stage most of our planet's water is almost indistinguishable from pure dihydrogen monoxide.