You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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My kitchen tap doesn't carry that flavour
Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.
People don't understand that they don't have to agree with a shower thought xD
True. Upvote if it is interesting, thought provoking, well thought out, educational, etc.
You don't have to agree with an opinion. But people don't get their own facts.
Nothing about a thought has to be factual.
When you make historical assertions it most definitely has to be.
"historical assertions" OP was probably shitting when posting this.
Have you never been in a natural body of water in the summer? Lakes and rivers are pretty cold, even in the hotter months.
It depends on where you live. In some places they can get reasonable with temps being around 60-80F.
Size matters too.
Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2'.
Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it's kind of an issue for infrastructure development.
Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.
Not necessarily? Icy water would have been rare, but even in the summer water from a stream or a lake is colder than the air, which is enough to make it refreshing. And well water can be very cold.
Water in streams, lakes, rivers, and springs is pretty much always a lot cooler than the air. Unless it's a very small pond or a puddle, water is pretty cool, especially if you go deeper than just the surface to take your water.
30°C air is hot as fuck, 30°C water is a perfect cold shower.
hot water is a relatively modern luxury. you probably have a living ancestor that remembers not growing up with easy, or any, access to hot water, just hurtfully cold, refreshing water.
I feel like most natural spring water is pretty cool. They didn't have refrigeration though, so this might be true for icy cold water?
Yeah, I bet they wished they had shade
Cold water is easy to heat if you know how to make fire. Most early humans probably knew how to make fire. Hot water, however, is difficult to cool without refrigeration.
Spring and well water is often cool. I don’t know about the water that comes down from the mountains. Does it retain it’s coolness when the snow melts and runs down into the valley?
Yes, it does. Fresh mountain spring water is very cool and refreshing. Some of it even runs down from glaciers and is nearly ice cold.
Hot water is pretty easy to cool. Just leave it in a vessel in a cool place and come back later.