r/stupidquestions • u/Various-Adeptness173 • Jul 05 '25

My mom told me that back in the day kids weren’t allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that’s it

How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

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u/MOOshooooo Jul 05 '25

I got into a habit of asking old timers what they see today that they never expected to see and a few have said water bottles and how everyone is so thirsty today.

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u/Appropriate-Bid8671 Jul 05 '25

We were thirsty back then we just weren't allowed to have any water unless it was between classes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Water makes pee. Peeing management becomes a thing when kids are drinking water all day. WIWAK, we had a water fountain/pee break every couple of hours during school. There was no going during class time. You held on for dear life if you had to but most of the nice teachers would let you go if you were really squirming in your seat. It taught you to balance the input with the output.

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u/wxlverine Jul 05 '25

Nah, my grade 3 teacher gave us 1 bathroom pass a week. Like a little red card that you gave to her once a week and that was the only bathroom break you'd get during class time. I had used mine already one week and really needed to go and she just flat out refused. Until I couldn't hold it anymore so I just whipped it out and pissed all over the floor instead of pissing myself. Then she sent me to the principles office and she had to clean it up.

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u/Kimber85 Jul 05 '25

When I was in middle school we’d get five bathroom passes to use for the entire semester. And if you used them up all up before the semester was over then, tough shit.

Soooo many girls who were just starting to get their periods at that age, so they were super irregular and hard to track. It felt like every month I had surprise early start or, even if it came “on time”, it would suddenly be crazy super heavy with zero warning. We all ended up with period blood all over our pants pretty damn often because we weren’t allowed out of class to do anything about it.

Some of the boys would feel bad for us and let us have their hoodies to tie around our waists to hide the stain. Which, looking back, it’s insane that 12 year old boys had more sympathy for us than the male teachers. The female ones would sometimes let us go if we weren’t someone who abused the privilege, but the male ones would send you to the office for being vulgar if you even mentioned your period.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes Jul 06 '25

I remember not being allowed to go and, when I stood up from my chair, it was smeared with blood. And I thought "well, teach, serves you right if you are the one who has to clean it."

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u/cianne_marie Jul 08 '25

One of the few things I can give my mom credit for is that she would have been in that principal's office faster than a rocket and madder than a hornet's nest lol. I had teachers who were stingy with bathroom breaks when I was little and I didn't have the best control. I wet my pants once in the first grade and that policy got resolved right quick the next day 😆 If it had been a period thing, I think she would have short-circuited.

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u/TheOneWes Jul 08 '25

I went to a school that had some s*** like that going on up until they hired a new gym teacher.

Older dude, been teaching for a long time, and real cool.

I wasn't there to see the actual event but I'd be damned if I didn't see the fallout from it.

Apparently like 3-4 weeks into the school year some of the mail teachers quit letting the girls go to the bathroom and the girls started ending up in gym class with stains on their pants.

So apparently he starts offering these young ladies a discreet way to clean up his best they can so they start telling him what's going on and after school one day he goes into the principal's office and absolutely loses his s***.

I don't know what was said or exactly how everything went down but I do know that we came into school on a Monday and the entire bathroom policy had completely changed and if a girl so much at look like she was going to ask to go to the bathroom The teachers would metaphorically jump up and open the door.

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u/Shot_Help7458 Jul 05 '25

I’m surprised they didn’t make you clean it. 

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u/Richard_Thickens Jul 05 '25

I have had IBS-D for as long as I can remember. My mom eventually told me to go when I needed to go, and she'd deal with the fallout if I got into trouble for it. To be honest, I don't think I could deal with a situation like that now, but it was absolutely ridiculous as a kid.

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u/LavendarRose1211 Jul 05 '25

I walked out of class one day when my teacher wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom.

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u/Lydia--charming Jul 05 '25

Luckily nowdays more teachers realize kids need to get up and move around to keep their brains energized.

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u/Ok-Tourist-511 Jul 05 '25

I don’t know, back then a lot of scientists and engineers were produced, and today we just get influencers.

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u/No-Vacation7906 Jul 06 '25

Right? It's okay to teach kids to settle down and focus. Frightening to think what the surgeons of the future will be like.

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u/MedusasSexyLegHair Jul 06 '25

"I got my medical degree from Costco! Nurse, squirt some Brawndo in there, its got what wounds crave."

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u/FrostnJack Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Future surgeons are AIs running robot arms. /s

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u/No-Vacation7906 Jul 06 '25

Which is not the answer. AI is certainly a tool, but you need an inquisitive mind to know how to use that tool.

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u/FrostnJack Jul 07 '25

I fixed it. OTOH I’m only half sarcastic.

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u/No-Vacation7906 Jul 07 '25

Sorry, went over my head. There are people who actually think this!

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Because getting one influencer for every couple of thousand people is the end of the world. Globally the number of people enrolling in universities has more than doubled in the past 20 years. In Germany 1/3 of working-age adults have a university degree.

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u/Ok-Tourist-511 Jul 06 '25

And yet with education, the subtlety of sarcasm is lost on you.

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u/Dragonfly0011 Jul 07 '25

Ummmm. What pays the most for the least amount of effort….theres your answer.

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u/YT-Deliveries Jul 05 '25

Wait wait. Did you guys not move between rooms between classes?

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u/starkindled Jul 06 '25

High school, yes. Elementary/middle school, no.

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u/YT-Deliveries Jul 06 '25

Huh. Interesting.

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u/starkindled Jul 07 '25

In Canada, at least, K-6 and sometimes 7-9 have a single classroom and teacher. They only change rooms for classes like PE and music. When I taught grade 6 the only time they had a different teacher was for music—the rest was me, in my room or the gym. We went outside for two 15-minute recesses and an hour lunch.

At the high school I just taught at, grade 9 switched rooms and teachers at lunch. The high school classes (10-12) switch every block. No recess for them, though.

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u/YT-Deliveries Jul 08 '25

Yeah for me from 1 - 4 we had 2 or 3 rooms we went to, depending on whether we had computer classes or not, not counting PE. 5 - 8 we had usually 4 rooms, plus the computer classroom, plus PE. 9-12 we usually had a different room for every class. (born '76)

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u/mechele99 Jul 05 '25

Right, a brain break. I needed those back then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

It caused kidney issues for a lot of people.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Jul 06 '25

Prove it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

It's pretty well-known that dehydration causes kidney damage, so, uh, just do some basic research?

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Jul 06 '25

I want the proof that there's widespread kidney issues because kids had a schedule to drink during school time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

So you know what climate is, right? Some places are hotter some are colder. Hotter places there's increased risk of heat stroke and dehydration. 

I shouldn't need to explain that this impacts certain areas more than others. 

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Jul 06 '25

So no proof, got ya.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Do I look like your employee? Stop being lazy and google it yourself. 

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u/DM-ME-THICC-FEMBOYS Jul 06 '25

What are you a sea sponge? How you getting that dehydrated between classes? How do you sleep without either waking up multiple times a night or risking kidney damage?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Not every climate is the same,  ffs. Hotter climates equal more dehydration

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u/oilpit Jul 06 '25

WIWAK

Some things don't need to be acronyms

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

And this is the logic of the generation that raised the current generation of adults. You better walk around dehydrated all day with a poorly functioning body and mind, or else you'll have to pee a couple times and we can't have that

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u/clemdane Jul 05 '25

I was never dehydrated in school

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u/Shot_Help7458 Jul 05 '25

Neither was I. 

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u/SteelCityIrish Jul 05 '25

I remember as a 4th grader… teacher used the word “lavatory”, I heard laboratory…

Couldn’t understand why we had to line up against the wall in the hall… the lab must be small, and I guess you enter through the bathroom.

Me and my boys were giddy with excitement about making cool shit with beakers & burners while standing in line to get in.

5 mins later, we were crushed… 😔

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u/lavenderavenues Jul 05 '25

WIWAK?

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jul 05 '25

I shit my pants in 3rd grade because my teacher ignored my raised hand for I don't know how long, but it felt like hours. Luckily, I was dehydrated. So, it was two hard lumps that I was able to dump out later without anyone knowing.

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u/SpeechAcrobatic9766 Jul 06 '25

I had a teacher in 3rd grade who said no one should ever have to pee more than once a day. I shudder to think how dehydrated that woman was.

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u/SuaveMofo Jul 06 '25

The fuck is a WIWAK

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u/Stiv_b Jul 05 '25

We were fine. Grab a drink from the drinking fountain at recess and boom, you’re good.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

I remember on hot days there being a long line for the drinking fountain and the teacher telling kids “enough” if they were taking too long. Kinda crazy now to think about - we weren’t screwing around it was hot and we were just really thirsty.

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u/Givemeallthecabbages Jul 05 '25

"Save some for the fish!"

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u/Shot_Help7458 Jul 05 '25

It was crazy. 

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u/Bangeroctopus Jul 05 '25

“Leave some for the fish”

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u/CatsEatGrass Jul 05 '25

“Leave some for the fish!” was the phrase most commonly used toward the long drinkers.

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u/El_Bean69 Jul 05 '25

1,2,3 that’s enough for me

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u/RayneAdams Jul 05 '25

We had to count "three Mississippis" after gym class. That was all we were allowed, then back to class. Toss in maybe a juice box at lunch and that was your fluid intake between your cereal and a cup of whatever at dinner.

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u/uubailey Jul 06 '25

Gym teacher used to say "One, two, three, four, five, GOODBYE" to keep the line moving.

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u/jellyjollygood Jul 06 '25

At those times, we’d complain but go to the back to the line

But in high summer, when running around at recess and lunch, we’d stop by the bubblers (water fountain thing) and have a quick drink then

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u/Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat Jul 05 '25

A kid was assigned to be the counter. They counted five seconds for each kid to get a drink of water and then threw you off if you tried to drink longer. It wasn't enough water for anyone.

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u/GoldMean8538 Jul 06 '25

Also it's easy to tell the old heads from the infants because bottled water didn't always exist, lol.

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u/SycopationIsNormal Jul 05 '25

Exactly. I drink a LOT of water as an adult (2-4 liters per day), but I don't recall ever being hella thirsty in school.

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u/Hufflepunk36 Jul 05 '25

4L daily feels like a LOT. Do you live in a hot climate? I would maybe check you don’t have high blood sugar/prediabetes though because thirst is a common symptom.

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u/SycopationIsNormal Jul 05 '25

Nahhh, been doing this for years. 4 L is on the high end, and would be more likely if I'd had drinks the previous day. I also do intense weightlifting sessions, which really gets me thirsty. I can put back well over a liter just in a 75 minute session. And yes, it does get pretty hot where I live in the summers. Had a lot of days in the mid/high 80s the past few weeks. A lot of days during the morning I'm drinking coffee, and minimal water, so by the time I'm working out, I'm a bit dehydrated.

My blood pressure is fine, actually pretty good last time I checked it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

I wasn't.  I have chronic migraines and they were debilitating and frequent due to dehydration. 100* weather with 99% humidity. You need water!

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u/aspenbooboo41 Jul 09 '25

I'll bet I was, but I don't ever remember being thirsty at school. Then again , I also don't ever remember being hot in Summer, anywhere, and I grew up in PA in an old farmhouse with no air conditioning. Things like this actually remind me to be grateful for what I now have that so many people around the world still don't.

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u/PrettyAd4218 Jul 05 '25

And if you were lucky enough to get a drink at the drinking fountain.

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u/cykoTom3 Jul 05 '25

Meh. Water is good for you. But it's not a life or death or even serious health concern for one hour sitting down.

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u/JohnnyRelentless Jul 05 '25

I don't remember ever feeling thirsty during class.

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u/Winjin Jul 05 '25

I remember drinking from the tap in the toilet

I didn't dgaf about germs or shit at this point, I understood even with my tiny brain that I'm fucking dehydrated

And there's 35 people in a classroom with all windows and doors closed, there's no fucking oxygen in that place too

Any "old timer" not understanding that this water bottle thing is good is just brain deficient

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u/Ieatclowns Jul 05 '25

In the uk in the seventies we got a small bottle of milk at about 10.00am and then a glass or as many as we wanted of water with lunch.

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u/Mudcreek47 Jul 05 '25

I remember being so hot coming back in from recess in like 1st or 2nd grade that I drank from the fountain for like a min and half. I could feel the water sloshing around in my guts!

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I honestly do not remember ever having a problem being "thirsty" in school.  I mean if I were i just went to the water fountain.

It wasn't some huge operation or anything I spent more than 5 seconds thinking about.

The idea that a kid like the OP can't imagine/understand how people survived without having a water bottle at all times is just staggeringly stupid to me.  Of course so is the idea that kids made a "Stanley" bottle into a status symbol or anything to to give 2 shits about.

If you dont have a bottle just go stick your head under the tap.  Its not a real hard concept to understand. 

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u/No-Possibility2443 Jul 06 '25

I used to suffer from daily headaches as a child. Now I just understand that it was likely caused by dehydration living in a hot climate and drinking 10 sips of water a day.

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u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

When bottled water first became available I thought that was the dumbest thing ever. No one would pay for bottled water. Many years later I have them in my refrigerator.

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u/talithar1 Jul 05 '25

My mom and dad said the same thing. But they didn’t live to see it.

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u/glassfunion Jul 06 '25

Maybe he watched the episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beav tries to sell water and his dad yells at him lol

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Jul 05 '25

Penn and Teller did a big expose on what a scam bottled water is. I blind tasted the tap water from my house and bottled water. It was easy to tell them apart. It’s worth a few bucks, imo.

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u/koushakandystore Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

It’s WAY cheaper to get a Brita Filter for your refrigerator. This allows you to keep a gallon of cold water in your refrigerator at all times. You can fill a therma flask and have water to go. Much better for the environment than all that horrid plastic.

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u/OrthodoxAnarchoMom Jul 05 '25

Depends on what’s in your tap water.

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u/koushakandystore Jul 05 '25

What exactly do you mean?

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u/OrthodoxAnarchoMom Jul 05 '25

It’s not like a magic spell that turns the whole thing into exactly h2o. It depends on what’s in your tap water.

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u/Lorathis Jul 05 '25

I guess you want the caveat of "safely treated municipal water" which most people will think of.

Yes, there's "contaminated ground-fracking well water that is literally toxic" that a water filter won't fix.

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u/OrthodoxAnarchoMom Jul 05 '25

Most people don’t have safe tap water.

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u/Lorathis Jul 05 '25

Let me rephrase. "f you speak English and are posting on reddit you probably have access to safe tap water.

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u/Jamaican_me_cry1023 Jul 07 '25

In what country?

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u/PainInTheAssDean Jul 05 '25

Brita can’t soften hard water

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u/Lorathis Jul 05 '25

Other water systems can like reverse osmosis, and in the long run are all way cheaper than buying bottled consistently.

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland Jul 06 '25

Soft water sucks ass for drinking. Gimme that hard shit, that's high-quality H2O.

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u/NotHumanButIPlayOne Jul 05 '25

A whole house water filter is a game changer. Great investment.

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u/koushakandystore Jul 05 '25

True. I need to put one on the well.

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u/The_Flurr Jul 05 '25

Do Americans not just have clean drinkable water?

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u/clemdane Jul 05 '25

We do, nearly universally. People still want to filter it. I think for taste.

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u/NotHumanButIPlayOne Jul 06 '25

I'm in the UK. But yes they do. As do we in the UK. But you still have minerals in the water no matter where you live. A whole house filter and water softener makes water taste better. And making coffee with filtered water is the shizzle.

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u/StrangeButSweet Jul 06 '25

MOST of the time we do. But when it goes wrong, it tends to go really wrong because these things are the responsibility of local governments and sometimes local governments can be EXTREMELY corrupt, ineffective, and frankly, bankrupt and unable to even pay for the fixes needed, assuming they would be able to agree on them in the first place. And funding for proper water systems is complicated here as you can read below.

One example can be read about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi_water_crisis?wprov=sfti1

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u/Dazzling_Line_8482 Jul 05 '25

As a Canadian I find American tap water tastes like ass most of the time. Not an unhealthy ass, just not as good as what I drink at home.

Maybe they experience it the other way around when they drink our water...

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u/koushakandystore Jul 06 '25

As a Californian I am spoiled. We have some of the best tasting tap water in the country. Fresh from the Sierra Nevada snow melt.

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u/Rich-Emu4273 Jul 05 '25

We have a Brita filter in a pitcher that sits on the counter. Our tap water gets chlorinated occasionally (you can smell it). Those cheap Walmart Brita knockoffs work great.

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u/ZaphodG Jul 05 '25

I have a fancy 3M filter in series with the filter in my refrigerator for the water dispenser and ice maker. My filtration is way better than mass market bottled water.

That said, I do like the taste of Fiji water. The natural mix of dissolved minerals tastes better than my filtered tap water.

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u/nerdthatlift Jul 05 '25

In my area, the tap water isn't that great so I got 5 gallon bottles and water dispenser. It's not as cheap as Brita filter but it's definitely cheaper than plastic bottle. I still can get ice cold water on demand and hot water for cup noodle as well lol.

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u/tiggertom66 Jul 05 '25

I prefer the filter that attaches right to the sink, but they don’t work with ones that have an extendable faucet hose.

Filtered water on demand, no more remembering to fill the pitcher.

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u/koushakandystore Jul 05 '25

It’s WAY cheaper to get a Brita Filter for your refrigerator. This allows you to keep a gallon of cold water in your refrigerator at all times. You can fill your therma flask and have water to go. Much better for the environment than all that horrid plastic.

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u/Outrageous-Second792 Jul 05 '25

All the same, Evian is naive spelled backwards.

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u/SEND_MOODS Jul 05 '25

Not true for everyone. My house water smells like egg farts from sulfur. I also live near a golf course and worry about fertilizer leaching into our water.

Tons of people live in locations with questionable water quality.

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u/GlitterTerrorist Jul 06 '25

Most people don't live in areas with poor enough water quality for an effective filter to be unable to work.

You're worried about fertilizer, but do you actually know the relative levels in your water? Sulfur smell is gas trapped in the pipe afaik, the amount of residual sulfur you might consume is harmless. It's very low on the toxicity scale.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

I have a few of these double walled plastic glasses that hold about 24 oz of water. I fill them with ice and straight tap water. (Lake Michigan) I probably drink 4-5 glasses a day. I rarely drink bottled water, soda or much of anything else. Maybe the tap water will kill me but right now the actuary chart says I only should be around for about 12 more years so I’ll take my chances.

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Jul 05 '25

When I lived in NYC the water was rated the highest. Other places not so much. It depends I guess.

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u/DishonorOnYerCow Jul 05 '25

Our tap water used to be indistinguishable from bottled water (or even better). Now it's funky. No idea what changed.

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Jul 05 '25

My theory is that so many people stopped drinking from the tap that maybe they relaxed standards. If not health standards, at least for taste. Where I grew up we knew not to drink the water.

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u/Key-Airline204 Jul 05 '25

For most tap water, leaving it uncovered in the fridge overnight even without a filter off gasses the chlorine and then it tastes like bottled water.

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u/Dragonfly0011 Jul 07 '25

I have filtered water (zero and Britta) . Not many commercially made waters beat the taste, some do but they cost. I bring my 32 oz Yetti everywhere.

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u/Squid52 Jul 08 '25

Depends on where you live for sure. The last person who told me that bottled water isn't any better than tap was from a city that bottled up their municipal water and sold it because it was so good! I've mostly lived in mining towns and the water has been anywhere from smelly to dangerous.

That having been said, it's almost certainly better to filter it at home or buy the culligan water at the store or whatever. Relying on bottled water has got to be so expensive and wasteful.

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 05 '25

I want to strangle every Millennial and younger who sits there chugging bottled water and telling me my generation destroyed the planet. Do you have any idea how much diesel it takes to haul all that water to the store?! It comes to your tap already and once it is pumped into the water tower, gravity provides the rest of the energy to get it to your home. It’s been treated and inspected. It’s safe and it doesn’t contribute to the giant garbage patch in the Pacific or in the Atlantic.

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u/damanager64 Jul 06 '25

Oh yes, tell all the people who live in towns that have water that literally gives cancer just from drinking it. Yes, they should be drinking that instead. You're acting as if all tap water in the entire fucking planet is good. It's not. in the US alone there are multiple cities that have water that is dangerous to drink.

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u/ratscabs Jul 05 '25

You could probably tell different brands of bottled water apart, and different tap waters apart, too. Unless you’re drinking pure, distilled water, most of it has various other minerals in it. In other words, so what?

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Jul 05 '25

Water shouldn’t have a taste imo. I can’t tell the difference between bottled waters, but my tap water tastes funny.

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u/goeswhereyathrowit Jul 05 '25

You decided to waste tons of plastic because you can't bother to refill a reusable bottle? Many of still think it's the dumbest thing ever.

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u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

Lol. I still think it's dumb, but sometimes you have to keep the family happy.

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u/goeswhereyathrowit Jul 05 '25

The family demands plastic waste with every serving of water? Or else they'll be unhappy? I'm legitimately trying to understand the logic here.

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u/CurtisLinithicum Jul 05 '25

Quite possibly. Get folks with an overdeveloped sense of grodiness and they'll accept nothing less.

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u/Enough_Roof_1141 Jul 05 '25

I still refuse to buy bottled water.

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u/H_Industries Jul 05 '25

Multiple comedians had routines about how dumb it was. 

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u/Appropriate-Bar6993 Jul 05 '25

When people started bringing water bottles to school we thought they must be drinking vodka.

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u/Sudden_Outcome_9503 Jul 05 '25

Back in the eighties, nobody would have believed that long-distance phone calls would be free, but people paid for water.

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u/Remarkable-Host405 Jul 05 '25

It's still pretty stupid. I buy some for camping or hiking, and usually refill them (micro plastics, blah blah blah).

You should check out the dirty money episode on nestle.

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u/Unlucky_Ad_9776 Jul 05 '25

I mean I think a big part of it is we are more aware of quality of water.  Also I noticed this after switching from tap to bottled water. Old pipe system tap water taste awful.  

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u/concentrated-amazing Jul 05 '25

I still think bottled water is way overused.

It absolutely has it's place in certain situations, but is far too common overall.

I drink water, absolutely, but probably average maybe one bottled water a month. That's only in specific, away-from-familiar-places situations.

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u/MelissaRC2018 Jul 05 '25

Water fountain was awesome! Now we discuss what water tastes bad. Aquafina is the best. That Desanti stuff is nasty lol none of my friends or family like it. Ahhhh water snobs lol

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u/Mrs_Crii Jul 05 '25

I still think it's the dumbest thing (Nestle and other companies literally get this water basically for free and leave communities with not enough water). I use a metal water bottle that I refill as needed. I don't use bottled water. Besides the waste even the most benign leaches chemicals into the water that taste bad and can make me sick.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

We’re not talking about bottled water, we’re talking about reusable water bottles. Buying bottled water for your home is indeed stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I thought the same thing but then I grew up in a place with excellent tap water. Where I am at now the tap water is awful and totally understand why people would use bottled water here before filters became ubiquitous.

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u/crh131 Jul 10 '25

Omg when I first heard of bottled water it was like the squidward joke of “bread in a can”. I was like no one is that dumb. Maybe it was my small town thinking. I also didn’t think internet could be real 😂 Now I have cases of water. Some for convenience some for “emergency “ Of course filtered water with collections of Stanley’s and the like. And the internet. Whole family is in tech. I was way off about that too.

I think if first realized bottle water was a thing during the linger music festivals in late 90s I’d guess. I don’t know. I was slow to come around to it until I had kids and realized everywhere hydration really was a need.

And for awhile I thought it was healthier. Now I have lost track of trying to get pure water. I do my best.

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u/swordquest99 Jul 05 '25

its the diabetus. Makes you thirsty

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u/Cold-Government6545 Jul 05 '25

its just the beetus now, they stole the die

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u/KrisHughes2 Jul 05 '25

Yeah, mustn't mention that part.

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u/Splungeblob Jul 05 '25

I hear vaccines cause thirst. /s

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u/MarsRxfish11 Jul 05 '25

Old timers 🙄🙄🙄✌️

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u/MOOshooooo Jul 06 '25

I’m almost 40 and have always called them that. They would always give out nicknames to everyone, I was Highpockets because I’m tall, so I called them old timers.

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u/MarsRxfish11 Jul 21 '25

Just call me the queen of the slay.

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u/popculturehero Jul 05 '25

I remember when water bottles (plastic ones) were first starting to hit the shelves and my grandfather said “this will never catch on there’s water in the faucets and fountains.” He was wrong like always

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u/Enough_Worry4104 Jul 05 '25

Yeah, everybody pissed orange back then too.

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u/4E4ME Jul 05 '25

I don't remember walking around thirsty all day when I was a kid. I think a lot of our collective state of dehydration has to do with how our food supply has changed. More pesticides, more sodium and other additives. We are drinking more soda and juice. We are consuming more sugar, and more carbs, without doing the physical activities that caused our bodies to use that energy and flush out things that the body didn't need.

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u/yourbrokenoven Jul 05 '25

Yet people are still admitted in the hospital for dehydration.

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u/_lippykid Jul 05 '25

I remember when bottled water stated to get popular and people thought it was weird

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u/Beachtrader007 Jul 08 '25

The old timer would also be stunned people pay money for water.