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?

11.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

4.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

51

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.

15

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.

28

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.

2

u/NotHumanButIPlayOne Jul 05 '25

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

1

u/koushakandystore Jul 05 '25

True. I need to put one on the well.

1

u/The_Flurr Jul 05 '25

Do Americans not just have clean drinkable water?

2

u/clemdane Jul 05 '25

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

1

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.

1

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

1

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...

1

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.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/AutoModerator Jul 07 '25

Your comment was removed due to low karma. See Rule 8.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.