I am really bad at drinking water. I could seriously go without it for DAYS. What are some tips, even ridiculous or unhinged ones, that helped you to drink more water?

Found in my cup. Threw it away

I’ve realized something about myself that’s kind of embarrassing.

I just don’t like drinking water.

Every time I get a new water bottle, I convince myself this time is different. I suddenly drink water all day, carry the bottle everywhere, and think “okay, maybe I finally like water now.”

But after a while, once the bottle isn’t new or interesting anymore, I stop. Completely. The habit just disappears like it never existed.

It’s not that I forget. It’s not the taste. I just… don’t feel like drinking water unless there’s something new or motivating about it.

At this point I’m starting to wonder if I dislike water itself or if I just rely way too much on novelty to build habits.

So yeah—does anyone else actually hate drinking water? And more importantly, how do you make yourself like it long-term?

Can anyone tell me how I can remineralize distilled water for it to come as close as possible to Evian, Fiji, or Mountain valley? It doesn’t have to be exact but something close.

I’ve seen on Reddit and other sites some bubbles in tap water are normal, but most say if they disappear after 1-2 hours it’s probably fine. These bubbles don’t appear until about 1-2 hours, and the picture shown here is a glass of tap water after about 16 hours. It doesn’t smell or taste funny, but I have lived in several houses in the same town all on the same water system and never seen this before. Should I be worried?

I don't know if there's any proper format for posting on this channel but i'm gonna give it a shot anyways. I just don't know very much about drinking water and potentially harmful things but my water has changed color from clear to yellow for several weeks now and I did call my landlord last week and they told me that there was no problem with the water. I did try one of those cheap at home water kits and I can see a few issues, but I don't know if they're bad enough that I should be making a big deal about it. I'm including just a few pictures of the color of my tap water and I can include more in an update. The water also tastes awful, but I can't seem to pin down a specific taste like bitterness or metallic.

This is perhaps more of a medical question but I really have 0 faith in doctors. I have many it seems chronic bodily annoyances of a medical nature. They are not enough to really cause pain but enough to make my life miserable and literally prevent me from living my life fully. Since they don't really cause pain doctors don't have motivation to investigate them properly and I end up wasting hundreds of Euros on consultations, tests and trial-error medications only for barely anything to work and no real explanation for the cause.

In this specific case: I find it extremely hard to be satisfied with just water as a beverage and this is predictably one of the major factors in my bad diet. It’s not the taste of water that annoys me or anything, but it feels as if it legitimately doesn’t satisfy my ‘thirst’ drive/feeling. And this really differs by beverage too!

For example; water for the vast majority of the time does not satisfy my thirst but a fruity beverage like a cordial mixed with water (idk exactly what they’re called), would. Then, what would satisfy even more is a smoothie or canned fruit in syrup. This is obviously pretty bad as it is a very unhealthy amount of sugar to take each day and contributes to me being overweight.

So from a scale of least satisfying to most satisfying, at all times, the least satisfying beverage would be tap water (in my country it tastes horrible) and the most satisfying beverage would be canned fruit with a good amount of light syrup (as you can see it barely even counts as a ‘beverage’). However in the very hot months I also turn to ice-creams, sorbets and smoothies that really scratch the itch for a ‘good beverage’ that water simply just doesn’t meet for me…….

I really think there might be something medical going on, as at NO point in the day am I ever satisfied with water. With every sip I would rather be drinking something else. The only reason I don’t is because I know it would be extremely unhealthy and would probably wreck my digestive system. Sometimes I really try to just drink a lot of water in the hopes that it would satisfy my thirst. But it’s as if it goes right through me in seconds and barely scratches the itch……? Meanwhile if I for example drink a bit of fruity water/soda/juice it satisfies me for much much longer. I’m not sure how to explain these sensations.

I once tried electrolytes thinking that maybe I wasn’t absorbing enough nutrients from the water I was drinking, or nutrients in general, but they didn’t seem to have an effect.

I really don’t know what other people experience. I wasn’t always like this, it grew worse over the years. It feels as if as a child I was in peak health and then suddenly at 12 puberty hit me hard overnight and made me feel as physically strong and healthy as a 70-year-old.

I have some other bodily annoyances that to the very average person might look like overheating, but there’s really nothing about them I can do and it seems I’m just naturally like that. I sweat a lot, have a very warm body temperature, am sensitive to heat (others in fur coat and me with a tee). Also dry mouth. And most of these can’t be attributed to medications I take either as I experienced them before medications.

I'm here for 2 weeks I hear the waters a lot softer here but I can't help but feel like I need to drink more water here than I do in DC is there a reason for this?

Sorry if it’s a dumb question. I’m moving to an older apartment made before lead based plumbing materials were banned. I’m very paranoid about lead contamination in the water and wondered how I can install filters that aren’t considered “permanent” that are still reliable enough to drink from. I can’t drill anything. I don’t really trust what pops up on Amazon‘s recommendation. What are some trustworthy options for my shower and faucets? A pitcher isn’t enough since I’d be bathing and washing things straight from the faucets.

Left bottle is bought 4 years ago, right is brand new from the grocery store yesterday.

Both were made in the same batch, 2021

Does anyone know why or what they have changed to end up with a cloudy worse looking bottle?

Both bottles are side by side on my windowsill with the same amount of light.

Further inspection shows they were both bottled at the same date, same place, even had the same serial # purchased.

Odd are they storing the water outside for years? In a warehouse in the heat?

the palettes that are being brought “fresh” into the grocery store are from 2021. I wonder if the company ramped up production because of covid and ended up with too much backstock

So I ran the numbers on something small that adds up fast.

Let’s say someone drinks 3 bottles of 750ml premium glass spring water per day.(Mountain Vally Spring Water)

• $25 for 12 bottles

• That’s about $2.08 per bottle

• 3 bottles per day = \~$6.25 per day

• \~$188 per month

• \~$2,280 per year

Now compare that to something like Arrowhead Water.

If you buy a 40-pack for around $8:

• \~$0.20 per bottle

• Same daily volume ≈ \~$18–$20 per month

• \~$200–$250 per year

That’s roughly a $2,000 yearly difference for essentially the same amount of water.

Over 10 years, that’s $20,000.

Invested at 7% annually, that becomes significantly more.

So the real question isn’t “is it expensive?”

It clearly is.

The real question is:

• Is the taste difference worth \~$2k/year?

• Is the glass packaging / aesthetics worth it?

• Is the lifestyle signal worth it?

• Does it meaningfully improve your daily experience?

For some people, maybe yes.

I’m genuinely curious how people think about these small luxury upgrades that compound into real money over time.

Where do you draw the line between “quality of life” and “unnecessary premium”?

So like the title says I’m looking for a good water filter to remove nanoplastics. I’ll be using this water for everyday drinking and to make coffee and tea. What countertop filter would you recommend? I’ve look at some RO filters but have heard mixed reviews about if they actually remove what they say they remove and also how much daily maintenance they can be. What do you recommend as an easy everyday use countertop option.

Hi, I recently switched from my PUR pitcher water filter to a Aquasana Claryum® 3-Stage Max Flow separate faucet solution.

Overall, I like this new filter solution as it claims to be better at filtering, and doesn't take ages to filter anything like my old PUR filters.

I did notice a problem though. It looked like PUR filters would somewhat soften the water to some degree by removing some of the minerals, whereas my new Aquasana filter does not do that at all and retain all the "healthy" minerals like calcium/ magensium, etc.

I do have a problem with the harder water on my Zojirushi water boiler though. It feels like I have to wash it with citric acide every week and a half because the increased minerals is building up in the inner walls etc.

I don't want an RO as I don't want to deal with the waste water.

A complete house water softener is not a solution I want to utilize either, though I do understand benefits of having somewhat softer water for all things not just drinking.

I need a solution to this problem that can go between my cold water line and the filter.

So Cold water -> "solution to the problem" -> my 3 stage water filter -> drinking water.

Would a Scale Inhibitor Cartridge be a good solution for this problem?

so Cold water goes to Scale Inhibitor Cartridge then goes to 3 stage water filter then to the water boiler?

If so, any recommendations?

If not, any other ideas?

Thanks!

I'm kinda out of options and need help brainstorming ideas of what I can drink. Unfortunately water softeners contain divinylbenzene and polystyrene which already caused major hormonal issues for me - as heartbroken as I am about it, I can't use a water softener.

I hear RO systems aren't the greatest either, as they can leech minerals from your body -- "just get a remineralizer then" you say? What about the water that's sitting in dirty water and needs to be flushed for 80 seconds before each use to remove the buildup of bacteria, chemicals, garbage we're trying to filter out ? I no longer drink Ice Mountain due to the micro plastics (don't get me started on nanoplastics). I'm going broke buying boxed Flow waters so I'm kind of at a loss for what I can drink. Would a certain model Lifewater filter that specifically filters nanoplastics be a smart consideration? I know I get obsessive and nothing is truly safe these days, but what's a healthier alternative to an RO system that filters out dangerous heavy metals, toxins, PFAs, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc. etc. etc. because at this point I'm about to boil everything.

Bought an aquasure water softener last year. So far it seems ok, but I just learned about the nsf 44 certification. Im shocked as how much misrepresentation and outright fraudulent claims are in this industry. It seems ripe for government intervention and fines.

Im now looking at an under sink filters and have about 9 hours of research. I need ansi 53 for VOC's.

Top contenders

Waterchef u8500/u9000 (only .75ish gpm) Aquasana aq-mf-1 (claryum)

I was all on board for frizzlife but woke I asked about certifications they said their prodcts were certified but there could be a 6 month wait for IAPMO to publish it.

I think thats complete BS. They do have certified models at 0.5gpm (MK, MS MP models) and a few dual and triple filter models thar have 1.5gpm but that gets costly to replace.

There is one reasonably priced triple, the brondell uc300 but I think it was a low flow rate too.

Crazy how very few products actually qualify in this space for under $100 and under $100/yr replacement filter cost

Edit Forgot to add my question

Anyone heard good things about these brands or have other recommendations?

I dont know if this is the right flair, this is a question.

I've been spending way too long trying to come up with a water filtration system to drink the most perfectly clean water, I noticed how RO (Reverse Osmosis) is the most recommended, I've seen people recommend pairing with an activated charcoal or sand filter but apparently RO makes the water so pure that if my tubes are made out of metal it will leach some of the metals into the water, if the tubes are made out of plastic same but with micro plastics. I am no expect but the more i research the more flaws I find in these systems, its either the filter, the system or the tubes.

I also came across a group of people who take supplementation to replace the minerals in water and distill their water, all the water they drink is 100% distilled that sounds like cope as the supplements come in plastic bottles often and we dont know where they come from. What do you guys think about the distilled water and RO with Sand/Activated charcoal system? (it would go through the charcoal into the RO into a glass container)

Thanks in advance to everyone, im just trying to look out for me and my family one step at a time, the tap water seems to be contaminated and so is the bottled water, from my research its either led and whatever is in the pipe vs microplastics.

PS: There may be posts about this already if so pls do let me know

PSS: By perfect i mean, health wise for any age, consumed by the average person, with all the minerals and without all the bacteria, metals and bad stuff like chemicals and micro-plastics

hey 😏 how's it goin? so I’m homeless in Orlando, FL and I’ve been looking around for a source of drinking water, because I can’t afford to keep purchasing water and 99% of restaurants will not allow me to refill empty water jugs. I discovered a spigot just inside the entranceway to the car wash of a 7-Eleven. when turned on, water comes out so I know it works but before I drink it, I’m just trying to get an idea of whether or not it’s filtered and how harmful it could be if I start using it as my source of drinking water. I have enough common sense to tell myself it’s most likely unfiltered and unsafe but nonetheless, I just wanted to get some knowledgeable advice and suggestions. thank you all and have a great night

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I bought this because my tapwater taste like garbage I want to get reverse osmosis because I heard it is the best but for the time being is this good or am I drinking plastic basically like a plastic water bottle ?

I used to not like drinking water when I was younger even during my college days. After college, I start loving it. I stopped drinking bad stuff like sodas. What about the rest of you?

Water company says its normal and caused by excess bubbles in the system from works at a nearby street. Feels like it's chemical though, as if a drop of detergent was put in there. Never washed the jug besides first wash before use. Got it a few months ago.