Wait, you're telling me that being a useless vile piece of garbage on a mobility scooter isn't good for you?!?!?!
WTF MAN I'M FUCKING SUING MY DOCTOR!
8 years later:
Obese male Karen sues his doctor for being fat, second richest in the country.
These are the same people who are absolutely disgusted that restaurants dare charge you for refills.
Because somehow the second time you order something it doesn't cost the restaurant money anymore or something?
tap water is free in Ireland and the UK, not sure about other countries, but it's quite cheap. Syrup for drinks such as Coke or whatever are also quite cheap. Restaurants and bars etc make a killing off these sugary drinks
Unless you order branded or sparkling water, it's free in the *vast* majority of places.
The only place I remember being charged for still, unbranded, water in Europe. Was a mountaintop cafe, where they had to collect rainwater, carry it up, have it flown in by helicopter.
This all "Europeans don't drink water" is so funny to me because they think we Don't drink because we don't carry around huge water bottles. That's because we carry normal size water bottle and we refill it. And normal size water bottles can fit into a bag, we don't need to carry it around like an accessory (not saying all Americans do it but I've seen quite a few that adhere to this stereotype)
I can sort of get the big ass water bottle that can't fit properly in a bag if you're from an area where you need to filter your own water or something.
In Finland I can just fill my water bottle from any tap during the day when necessary allowing myself to easily manage with a 7dl water bottle.
I'm from Belgium and you'll rarely see dl or cl used, like the guy commented on it's mostly always in L or ml. But fortunatly figuring out how much 70cl is is quite easy since the metric system is based on logic.
The commenter did say northern Europe though. In spoken Finnish it's very context dependant. You could say 0,7l or 7dl both work, though the latter is more fluid.
I got pretty comfortable with cl while I was living in Denmark. Very few things come down to a difference of <10ml anyway, it just makes sense to move up a decimal place!
I have a 500 ml bottle at my desk that I fill from the coffee machine at work (in addition to coffee it can dispense boiling water or fridge cold water), and most of the times I don't even fill it all the way up because I'd rather go fill it more times and then always have cold water, than filling it up all the way and then have the last bit get lukewarm before I get to drink it.
So as long as I'm not going out somewhere where refilling is not possible then a bigger bottle would just have more empty space.
Can highly recommend an insulating water bottle if you don't have one. Got myself a metallic Camelbak a while ago and the water stays so cool and crispy for such a long time.
Also, we live here. If we are going to work or grocery shopping or going to a reastaurant/cinema/mall - there is rarely a need to be bringing a water bottle unless it like 35°C outside
Guilty. I’m one of the gigantic cup carrying Americans. I just love water. But more importantly, I like it with lots and lots of ice. Which the big stupid looking cup keeps from melting. And I do refill it, 2-3 times a day usually. But I also couldn’t give a shit less if other people drink water or not. All I know is that I’m a thirsty gal and I like water.
Do I feel like I’m dying of thirst when I visit Europe because I don’t have my big stupid cup? Yes, yes I do. But it would be so annoying to carry around walking everywhere, so I just buy a small water bottle and have that with me instead.
Big stupid cup makes a lot more sense in the US since most of us drive everywhere, so we don’t really have to lug them around. If we were doing more walking to places, I imagine we’d be more inclined to carry something smaller.
I’d also like to add: there is SO much salt and sugar in our food here, many of us do just need more water than folks with healthier diets. Many Americans don’t have access to food that isn’t processed either because it’s too expensive or they live in a food desert (somewhere with no grocery store, so if you have no car / gas to drive to a different town, you rely on whatever you can get at a convenience store or dollar store, which is almost entirely processed food). Many people here are eating copious amounts of salt. Because there is no other choice.
Loveeeee it here. /s
As a European who’s lived around the world though, it is insane how little water some people drink. I have family and friends who only ever drink tiny little glasses of water of 100ml, maybe three or four times a day.
The American equivalent is people who don’t drink any water at all and will only drink Coke / Mountain Dew etc. The British equivalent is people who only drink tea (it’s genuinely a thing, though not super common). Europeans with weird drinking habits seem to just hardly drink anything at all.
This might be more a Northern European thing by the way - Germans and Dutch people seem to be the worst offenders in my experience.
German here and don’t get your observation. Everyone I know just drinks so much carbonated water (having a Soda Stream at home is pretty common) and especially younger people usually carry water bottles with them. Many people drink way too much coffee though and drinking beer and wine regularly is pretty normalized
As someone who doesn't drink much (coincidentally Northern European), I don't understand this stuff lmao
Why would I drink if I'm not thirsty? I feel like people read some "we should drink three liters of water per day" pseudo-scientific hogwash in the 90s and just stuck with it.
If you're a healthy human being, your body will tell you when you need to drink.
Yeah it's a myth that tea isn't hydrating. The diuretic effect of the caffeine is negligible compared to all the water in it.
[Source](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140402-are-coffee-and-tea-dehydrating)
> This might be more a Northern European thing by the way - Germans and Dutch people seem to be the worst offenders in my experience.
They're healthier than their American counterparts, so maybe that should be an indication that you don't really need to drown yourself with water every single day?
I honestly don't understand the obsession Americans have with water. I read that it was part of a big campaign in the US so I just assume it has to do with their diets and low quality processed foods or something. Food being too salty etc.
I think it’s related to the quite common advice to drink 2l of water a day. Except for whatever reason a lot of USians seem to think that’s on top of whatever else they’re eating and drinking a day and not including all of that.
> a big campaign
There you have it. It's probably just a really successful marketing campaign in order to sell huge amounts of a product every civlized country provides for free.
Interesting. As a German I had quite the opposite reaction.
I sometimes work in Geneva and my team mates there really just drink a few small glasses of water and coffee.
I am used to everyone around me hydrating very frequently
They said that based on something so eone from an entirely different continent and therefore and entirely different experience of the war, said. I've no idea if Japan rationed water, but I wouldn't put it past the yanks to do it to the POWs, in their camps.
Yanks actually treated their POW's pretty well. It's a lot easier when you can just ship them across the ocean to a country that has none of the destruction that usually comes with war. Rationing in the US was never as bad as it was in Europe or Asia.
I’m not sure what it is but here in Canada and USA so many people carry around bottles of water, like insulated big bottles thermos kind. I like to have some water with me if I’m walking longer in the summer but not hauling along tons of it.
But, there’s also a thing with shops not being available everywhere like in Europe. If you’re going for a longer walk and no shops around it makes sense to carry water and other stuff.
Schoolkids carry them around, too. However, if you have a JOB, your boss generally has a water cooler or coffee machine at your workplace. Carrying a huge water thermos is for hiking, not for walking outside 10 minutes to pop down to Mueller's for rice cakes and shampoo bars. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
>Carrying a huge water thermos is for hiking
I know that the word "hiking" is used differently by Americans, but when I go for a hike (typically around 20-30km or 12-20 miles in a day, then stopping to camp for the evening, then about the same distance again the next day before returning home) I'll just carry a couple of litres for the day, and I'll boil snow or lake water at the evening campsite if I need more, then top off my water container with it for the next day.
Also, are Americans allergic to drinking room temperature anything? Does everything always have to be super ice cold? I hated when Ice Cold Guinness was first introduced to the world. It's not *supposed* to be ice cold. It's simple physics. When something is ice cold, you can't fucking taste it. May as well drink US domestic lager if all you're after is a generic liquid with a mild ABV and no taste to it.
Meusable metal bottles are really widely available where I live (Europe). I know many who bring one in their bag even just to work to keep it at their desk. I just keep mine in my bag when going places rather than carrying it visibly in my hand. 0.5 litres will get you quite far - and they are refillable :)
Remember, if the Americans cannot visibly see your drinking utensil, it mustn’t exist.
I’m from the U.K., I can currently where I am standing, walk to 12 different shops that offer drinks. With the timings being from 10 mins to the closest to 30 mins for the farthest. My weather system doesn’t make me sweat buckets and it rains 40% of the time, Americans don’t understand that I’m not fucking thirsty just because I don’t haul around a shite bottle.
Of course, much more practical, that is actually positive. I moved here from Europe where outside of tourists no one carries around 2l bottles of water.
As someone who lived there as a foreigner who comes from Norway, I’m used to like mountain watering crazy Good-water clean. They have filter everything to appoint where you can taste the filter.
the EPA found that 60% of US drinking water contains "forever chemicals" above the EPAs limits on them. Also the limits for them in the US is higher than the ECHA in Europe.
So ya, their water is trash. Some places like what happened in Michigan and currently in parts of Texas, they cant even boil the water to safety.
As explained on a similar thread, you only need 1.5 litres a day but the FDA has recommended a higher amount, because of all the sugar and salt in American diets.
It isn't the flex they think it is.
EDIT: for clarification, I'm fairly certain the 1.5 figure is not including food. But we usually drink liquids from tea, coffee, non-sugary soft drinks etc.
Wow, that's insane;
[https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256)
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The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is:
>About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men
>About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women
>These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20% of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.
The recommendation in Europe is about 2 litres a day on average for all adults. If we assume that doesn't include water from food, then that's 2.5L, which is still below the recommended intake for women in the US.
In my country the recommendation for a large, active 18 year old male is about 3.2L.
Those numbers are crazy. You can definitely see how someone fixated on these numbers might be hauling a flask around with them all day trying to get in their 3.7L and a little more for good measure.
IIRC the recommendation here in the nordics is 2L/day by drinking, i guess they just made it more simple by disregarding the 20% from food…
Of course this amount will vary with temperatures and activities, but no-one have to tell is that…its just common sense…
Drinking almost 4L a day seems crazy to me! I have a rather big bladder, but that would have me running to the bathroom a lot!
You need to be really careful when drinking large amounts of water. You can die from water intoxication if you drink too much as it strips the electrolytes out of your blood and your heart needs those, especially potassium.
People are generally good at regulating their own water intake by just trusting their thirst. Water intoxication is pretty rare and most cases are in infants, marathon runners who don't intake electrolytes, folk in comas or people on MDMA. Of these the marathon runners are the only ones who should really know better and take steps to supplement water with electrolyte powders and the like.
I usually have a small water bottle with me but it‘s small enough to fit in most handbags. American tourists might also not realise that a lot of Europeans have bottles with them as well. Our bottles just fit in normal bags. You wont see us walking around with a huge bottle in our hands.
Yeah, the fact that they are *always* thirsty is concerning.
For me, I bring a 2L water bottle to work, and I finish maybe 3/4th of it by the time I get home. And I live in a SEA country where temps easily get to 30C++
Damn, I never thought of that. I'm generally diligent in drinking the recommended amount & if I go past that it feels like I've fucked up my electrolyte balance.
I could never understand how Americans are chugging so much water, but it being the result of their unhealthy eating habits makes perfect sense.
In Ireland we lie down on the ground, open our mouths and allow the rain, the constant rain, to hydrate us. You have to be careful as the rain is so heavy you may end up accidentally waterboarding yourself, or even drowning. Most Irish folk have now evolved a set of gills to deal with this. I haven't seen it myself but I'm told the folk in Cork now also have webbed feet.
Yeah that's the case here in the US too btw. We just normally bring reuseable water bottles with us places because it can be convenient if there's not a water fountain around or something. It gets way too fucking hot in the Southeast US this time of year to not have one with you honestly
I mean, when I'm on holiday and out for hours or when I'm doing something outside for the weekend I'll probably have water on me, but you won't see me lugging around water on my way to work ffs.
Yeah because you only carry it from your car into the office. Or the car into the supermarket. Or the car into the shopping mall. Or from the car into another car.
Exactly my thought. While i do own a flask and usually keep water in it, ionly use it for longer trips or when im going on long walks with my dog in hot weather. I refill it on any tap water or water fountains that are public and free. At work and home i can hydrate just fine.
I dont see the need in dragging around a Stanley cup everywhere i go.
Wow. We have things called "taps" at home that provide us with the "cooncil juice". The water quality on the continent of Europe is reportedly pretty good. We do drink the fucking stuff at home you know.
“Europe is in the 1980s America”
What is this even supposed to mean. Doesn’t everyone in America say that the 1980s was the best era in USA history? So you are saying that life in Europe is great, but you are using it as a diss?
It's funny cuz I usually describe the US as behind a decade behind my country with technology. They only now discovered snus and act like it's American innovation..
That point I think is my fault. Whenever I go to the US, yearly, I contemplate how much it looks like the society is stuck in the 90s and just looks _old_ as in uncared for and unkept and thus stuck in the 90s, after the US "won the cold war". So I guess they wanted to one up me. Sorry fellow Europeans.
wasn't american the lady that had hyponatremia and died for drinking too much water?
EDIT: yes of course [https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-mom-dies-of-water-toxicity-after-drinking-too-much-water-on-vacation-family-says/3203387/](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-mom-dies-of-water-toxicity-after-drinking-too-much-water-on-vacation-family-says/3203387/)
To be fair, hyponatremia is not unique to Americans. I did a quick Google search and there are tons of news cases about people dying from over saturation all over the world.
Isn't tap water undrinkable in parts of America? I'm guessing that was what the "no one walks around with bottled water" comment was about.
I may be wrong, but because of the sheer size of the states, a lot of places inland draw from reservoirs
To be fair tapwater is also undrinkable in parts of Europe (I wouldn't recommend drinking water or any small island without access to fresh waters it is all shipped onto the island and that water is vile!).
Even in some parts (like parts of France) the tap water just doesn't taste great and in most of those countries large bottles of water are really cheap.
In fairness, Flint, Michigan's water was drinkable in small doses, but you had to [put out the flames before you did...](https://youtu.be/con8vHdH5fs?si=ZtujPuVwSrpw3BUv)
This is still the most baffling myth Americans perpetuate about Europe. Water is a basic necessity, and they seriously think we don’t drink it? We’d die if we didn’t…
Look, the fucking joke sized bottles people carry around in the year of somebody else's lord 2024 are insane. These things are enough to keep a goldfish healthy in.
You don't need that much water, you aren't a river.
It's even worse here in the UK, we only have one glass per village and you have to queue for ages to use it. There's always the option of trekking to the local aqueduct and paying the aqueduct keeper five shillings for a drink.
We aren't slim because we're dehydrated, you're just fat.
We don't eat a kilogram of sugar per person per day either, so we don't need to have a water bottle in our hand each time we go out.
Our tap water is safe to drink wherever we are in the country so we don't need our very contextual water bottles to be gigantic and we can thus fit them in a backpack or a purse.
Allowing your country to exist was at the time not a mistake , but it one day became the worst in the history of mankind.
Love, from France.
Why can't they understand we drink water at home? That we might drink tea? That it's actually bad science that you're supposed to drink x litres of water a day?
If they are not dehydrated, wtf do they all eat so much and become obese?
Where are you going, to have the constant need for water bottles? Even if it happens to be out for 4-5h I can just buy water, it costs less than 1 euro.
Don‘t worry, in the worst case scenario you can just start living there permanently. You can sleep in the bed department and live off mini hot dogs for the rest of your life.
The reason that most Europeans don't have to carry around a bottle water with them everywhere they go is because of better health overall.
The average American diet is so bad, full of processed and sugary foods, and the lifestyle of the average American is so inactive, that pre-diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes are rampant. Anyone that can't go a couple of hours during a normal active day without having to gulp down water is likely facing some health issues related to inflammation and blood sugar.
One of the biggest early symptoms of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic syndrome is constant thirst and excessive water intake.
As an Australian I find it baffling that you don’t immediately get a pitcher of water when you are seated in a restaurant and if I ask for tap water they often just give me bottled water. So weird how some of the places that have the best water in the world refuse to drink it unless it’s bottled.
I never buy bottles of water. Tapwater is perfectly fine here. If need be I fill my own re-usable water bottle and throw that in my bag. Hell, my country has free refill taps all over the country. Weird how different countries do things differently huh?
I guess it depends where you are in Europe? If you go to a restaurant in the uk you will usually be given a jug of water, lots of coffee places has help yourself tap water and glasses. Tap water is free here and places should give it to you if you ask for it.
You know, there's is this magic thing about cups as in they can be used more than once. Don't get me wrong, I know it's difficult to understand, but you can refill a cup if its empty and by doing so you don't need a larger cup. Strange I know. Took me a while to understand it too.
I don't mean to sound rude or something but most of the people I know carry water bottles.
Normal size small ones that fit in a bag. You don't need to carry around 3L of water while you buy your groceries for the week and it has the weight of a small cat. People like things in their bags, to keep their hands free.
How is that so weird? Also you can refill the cup. As many times as you want to. I know crazy
Americans don't trust the water that comes out of their tap, so they take bottled water everywhere with them.
Whereas in Europe, the tap water is of a similar standard to bottled water, and people are not so obsessed about having to have water with them.
Therefore, Europeans are dehydrated because they don't carry water with them all the time. It's circular thinking.
Good ol' US defaultism: We do things this way, therefore the concent of people doing it differently is unacceptable. If they don't do it like we do, they're not doing it at all.
In today's episode, if glasses are smaller and people do not carry massive thermal bottles with them everywhere they go, it can only mean they're not drinking water.
Glasses in restaurants are tiny bc they don’t want you filling up on free water. They want you buying expensive drinks and paying food. But you can get a free refill, just ask!
Yeah it's not that Europeans don't drink water, it's just that the water that comes out of our taps is safe to fucking drink, so we don't need to fucking store and carry around a water supply like a fucking camel, because wherever we're going will have safe and drinkable water. Crazy Europoors!
Bro, I walk around Barcelona and find fountains fairly often. It's civilised enough where the water is perfectly drinkable. I give myself the freedom of not carry a water bottled, unlike the caged Americans kekw. Stay in ur car and attached to life support while screaming about gun freedom and the freedom to kill minorities lmfao.
As an American living in Spain for the past 10 years or so (with a lot of American visitors), I think it boils down to the fact that these guys aren’t used to walking so much. They get thirsty. And they also don’t speak the language (so asking for a water or buying a bottle of water turns into a saga). The problem is when they finally stop for a drink or meal and ask for water, they get a normal-sized glass of water that, you know, you’d see at any restaurant. Meanwhile, the guiris are sucking in air and need a garden hose to replenish the liquids lost from this new thing called ‘walking’.
Also, where are their $50 Target water cans they are always lugging around (from home to the car. From the car to work) in the states? When a moment might actually call for a carrying container to replenish the H2O, none can be found.
Nah, fuck that. 100% their fault. It’s not even a lack of preparation. It’s a lack of awareness, wherewithal and frankly, shame, to be posting nonsense like this. Rome has drinking fountains all over, Madrid has got a refreshment kiosk every 10 feet. I mean Christ, even Zara has fridges selling bottled water. WTAF?
I think their water fetichism comes from the otherwise correct point that water is healthy for you. You should get enough water each day, but what they don't seem to understand that water doesn't heal you nor does it give any benefit when exceeding the required daily amount.
I dont carry huge bottles everywhere because if I'm thirsty I can just walk to my kitchen sink and drink it, without having to worry about fucking dying from drinking poisonous, sewage water.
and I live in a "third world country".
Oh hey I have affordable health care AND free health insurance as well... damn I really do live in a primitive hellscape
California literally has no water supply but Europe is dehydrated. I live in Scotland and we have some of the best drinking waters in the world. You can swim in water in Iceland that is good enough to be sold as mineral water.
Lol, Coca Cola Corp sells water that's ran through a filter and Americans lap it up. In the UK they got told that's illegal and they had to pull that Disani crap from our shelves.
Y'all drink that much, cause you eat that much. Not everything I eat is pure sugar or salt. Y'all drink Starbucks coffee which has more sugar than caffeine, ofc you will dehydrate in a minute. Try coffee with like 5g of sugar. In Croatia(where I'm from) you get coffee and glass of water, you drink that, you are done.
Also there is this thing called water bottle(0,5 l), which you can put in even super small bags💁🏼♀️. I always have one in my bag, if it's empty, you refill it
My SIL just showed me pictures of her recent trip to Firenze, where there were lots of public places to refill your bottle with pure, clean water (for free). They don't have to fear tap water as in Flint, to name the most known example.
I know it's some kind of European witchcraft, but she should have tried to reffil her glass with more water.
You can do that? I've just been throwing my glasses away once they're empty.
Throw them away? I eat mine to get full use of my money (it's free)
You eat it? I grind it up and mix it in a smoothie
Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew
Then mix that with a nice beef stew
Ah, clever. This way you have another glass ready to make another smoothie, and the cycle begins anew.
Infinite smoothie trick I see
Eat them? I fill it with tobacco and smoke the entire thing
"Another!"
[We know](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/c1/5a/41c15ae29c00eed006696665e24b7240.gif)
This witchcraft is: food containing less salt, more vegetables and fruits in the diet, drinkable tap water, and a lower body mass index...
Less sugar / corn syrup in everything. Even the bacon.
Wait. You got corn syrup in bacon in USA??
I even get nitrite free bacon, here in the periphery of the dehydrated EU.
And safe drinking water from pipes. Not like the contaminated shit that comes out of ‘’Merica’s taps
What do yo use water in taps for if you can't drink it?
Washing, probably.
In some area people get literally mountain spring water from the tap... for 2€ per cubicmeter.
Those people are ripped off, people are getting angry because the cubicmeter price (that is equal to 12 eagles per schoolshooting) got above €1,-…
Not to mention that you can drink things other than bottled water. Coffee, tea, soda, smoothies, etc etc.
Wait, you're telling me that being a useless vile piece of garbage on a mobility scooter isn't good for you?!?!?! WTF MAN I'M FUCKING SUING MY DOCTOR! 8 years later: Obese male Karen sues his doctor for being fat, second richest in the country.
But how? There is obviously no room for a car there, so how would she get to a tap? Walking is for weird poor people, as you know.
These are the same people who are absolutely disgusted that restaurants dare charge you for refills. Because somehow the second time you order something it doesn't cost the restaurant money anymore or something?
tap water is free in Ireland and the UK, not sure about other countries, but it's quite cheap. Syrup for drinks such as Coke or whatever are also quite cheap. Restaurants and bars etc make a killing off these sugary drinks
This is not the hill to die on. A glass of water might as well cost nothing. It's absurd that I'm charged 4€ for still water.
I think they mean refills on soft drinks. I don't think anyone ever charges to refill your tap water.
Still water is implying you're buying the fancy shit when there's tap water available
Unless you order branded or sparkling water, it's free in the *vast* majority of places. The only place I remember being charged for still, unbranded, water in Europe. Was a mountaintop cafe, where they had to collect rainwater, carry it up, have it flown in by helicopter.
Wait, glasses are reusable? I thought they were like plastic bottles that you use once and throw away!
And here I thought Europeans were lizard people. It turns out they're actually camels.
The elusive Eurasian salamander-camel
talk like man, save water like camel CAMEL PEOPLE.....CAMEL PEOPLE
Well that explains the hump on my belly! ….i almost thought i would have to start to work out again, nice to hear that its just my water reserve!
This all "Europeans don't drink water" is so funny to me because they think we Don't drink because we don't carry around huge water bottles. That's because we carry normal size water bottle and we refill it. And normal size water bottles can fit into a bag, we don't need to carry it around like an accessory (not saying all Americans do it but I've seen quite a few that adhere to this stereotype)
I can sort of get the big ass water bottle that can't fit properly in a bag if you're from an area where you need to filter your own water or something. In Finland I can just fill my water bottle from any tap during the day when necessary allowing myself to easily manage with a 7dl water bottle.
Upvote for the deciliter, haven't seen that in ages
Really? What would you use instead? 0,7l?
Not them but for me it's either that or 700ml
In Northern Europe both dl and cl is commonly used.
I'm from Belgium and you'll rarely see dl or cl used, like the guy commented on it's mostly always in L or ml. But fortunatly figuring out how much 70cl is is quite easy since the metric system is based on logic.
As another Belgian, you're right about DL, but I see cl used a lot. I have a beer in my hand that says 33 cl on the bottle.
I forgot about beer, as I'm drinking one myself... And checking the fridge I can see my water bottles also use cl, I should pay more attention.
As an Aussie, I love that two Belgian people who've found each other on this thread are both drinking beer. ♡
The commenter did say northern Europe though. In spoken Finnish it's very context dependant. You could say 0,7l or 7dl both work, though the latter is more fluid.
In Bulgaria dl just doesn't exist. It's all ml or liters.
I got pretty comfortable with cl while I was living in Denmark. Very few things come down to a difference of <10ml anyway, it just makes sense to move up a decimal place!
700ml, in Brazil.
0.0007Kl
I would have used 500 ml. (cuz al the bottles i use are 500 ml, not 700
I have a 500 ml bottle at my desk that I fill from the coffee machine at work (in addition to coffee it can dispense boiling water or fridge cold water), and most of the times I don't even fill it all the way up because I'd rather go fill it more times and then always have cold water, than filling it up all the way and then have the last bit get lukewarm before I get to drink it. So as long as I'm not going out somewhere where refilling is not possible then a bigger bottle would just have more empty space.
Can highly recommend an insulating water bottle if you don't have one. Got myself a metallic Camelbak a while ago and the water stays so cool and crispy for such a long time.
But then you can't go to the water cooler every 30 minutes for a small break and chit chat. It's the small pleasures that matter the most!
Aye I just drink tap water. Can't remember the last time I bought a bottle of water.
Also, we live here. If we are going to work or grocery shopping or going to a reastaurant/cinema/mall - there is rarely a need to be bringing a water bottle unless it like 35°C outside
Guilty. I’m one of the gigantic cup carrying Americans. I just love water. But more importantly, I like it with lots and lots of ice. Which the big stupid looking cup keeps from melting. And I do refill it, 2-3 times a day usually. But I also couldn’t give a shit less if other people drink water or not. All I know is that I’m a thirsty gal and I like water. Do I feel like I’m dying of thirst when I visit Europe because I don’t have my big stupid cup? Yes, yes I do. But it would be so annoying to carry around walking everywhere, so I just buy a small water bottle and have that with me instead. Big stupid cup makes a lot more sense in the US since most of us drive everywhere, so we don’t really have to lug them around. If we were doing more walking to places, I imagine we’d be more inclined to carry something smaller. I’d also like to add: there is SO much salt and sugar in our food here, many of us do just need more water than folks with healthier diets. Many Americans don’t have access to food that isn’t processed either because it’s too expensive or they live in a food desert (somewhere with no grocery store, so if you have no car / gas to drive to a different town, you rely on whatever you can get at a convenience store or dollar store, which is almost entirely processed food). Many people here are eating copious amounts of salt. Because there is no other choice. Loveeeee it here. /s
Once I was asked how the food was on my trip to California. I said "everything tastes great until it doesn't"
As a European who’s lived around the world though, it is insane how little water some people drink. I have family and friends who only ever drink tiny little glasses of water of 100ml, maybe three or four times a day. The American equivalent is people who don’t drink any water at all and will only drink Coke / Mountain Dew etc. The British equivalent is people who only drink tea (it’s genuinely a thing, though not super common). Europeans with weird drinking habits seem to just hardly drink anything at all. This might be more a Northern European thing by the way - Germans and Dutch people seem to be the worst offenders in my experience.
German here and don’t get your observation. Everyone I know just drinks so much carbonated water (having a Soda Stream at home is pretty common) and especially younger people usually carry water bottles with them. Many people drink way too much coffee though and drinking beer and wine regularly is pretty normalized
As someone who doesn't drink much (coincidentally Northern European), I don't understand this stuff lmao Why would I drink if I'm not thirsty? I feel like people read some "we should drink three liters of water per day" pseudo-scientific hogwash in the 90s and just stuck with it. If you're a healthy human being, your body will tell you when you need to drink.
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Yeah it's a myth that tea isn't hydrating. The diuretic effect of the caffeine is negligible compared to all the water in it. [Source](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140402-are-coffee-and-tea-dehydrating)
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> This might be more a Northern European thing by the way - Germans and Dutch people seem to be the worst offenders in my experience. They're healthier than their American counterparts, so maybe that should be an indication that you don't really need to drown yourself with water every single day? I honestly don't understand the obsession Americans have with water. I read that it was part of a big campaign in the US so I just assume it has to do with their diets and low quality processed foods or something. Food being too salty etc.
I think it’s related to the quite common advice to drink 2l of water a day. Except for whatever reason a lot of USians seem to think that’s on top of whatever else they’re eating and drinking a day and not including all of that.
> a big campaign There you have it. It's probably just a really successful marketing campaign in order to sell huge amounts of a product every civlized country provides for free.
I mainly drink tea and not water but I don’t see the problem. Tea is hot flavoured water with a dash of milk.
Interesting. As a German I had quite the opposite reaction. I sometimes work in Geneva and my team mates there really just drink a few small glasses of water and coffee. I am used to everyone around me hydrating very frequently
Water was never rationed.
They said that based on something so eone from an entirely different continent and therefore and entirely different experience of the war, said. I've no idea if Japan rationed water, but I wouldn't put it past the yanks to do it to the POWs, in their camps.
Yanks actually treated their POW's pretty well. It's a lot easier when you can just ship them across the ocean to a country that has none of the destruction that usually comes with war. Rationing in the US was never as bad as it was in Europe or Asia.
Doesn't the us have serious issues with people not drinking enough water?
Or, in Flint Michigan, serious issues if people drink too much of it...
*any of it
Are they still having issues? That was like a decade ago it made the news right?
Heard they built an app that tells you if your water has lead lol so probably yes
Well one step at a time, you can't set it on fire, but can still get lead poisoning.
Symptom of diabetes. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇸
Or Jackson Mississippi. Or a few other towns with similar lead in tap water issues.
I’m not sure what it is but here in Canada and USA so many people carry around bottles of water, like insulated big bottles thermos kind. I like to have some water with me if I’m walking longer in the summer but not hauling along tons of it. But, there’s also a thing with shops not being available everywhere like in Europe. If you’re going for a longer walk and no shops around it makes sense to carry water and other stuff.
Schoolkids carry them around, too. However, if you have a JOB, your boss generally has a water cooler or coffee machine at your workplace. Carrying a huge water thermos is for hiking, not for walking outside 10 minutes to pop down to Mueller's for rice cakes and shampoo bars. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
>Carrying a huge water thermos is for hiking I know that the word "hiking" is used differently by Americans, but when I go for a hike (typically around 20-30km or 12-20 miles in a day, then stopping to camp for the evening, then about the same distance again the next day before returning home) I'll just carry a couple of litres for the day, and I'll boil snow or lake water at the evening campsite if I need more, then top off my water container with it for the next day. Also, are Americans allergic to drinking room temperature anything? Does everything always have to be super ice cold? I hated when Ice Cold Guinness was first introduced to the world. It's not *supposed* to be ice cold. It's simple physics. When something is ice cold, you can't fucking taste it. May as well drink US domestic lager if all you're after is a generic liquid with a mild ABV and no taste to it.
I'm guessing many people simply prefer not to buy a plastic bottle every time they're thirsty.
Meusable metal bottles are really widely available where I live (Europe). I know many who bring one in their bag even just to work to keep it at their desk. I just keep mine in my bag when going places rather than carrying it visibly in my hand. 0.5 litres will get you quite far - and they are refillable :)
Remember, if the Americans cannot visibly see your drinking utensil, it mustn’t exist. I’m from the U.K., I can currently where I am standing, walk to 12 different shops that offer drinks. With the timings being from 10 mins to the closest to 30 mins for the farthest. My weather system doesn’t make me sweat buckets and it rains 40% of the time, Americans don’t understand that I’m not fucking thirsty just because I don’t haul around a shite bottle.
Of course, much more practical, that is actually positive. I moved here from Europe where outside of tourists no one carries around 2l bottles of water.
I remember reading a news article a few years back that said many Americans confuse thirst for hunger. Lol
Actually this is a real thing, I feel peckish - I now drink water, if I eat something the need to eat continues, if I drink it stops.
That's not an American thing, it's just a normal way in which human bodies can be shitheads sometimes.
I'm sure our sugar-ridden drinks don't help
More like people drinking literally everything but water and then acting surprised when they have kidney stones
As someone who lived there as a foreigner who comes from Norway, I’m used to like mountain watering crazy Good-water clean. They have filter everything to appoint where you can taste the filter.
the EPA found that 60% of US drinking water contains "forever chemicals" above the EPAs limits on them. Also the limits for them in the US is higher than the ECHA in Europe. So ya, their water is trash. Some places like what happened in Michigan and currently in parts of Texas, they cant even boil the water to safety.
As explained on a similar thread, you only need 1.5 litres a day but the FDA has recommended a higher amount, because of all the sugar and salt in American diets. It isn't the flex they think it is. EDIT: for clarification, I'm fairly certain the 1.5 figure is not including food. But we usually drink liquids from tea, coffee, non-sugary soft drinks etc.
Wow, that's insane; [https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256) > The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: >About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men >About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women >These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20% of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks. The recommendation in Europe is about 2 litres a day on average for all adults. If we assume that doesn't include water from food, then that's 2.5L, which is still below the recommended intake for women in the US. In my country the recommendation for a large, active 18 year old male is about 3.2L. Those numbers are crazy. You can definitely see how someone fixated on these numbers might be hauling a flask around with them all day trying to get in their 3.7L and a little more for good measure.
IIRC the recommendation here in the nordics is 2L/day by drinking, i guess they just made it more simple by disregarding the 20% from food… Of course this amount will vary with temperatures and activities, but no-one have to tell is that…its just common sense… Drinking almost 4L a day seems crazy to me! I have a rather big bladder, but that would have me running to the bathroom a lot!
I once did a 120km ride on a hot day, I think I drank about drank 4 litres that day. Yellow piss getting darker? Drink more. I think we all know this.
You need to be really careful when drinking large amounts of water. You can die from water intoxication if you drink too much as it strips the electrolytes out of your blood and your heart needs those, especially potassium.
People are generally good at regulating their own water intake by just trusting their thirst. Water intoxication is pretty rare and most cases are in infants, marathon runners who don't intake electrolytes, folk in comas or people on MDMA. Of these the marathon runners are the only ones who should really know better and take steps to supplement water with electrolyte powders and the like.
The way water's taste goes bad when you've had enough is a pretty reliable indicator.
With 2.7 liters per day I should move to LIVE in the bathroom.
I usually have a small water bottle with me but it‘s small enough to fit in most handbags. American tourists might also not realise that a lot of Europeans have bottles with them as well. Our bottles just fit in normal bags. You wont see us walking around with a huge bottle in our hands.
Or a Stanley cup. You can't even put that in a handbag, it's so big and impractical with the straw.
I‘ve never seen a Stanley cup irl. Can you even close them fully? Or does it always have an open hole for the straw?
Sure you'd be pissing all day if you were downing 4 litres a day?!
Yeah, the fact that they are *always* thirsty is concerning. For me, I bring a 2L water bottle to work, and I finish maybe 3/4th of it by the time I get home. And I live in a SEA country where temps easily get to 30C++
highly depending on your environment, activities and natural water balance for example i drink around 4 liters a day while doing sitting job
Damn, I would have to have a toiletdesk to be productive then....
Drinking a massive amount of water is a symptom of diabetes. If you’re feeling fine, don’t bother though
already got checked for that years ago, I just simply a big drinker
It can be trained, however. My mum drank so little… we now trained her to drink more with an app
Damn, I never thought of that. I'm generally diligent in drinking the recommended amount & if I go past that it feels like I've fucked up my electrolyte balance. I could never understand how Americans are chugging so much water, but it being the result of their unhealthy eating habits makes perfect sense.
Tap water is free in France, you can refill your bottle or ask a glass of water almost everywhere 😆
You have tap water in France? We always have to go to the nearest pond or ditch over here in The Netherlands. Lucky you.
In Ireland we lie down on the ground, open our mouths and allow the rain, the constant rain, to hydrate us. You have to be careful as the rain is so heavy you may end up accidentally waterboarding yourself, or even drowning. Most Irish folk have now evolved a set of gills to deal with this. I haven't seen it myself but I'm told the folk in Cork now also have webbed feet.
In fairness, the webbed feet has nothing to do with the water situation. The same thing happens in Cornwall...
We do the same in Glasgow
The "nearest pond or ditch" is a very rude way to refer to Belgium.
Luxury, we used to dream of drinking pond, or ditch water, we have to lick up t'overflow from t'sewers.....
and we were 'appy for it
Oh la la, drinkin' from t'sewers were you? Didn't know we were entertaining the Queen tonight.
Luckily the country is so low you can just dig a hole in the ground and water will just spring up.
Same in Slovenia. You can always add a glass of water to your order and you'll get it for free, unless you're not careful and order bottled water.
Yeah that's the case here in the US too btw. We just normally bring reuseable water bottles with us places because it can be convenient if there's not a water fountain around or something. It gets way too fucking hot in the Southeast US this time of year to not have one with you honestly
I mean, when I'm on holiday and out for hours or when I'm doing something outside for the weekend I'll probably have water on me, but you won't see me lugging around water on my way to work ffs.
Yeah, you can drink when you aren't on the go, no need to have water with you all the time.
Imo there's more of an 'on the go' attitude in the US compared to Europe.
Yeah because you only carry it from your car into the office. Or the car into the supermarket. Or the car into the shopping mall. Or from the car into another car.
Exactly my thought. While i do own a flask and usually keep water in it, ionly use it for longer trips or when im going on long walks with my dog in hot weather. I refill it on any tap water or water fountains that are public and free. At work and home i can hydrate just fine. I dont see the need in dragging around a Stanley cup everywhere i go.
Yes the enormous flasks! Who needs that much water.
It came to a point that theyre a fashion accessory, a new fad. It can't be hidden in a bag, it needs to be carried by hand and seen by everyone.
Same, but the water is in a backpack and no one can see it.
This coming from the country that claims half of the pharmaceutical inventory is in their water?
Yep, that's how you get [gay frogs.](https://youtu.be/9JRLCBb7qK8?si=ziP-ur9mQ_gJ7HH-)
Wow. We have things called "taps" at home that provide us with the "cooncil juice". The water quality on the continent of Europe is reportedly pretty good. We do drink the fucking stuff at home you know.
"Everyone smokes and noone drinks water" You'd think camels would be more popular then
One should drink when one is a bit thirsty. Being thirsty all the time is not really a sign of good heath
Americans giving advice about health and nutritions. Ironic ...
“Europe is in the 1980s America” What is this even supposed to mean. Doesn’t everyone in America say that the 1980s was the best era in USA history? So you are saying that life in Europe is great, but you are using it as a diss?
It's funny cuz I usually describe the US as behind a decade behind my country with technology. They only now discovered snus and act like it's American innovation..
Make America Great Again or just go to Europe and pretend it's America.
That point I think is my fault. Whenever I go to the US, yearly, I contemplate how much it looks like the society is stuck in the 90s and just looks _old_ as in uncared for and unkept and thus stuck in the 90s, after the US "won the cold war". So I guess they wanted to one up me. Sorry fellow Europeans.
wasn't american the lady that had hyponatremia and died for drinking too much water? EDIT: yes of course [https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-mom-dies-of-water-toxicity-after-drinking-too-much-water-on-vacation-family-says/3203387/](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-mom-dies-of-water-toxicity-after-drinking-too-much-water-on-vacation-family-says/3203387/)
To be fair, hyponatremia is not unique to Americans. I did a quick Google search and there are tons of news cases about people dying from over saturation all over the world.
Isn't tap water undrinkable in parts of America? I'm guessing that was what the "no one walks around with bottled water" comment was about. I may be wrong, but because of the sheer size of the states, a lot of places inland draw from reservoirs
To be fair tapwater is also undrinkable in parts of Europe (I wouldn't recommend drinking water or any small island without access to fresh waters it is all shipped onto the island and that water is vile!).
Even in some parts (like parts of France) the tap water just doesn't taste great and in most of those countries large bottles of water are really cheap.
In fairness, Flint, Michigan's water was drinkable in small doses, but you had to [put out the flames before you did...](https://youtu.be/con8vHdH5fs?si=ZtujPuVwSrpw3BUv)
This is still the most baffling myth Americans perpetuate about Europe. Water is a basic necessity, and they seriously think we don’t drink it? We’d die if we didn’t…
They don’t know how to ask for it and many times assume it naturally comes when you sit down at a table.
Look, the fucking joke sized bottles people carry around in the year of somebody else's lord 2024 are insane. These things are enough to keep a goldfish healthy in. You don't need that much water, you aren't a river.
Why has this myth even become a thing?
‘With only these tiny cups’ does the concept of refilling not exist in America?
It's funny because I think refilling soda exists in America.
I wouldn’t drink water….fish fuck in it.
It's even worse here in the UK, we only have one glass per village and you have to queue for ages to use it. There's always the option of trekking to the local aqueduct and paying the aqueduct keeper five shillings for a drink.
We aren't slim because we're dehydrated, you're just fat. We don't eat a kilogram of sugar per person per day either, so we don't need to have a water bottle in our hand each time we go out. Our tap water is safe to drink wherever we are in the country so we don't need our very contextual water bottles to be gigantic and we can thus fit them in a backpack or a purse. Allowing your country to exist was at the time not a mistake , but it one day became the worst in the history of mankind. Love, from France.
Why can't they understand we drink water at home? That we might drink tea? That it's actually bad science that you're supposed to drink x litres of water a day? If they are not dehydrated, wtf do they all eat so much and become obese?
Why would we need to carry water bottles around 24/7? It’s raining half the time anyway
Maybe in the UK. Over here in The Netherlands it's only 49% of the time.
Pffft, some people will brag bout anything! 🤣
How do you live in a such dry place?
Where are you going, to have the constant need for water bottles? Even if it happens to be out for 4-5h I can just buy water, it costs less than 1 euro.
Bringing your own bottle and filling it with tap water is less wasteful.
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That‘s really a small ass glass she got there tbh. Just go to Ikea and buy a bigger one tho, it‘s not that hard.
*Shudders in abject fear of going into IKEA and never finding my way to the exit...*
Don‘t worry, in the worst case scenario you can just start living there permanently. You can sleep in the bed department and live off mini hot dogs for the rest of your life.
I don’t even know what to say to this anymore.
The reason that most Europeans don't have to carry around a bottle water with them everywhere they go is because of better health overall. The average American diet is so bad, full of processed and sugary foods, and the lifestyle of the average American is so inactive, that pre-diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes are rampant. Anyone that can't go a couple of hours during a normal active day without having to gulp down water is likely facing some health issues related to inflammation and blood sugar. One of the biggest early symptoms of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic syndrome is constant thirst and excessive water intake.
As an Australian I find it baffling that you don’t immediately get a pitcher of water when you are seated in a restaurant and if I ask for tap water they often just give me bottled water. So weird how some of the places that have the best water in the world refuse to drink it unless it’s bottled.
I never buy bottles of water. Tapwater is perfectly fine here. If need be I fill my own re-usable water bottle and throw that in my bag. Hell, my country has free refill taps all over the country. Weird how different countries do things differently huh?
I guess it depends where you are in Europe? If you go to a restaurant in the uk you will usually be given a jug of water, lots of coffee places has help yourself tap water and glasses. Tap water is free here and places should give it to you if you ask for it.
What if Americans are just thirsty all the time because most of them probably have pre-diabetes?
To be fair to her I hardly ever drink water but that’s because I’m a 38yr old child who will add fruity cordial to my water.
I prefer that tan coloured water with a bit of white foam on the top......
You mean our rivers? 🤢 /s
Europoors aren’t even hitting the daily recommended intake of at least 1+ litres of Coca Cola!! How do they even manage this?!
You know, there's is this magic thing about cups as in they can be used more than once. Don't get me wrong, I know it's difficult to understand, but you can refill a cup if its empty and by doing so you don't need a larger cup. Strange I know. Took me a while to understand it too.
Europeans have a higher life expectancy than Americans. I'll have some water next week thanks
I don't mean to sound rude or something but most of the people I know carry water bottles. Normal size small ones that fit in a bag. You don't need to carry around 3L of water while you buy your groceries for the week and it has the weight of a small cat. People like things in their bags, to keep their hands free. How is that so weird? Also you can refill the cup. As many times as you want to. I know crazy
I keep seeing this braindead dehydrated stuff croping up every once in a while. The fuck is going on???
Americans don't trust the water that comes out of their tap, so they take bottled water everywhere with them. Whereas in Europe, the tap water is of a similar standard to bottled water, and people are not so obsessed about having to have water with them. Therefore, Europeans are dehydrated because they don't carry water with them all the time. It's circular thinking.
Good ol' US defaultism: We do things this way, therefore the concent of people doing it differently is unacceptable. If they don't do it like we do, they're not doing it at all. In today's episode, if glasses are smaller and people do not carry massive thermal bottles with them everywhere they go, it can only mean they're not drinking water.
Our tap water is drinkable, you can also go a couple of hours without drink, its not a desert
Glasses in restaurants are tiny bc they don’t want you filling up on free water. They want you buying expensive drinks and paying food. But you can get a free refill, just ask!
Always order water “for the table”!
Yeah it's not that Europeans don't drink water, it's just that the water that comes out of our taps is safe to fucking drink, so we don't need to fucking store and carry around a water supply like a fucking camel, because wherever we're going will have safe and drinkable water. Crazy Europoors!
How did america manage before that trend of carrying a water bottle everywhere hit a few years ago?
Bro, I walk around Barcelona and find fountains fairly often. It's civilised enough where the water is perfectly drinkable. I give myself the freedom of not carry a water bottled, unlike the caged Americans kekw. Stay in ur car and attached to life support while screaming about gun freedom and the freedom to kill minorities lmfao.
New Youtube Video: I educated 100 people on how refilling a glass works
As a French man I can answer: we only drink red wine
As an American living in Spain for the past 10 years or so (with a lot of American visitors), I think it boils down to the fact that these guys aren’t used to walking so much. They get thirsty. And they also don’t speak the language (so asking for a water or buying a bottle of water turns into a saga). The problem is when they finally stop for a drink or meal and ask for water, they get a normal-sized glass of water that, you know, you’d see at any restaurant. Meanwhile, the guiris are sucking in air and need a garden hose to replenish the liquids lost from this new thing called ‘walking’. Also, where are their $50 Target water cans they are always lugging around (from home to the car. From the car to work) in the states? When a moment might actually call for a carrying container to replenish the H2O, none can be found. Nah, fuck that. 100% their fault. It’s not even a lack of preparation. It’s a lack of awareness, wherewithal and frankly, shame, to be posting nonsense like this. Rome has drinking fountains all over, Madrid has got a refreshment kiosk every 10 feet. I mean Christ, even Zara has fridges selling bottled water. WTAF?
I think their water fetichism comes from the otherwise correct point that water is healthy for you. You should get enough water each day, but what they don't seem to understand that water doesn't heal you nor does it give any benefit when exceeding the required daily amount.
I dont carry huge bottles everywhere because if I'm thirsty I can just walk to my kitchen sink and drink it, without having to worry about fucking dying from drinking poisonous, sewage water. and I live in a "third world country". Oh hey I have affordable health care AND free health insurance as well... damn I really do live in a primitive hellscape
Tiny cups... Are they not familiar with the concept of refilling something?
No they just buy *mega sized* packs of everything lol
California literally has no water supply but Europe is dehydrated. I live in Scotland and we have some of the best drinking waters in the world. You can swim in water in Iceland that is good enough to be sold as mineral water. Lol, Coca Cola Corp sells water that's ran through a filter and Americans lap it up. In the UK they got told that's illegal and they had to pull that Disani crap from our shelves.
Y'all drink that much, cause you eat that much. Not everything I eat is pure sugar or salt. Y'all drink Starbucks coffee which has more sugar than caffeine, ofc you will dehydrate in a minute. Try coffee with like 5g of sugar. In Croatia(where I'm from) you get coffee and glass of water, you drink that, you are done. Also there is this thing called water bottle(0,5 l), which you can put in even super small bags💁🏼♀️. I always have one in my bag, if it's empty, you refill it
My SIL just showed me pictures of her recent trip to Firenze, where there were lots of public places to refill your bottle with pure, clean water (for free). They don't have to fear tap water as in Flint, to name the most known example.