WSJ on that Immortan Joe shit

Lol, 1 liter is nothing. But yeah okay, it could be a liter of water for the poor thirsty AI data centres.

2027: “Do you really need three meals a day?”

Do not my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

Water SUCKS! Gatorade is better

Bezos (owner of WSJ) is famous for hating his employees's basic biological needs.

Brawndo! It's got electrolytes!

journalist drinking 6 pumpkincinnamoncock flavoured chaimoccalattuccinos for 18 bucks each to then sit down and tell people they don't need a whole liter of water

40 us fl oz = 1.1829 L

I only have near a bottle of water if I am at work at 30°C or more. But maybe it's because I'm Spanish.

It's got what plants crave!

🎶 Waaater sucks! It really, really suuuucks! Waaater sucks! 🎶

Thanks

Or they want to sell more plastic per ounce.

I ditched my 40oz bottle for a 64oz bottle. The fuck is this journalism.

To be fair, if you ask a doctor there is not much reason for drinking water beyond when you're thirsty.

That was 2023...

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-january-2023-inflation/card/to-save-money-maybe-you-should-skip-breakfast-fSd6mz0miaAPhUFb2jgy

The article seems to be a list of products you can buy things you can drink to get your daily hydration that aren't boring old water.

You need around 2 litres a day

Bezos wants your water for himself

Edit: this is WSJ not WaPo

Wall Street* wants your water for themselves

Except it's completely true - rare for WSJ, I know, but not completely unheard of. The weird hype around really unnecessarily excessive water intake is "Facebook Grandma Nutrition"-level bullshit. Healthy people have a reliable, fine-tuned mechanism for figuring out when water is needed: it's called being fucking thirsty

Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid

While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.

Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as "boring" might mean that you're drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It's not that those other things are not hydrating, but they're unhealthy for other reasons.

The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves

I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠

The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There's no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you're thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml

But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.

While true, as I understand it, for some people needing water makes them feel hungry rather than thirsty

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/wellness/hunger-vs-thirst-are-you-eating-when-you-should-be-drinking/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nomanazish/2021/06/30/eight-surprising-signs-you-could-be-dehydrated-and-how-to-fix-it/

As @9point6@lemmy.world pointed out, Bezos is the owner of WaPo, not WSJ, and thus, the Wall Street wants our water, not Bezos alone.

People are drinking water right from under the data centers!

Edit: this place really is cancer. Bootleg-ass redditor nest

Sadly that is something many people can't rely upon. I am not that old, and have a tendency to get pretty dehydrated before i get thirsty at all. Old people are famous for getting so dehydrated that they get delirious - ask any nurse working in a hospital, they will agree that this is the case. With summer temperatures rising this will hit a lot more people of the already affected groups, and additional groups which are not sensitized yet towards that issue.

I agree that most people do not need to drink 3 liters of water per day. But what happens is that people aim for that amount and then land somewhere around 1.5-2 liters / day, which is a pretty good amount for normal days, and they will be more alert towards their water intake on hot days, which prevents deaths.

1.2 L is cleary not in the realm of "unnecessarily excessive water intake" though.

ah, my bad.

And if you're in the subset of people who struggle to register thirst, either through perceiving it as hunger or just not registering it at all; use the pee test.

If your last pee was yellow, drink some water. If clear or nearly clear, you're fine.

If brown, drink lots of water and pray to Dionysus to become hydrated before the hangover kicks in.

over an entire day, sure. needing to carry a 1.2l container around all day seems to me overkill. carry a smaller bottle, refill it when needed, drink a glass of water with your meals etc. remember, juice, tea, coffee, coke etc are mostly water and also count towards your water intake

Going based on thirst is a good indicator,

After many visits for my daughter with different doctors, all of which were different specializations, the consistent advice from all of them was "going by thirst" is absolutely wrong.

They each said if you wait to be thirsty, you are already dehydrated.

Reposting because this is completely wrong.

After many visits for my daughter with different doctors, all of which were different specializations, the consistent advice from all of them was "going by thirst" is absolutely wrong.

They each said if you wait to be thirsty, you are already dehydrated.

It was news to me because I grew up with "drink when you are thirsty".

Thirst is something no one can rely on. This is the same information I got from multiple doctors each in different fields.

By the time you register thirst, you are already dehydrated.

Absolutely false. A few years ago I had to take my daughter to several doctors each in a different field.

Each repeated one consistent fact: "By the time you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated."

1.5 - 2 liters a day is perfectly fine if you don't just eat dry, salty food. Vegetables contain a ton of water.

How the hell am I going to show off my peer-approved, corporation-branded water bottle?

too much of the other stuff

or that you’re a shill , writing a seo prop piece knowing full well coke is a financial supporter of your “newspaper”

Won’t someone please, think of the data centres!

There is a difference between "drinking a glass of water wouldn't hurt you" and "you are dehydrated and it is medically relevant". Every organism on this planet can easily cope with a reduction in available water if it isn't severe. The operating conditions of a human body, if formalized, would only state a minimum of water intake, because the optimal amount of hydration varies wildly from person to person, and it is also dependent on outside circumstances, like heavy work or high temperatures.

During the winter months, i am completely fine with around 1 liter of fluid intake per day most of the time when sedentary. During the last 2 months, i have topped out at around 7 liters/day (i do sweat a lot), which made me a bit nervous and i made sure to increase my normally very low salt intake a bit, to prevent running out of electrolytes.

Yeah but we didn't listen and now all the food is poison.

God I hate how this may actually be the motivation behind this article.

The author of the article seems to think people use water bottles because they justlike, enjoy drinking water constsntly for no reason. (Its fine if you do) Or some "misguided" advice about how much to drink daily.

When people probably just carry them so when they are thirsty, they have something cheap and not unhealthy to drink.

You should drink whenever you want to, or are mentally thirsty. That being said, after many years of being a child in school (water fountains tasted like drinking chalk), i had to train myself to feel thirsty again without being dehydrated. Probably a safer bet to just go by pee color or have a cup or two of water at dinner/during exercise.

Yeah, until that mechanism isn’t working anymore, as distraction nowadays is a real issue. Too often I forget about water intake if I don’t have water next to me.

Additionally, go ask dermatologist what they think about water intake. You can literally see differences in skin health, especially long-term damage which cannot be reversed.

And I think it's even broader: If I'm drinking water, I'm not buying any other drinks. I'm not supporting the economy, I'm only drinking water.

I drink 3 of those a day, at minimum.

So what are you supposed to do, have a recurring alarm clock every hour?

sort of, yes

Like you are supposed to take breaks from sitting and staring at a screen instead of going 8 hours straight.

/me laughs in POTS

I'm at 3 liters a day of mostly electrolyte water, 30oz (0.88 liter) at a time.