Ask HN: How do you like your water?

/r/hydrohomies

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My family owned a water company the whole time I grew up until my dad passed...

I personally find water to be best at what I refer to as "buoyant".

The water should be the same, subjective, temp as your body. So when you drink it, you feel only the physical properties of the water, not warmth, nor cold.

I can drink a LOT more water this way - and it helps with hydration, which is different to cooling or warming the body.

Only rarely do I like ice, but when I do ; crushed.

But body-temp water is ideal.

First liter: sparkling out of the refrigerator, no ice. After that still (bottled or tap), cooler than the room temperature but not refrigerator cold.

Unless I'm in Arizona. In Arizona I fill the glass halfway with crushed, the rest with cubed (keeps them from organizing batallions against your face) and then with any fluid I can get my hands on.

(I guess another caveat is when I'm in California, where my M. O. is that of burning through crates of whatever brand of lightly-flavored canned sparkling water we're on that week.)

Cold from the refrigerator dispenser, but with no ice.

Warm filtered water... bottled from the store or from a reverse osmosis system like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/373405371363

Kitchen tap water only, no bathroom tap water.

sparkling with a splash of bitters. I have a home kegerator setup from my homebrewing days that is only used for carbonated water now.

Cool Well Water (no additives)

Filtered, room temperature.

I like my water wet.