I carry a reusable metal or glass water bottle. Problem solved.

When I was a child in the 70s we all drank from public water fountains, most of which don't work any more or just aren't around.

I think sometimes younger people don’t have a great understanding of life in the 60s/70s/early 80s. I played sports and was in marching band. We did two weeks of band camp during the summer. The field temperature was often 115 degrees. There were no black flag days. We practiced all day, broke for dinner, and then rehearsed for a couple of hours at night. All outdoors. It was hot as hell. Of course we drank water. We had those huge plastic water containers and paper cups. We also ate a lot of fruit. People didn’t go without water.

My oldest child is 30. Plastic water bottles weren’t really a thing when he played football. But they always had a ton of water on the field. The coaches watched them drink to be sure they stayed hydrated.

We also had water fountains. We drank from the garden hose. And we drank a shit-ton of kool-aid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

No long term negatives. Not one person has been able to proove any long term ill effects of occasional "dehydration"

Because actual, medical (aka real) dehyadration is usually the result of illness and is fairly rare. Nobody is getting dehydrated from normal activity, even playing sports. Being thirsty is not dehydration.

Anonymous wrote:Gen-X er here. Don't you guys remember, that water fountains can spread things like hepatitis? That happened in my childhood. I give my kids water bottles, reusable of course. I also recall having an aluminum Girl Scout flask for water and stuff, so wasn't like we didn't drink water.

Please tell me you're not serious. If you are, you might just be too dumb to live.

Anonymous wrote:Another 60s kid here. I carried a plastic cup with water in it. What an innovation.

Boomer here. One year just before time to go off to girl scout camp, my aunt gave me a collapsible cup. I wish I had tried it out at home before I took it to girl scout camp. The water ran out of it faster than I could drink it. It looked like the link below. Seeing as how they still exist 45 years later, maybe they are better made now.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coghlan-s-Collapsible-Tumblers-2-ct-Box/28662845?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=473&adid=22222222227019111037&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=62912891049&wl4=pla-99438974889&wl5=9011674&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=113139824&wl11=online&wl12=28662845&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4Nusm9Hi5AIVF8pkCh27IgzvEAQYASABEgJWZfD_BwE

Even reusable water bottles have become a big problem. People are moving to metal ones now and getting rid of the millions of hard plastic ones.

Reusable plastic waterbottles is an 8 billion dollar industry. That is a lot of plastic that is still impacting the environment.

Single use plastic water bottles are horrific and hopefully are pretty much on their way out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

No long term negatives. Not one person has been able to proove any long term ill effects of occasional "dehydration"

So? If something has immediate negative effects but no long term effects that we know about, it’s good?!

Come on! I’m a Baby Boomer and people like you give us a bad name.

Anonymous wrote:I was born in the 50s. Sometimes we drank right out of the garden hose! We also drank a lot of Kool Aid. Now I might buy a plastic bottle of water but when it's empty I refill it about 20 times from the tap before I put it in the recycle bin.

Yes! Also the metal canteens in Scouts.

How frequently do you see single use plastic water bottles, really? I have two kids, and I never see them. Most kids have plastic or stainless steel reusable water bottles. I'm Indian, my family has used stainless steel thermos' for as long as I can remember. My family kept our water in clay pots back home (because the water was brought from the well in said clay pots).

Gen-X er here. Don't you guys remember, that water fountains can spread things like hepatitis? That happened in my childhood. I give my kids water bottles, reusable of course. I also recall having an aluminum Girl Scout flask for water and stuff, so wasn't like we didn't drink water.

Agree with OP. Also a snack every few minutes. Every activity had to have a snack. More advertising.

I was born in the 50s. Sometimes we drank right out of the garden hose! We also drank a lot of Kool Aid. Now I might buy a plastic bottle of water but when it's empty I refill it about 20 times from the tap before I put it in the recycle bin.

Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

We need to model our behavior after that generation by asking what they did, so we get some solutions.

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

No long term negatives. Not one person has been able to proove any long term ill effects of occasional "dehydration"

Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.