Water is supposed to be good for you. Drinking plenty of water is supposed to prevent kidney stones.
In Poland, we are told to avoid drinking the tap water... it can actually cause kidney stones it is so hard.
We have been buying 5-6 liter bottles of water for drinking at home. Water in restaurants is not common; when you ask for water, you are buying bottles of water (200 or 300 ml usually, but you can sometimes buy a large bottle for the table)... so different than in the US where, many times, water is simply brought to the table whether you will drink it or not.
Patrick has been working out at home and drinking a lot more water (preparing for "parkour"), so we have been going through the bottles pretty quickly.
At work, we are preparing to move to a new building a few kilometers away and I asked about plumbed water to the coffee maker, but I was told that we do not want to drink the water (oh, yeah, I forgot).
I have lived in places with "hard" water, but never where we were advised to not drink the tap water because it can cause kidney stones... maybe the US water works has better requirements and technology so that we can drink the water feeding into our houses.
For now, I find I am not drinking as much water as I should. Which is worse...
kidney stones from not drinking water or from drinking the tap water?
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