Could you drink 4 liters (1.1 gallons, 9 pounds, 4 kg) of tap water every single day?

[MCheetah]

Inspired by this question here, but also real life, cause I have to drink one liter daily now. I tried the "all water diet" before weight loss surgery. I bought this $25, four liter jug of water. And truth be told, I couldn't do it! NINE POUNDS of water, daily? Tap water, too. (Since I don't have money to be buying Spring Water like that.) And lukewarm tap water after an hour or two. Everyday, I BARELY made it to halfway through the bottle.

Lots of people, especially health people, like to claim they could easily drink this much water every single day. But come on... Be honest with yourself. Could you really drink four liters, one gallon, nine pounds, four kilograms of water, every single day? Let's just say, for at least 60 days.

And no, you don't get the American-style gallon jugs either (those seem way easier to down, due to its "slim at the top" shape). It's gotta be this big 4 liter jug up here. And tap water, too. You can refrigerate it and keep it cold, though. Straw optional.

Yes, I could do it.

No, that's too much.

[Dinklex3]

I definitely could, but I wouldn't want to lol.

We used to do that at work. Remind each other to hydrate. When 1 person wanted water we all have to drink until that person stopped drinking. I wouldn't do it everyday, it'd be 3-5 times a week.

In basic training (8 weeks) we were required to drink 16 canteens of water a day. We all just lied and said we did when we didn't.

1 gallon of water goes by pretty fast though.

[Sirenboobzilla]

I average 3 liters on any given day. Gym days though I do surpass a gallon easily. And I live tap. Grew up on New York tap

[AviatorTom]

4 liters a day is too much water, which can be dangerous. Several years ago, a radio station ran a contest where people were to drink as much water as possible in 24 hours... one of the contestants died from "water intoxication", their kidneys failed to keep up with that much water in the body, which eventually led to internal poisoning and death.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for the mho

[Lionman95]

Who said you need to drink for 4litres a day? I drink 2-3l a day but I mostly do that because I don´t drink coffee so I use drinking water as a kind of substitute. 4l sound a little too much for me and there is also an amount of water that is too much.
Though drinking water is healthy it can become dangerous when you overdo it.

[TryMeBee]

I used to find 17 oz of water impossible. But I've worked up to where I can drink 85 in a day if I want to. I think I could work up to drinking a whole gallon a day given a week or two. But I wouldn't really benefit from that since it takes far less to hydrate me, and everything after that just goes straight through..

[Jacobbbb]

That's... a whole lot of water. I'd do what I'd have to do at the end of the day but that would be a task for sure 😂 and the fact that it's tap water which contains hardly any nutrients unlike the purified stuff from the store.. Yeah I'm not sure on that one. But hey sometimes it is what it is lol

[Fuentes]

I could drink filtered water this way but tap no way that's nasty & gross I don't and haven't drank tap ever. It's not clean in my state or any state I ever lived on. The only time I was forced to tap water was when I had to fill my camel packs during Field exercises years ago. But other then that I only drink water, sometimes tea and rarely juice. But haven't drank soda since I was 19.

[WindAtMyBack]

When I was doing construction work in high temperatures I used to drink about two gallons of liquid a day. About 1.5 gallons was straight water. I only drank non-water early in the day before it got too hot.

But that's a special case. At my age and the sedentary lifestyle I have today I could probably drink a gallon a day, but I wouldn't want to. There is also no reason to.

[Guy__]

I can and used to do 6 or more liters of filtered bottle-fill-up water every single day when I went to highschool. Make sure to load up on salt and other minerals.

But I rather drink something nutritious, pretty much haven't had pure water for years.

[JDavid25]

Yeah I drank a gallon of water all the time throughout the day.. I need to start again.. It quenched my thirst like no other, and it also gave me a decent amount of energy.. I prefer it lukewarm because that way I can gulp it all down and not get a cold throat..

[Stoner710]

Yea I refill a half gallon liquid bottle and drink that every day since it’s been so hot. I drink about 2-3 of those bottles a day I use the tap of course I’m getting water form 420 feet under the surface of the earth a lot of minerals in the water.

[jhl_x]

I do it daily, and can take even more when working from home. Drinking water is an anxiety trigger for me, so I drink quite frequently and I always carry a water bottle with me.

[ShadezMcgee]

I can do at least a liter and a half a day, maybe more if outside and it being stupid hot, otherwise, hell no.

[Chazmatazz269]

I’m sure i could. I generally drink 80-100 ounces a day anyway. If i’m exposed to more heat and/or sun, another 48-60 ounces is negligible.

[Blackcosmo]

I don't think I could and if there's the smallest chance I would, I'd be sick.

[ChiTown33]

Maybe if it's a pretty hot day and I'm laboring.

[AsaKyo]

I love water, but I don't know if I could drink that much in a day lmao

[genericname85]

in summer i could and i do. but i don't force drink water by any metric. the human body is smart enough to know when to drink. drinking too much is probably not good.

[Daniela1982]

Not without running to the bathroom every 30 minutes.

[LiamSawyer]

I drink about 3 liters of water per day and that's about my limit.

[douride2]

Not all at once I couldn't. Most days especially in the heat of summer I come close to drinking that much.

[BHooper]

Not tap water. I HATE tap water. Filtered water I could though. 💧

[Charliefretz329]

I drink at least 1 gallon every day in the Florida summers. And I work in the heat so I’d probably die if I didn’t

[Surely]

Not every day, but most days. Especially in the summer time. Possible even more.

[Mangospacho]

That’s what I normally do especially if I’ve been outside in the heat.

[mastema]

Sure, easily. I have done for about 20 years now.

[Anonymous]

I drink that much of tap water everyday all the time

[Opinion Owner]

I have done for the last two year, I don’t get why people make it out to be so hard. I bought myself a gallon water bottle two years ago and I literally finish it before 7pm.

[jengeorge26]

Wow that’s way too much

[jamesgoldman]

Nah, might manage in fruit juice

[moonpie89]

No. I definitely need to drink more water

[exitseven]

I try to drink a gallon every day

[Xawyx-2]

Maybe, how many liters is that?

[JesseJayNeak]

No. Only half

[msc545]

No!!!

[Anonymous]

no..