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Today, drinking water is known to be a good thing; you may have heard that drinking two liters of water a day is good for your health. However, only about 200 years ago, there was big resistance to drinking water. Drinking water was insane and considered unhealthy. For instance, the English were world famous for their dislike of water. One of the reasons for this was the early modern superstition that drinking water causes fluid to build up under the skin, which can lead to edema.
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An 18th-century English physician is said to have said
I now understand why man's head is so far above the ground. It is because it is a painful and arduous task to bring the mouth close to the ground to drink water. Moreover, it is not easy to drink water, because the mouth is flat and the nose protrudes.
One of the reasons why is, in the past, water was not safe. Stored water is easy to perishable without a refrigerator. A 17th-century Spanish botanist wrote,
"In my country, only sick people and chickens drink water".
At that time, people who drank water risked being ostracized by society as eccentric. Many people, even if they were thirsty, drank as little water as possible and quenched their thirst with alcohol or other beverages.
In spite of this, in modern times, scientists have gradually begun to understand the health benefits of water. Then scientists came up with the idea of flavoring water in order to popularize drinking water. That was a carbonated water.
Scientists were not alone in their efforts to persuade people to drink water. As safe water became more readily available thanks to the research and technology of scientists, the idea that water was dangerous and that people should drink alcoholic beverages was no longer acceptable.
This further fueled the old prohibitionist movement among the people. They wanted to stop people from becoming so addicted to alcohol that society collapsed.
In Europe and the United States, temperance activists marched through towns and villages singing songs about the health benefits of water. This was one of the influences that led to the enactment of Prohibition in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
During Prohibition, many pubs served sparkling water instead of alcohol, which led to the widespread consumption of sparkling water.
If either the scientists or the prohibitionists had been missing, the number of people drinking water might not have increased as much as it has today.
