Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.
Water in streams, lakes, rivers, and springs is pretty much always a lot cooler than the air. Unless it’s a very small pond or a puddle, water is pretty cool, especially if you go deeper than just the surface to take your water.
30°C air is hot as fuck, 30°C water is a perfect cold shower.
You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?
This is probably why cold water taste so good. It’s natural selection.
There is so many diseases carried in water so there is no doubt that people doing extra effort to get that nice crispy water from the spring will survive longer that people getting warm water from the nearest water body.
My kitchen tap doesn’t carry that flavour
Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.
Have you never been in a natural body of water in the summer? Lakes and rivers are pretty cold, even in the hotter months.
It depends on where you live. In some places they can get reasonable with temps being around 60-80F.
Size matters too.
Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2’.
I grew up swimming in snow runoff so Florida doesn’t sound cold
People don’t understand that they don’t have to agree with a shower thought xD
You don’t have to agree with an opinion. But people don’t get their own facts.
Nothing about a thought has to be factual.
When you make historical assertions it most definitely has to be.
“historical assertions” OP was probably shitting when posting this.
I see you have little experience with how historians actually carry out their work, the moment of shitting does not actually interfere with the writing of history, it is just a natural state not only for the historian, but for any human being.
True. Upvote if it is interesting, thought provoking, well thought out, educational, etc.
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The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.
Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.
poor ragebait
Have you never been in a river in the spring?
hot water is a relatively modern luxury. you probably have a living ancestor that remembers not growing up with easy, or any, access to hot water, just hurtfully cold, refreshing water.
Not necessarily? Icy water would have been rare, but even in the summer water from a stream or a lake is colder than the air, which is enough to make it refreshing. And well water can be very cold.
Yeah, I bet they wished they had shade
I feel like most natural spring water is pretty cool. They didn’t have refrigeration though, so this might be true for icy cold water?
You might only have ice-cold water during the spring if you’re near a river that just flowed down from the mountains but even most well water is going to be much cooler than surface temperatures.
