Great question,
Thin!
Glad to have you with us and so glad you read the book first! Congrats on a successful path through P1!
I'm with
Allie...regardless of whether we are or aren't supposed to get a certain amount of water, I feel "like death" when I don't get enough now.
Like many here, I carry Nalgene bottles everywhere...literally. I have four and use a new one every other day...I clean/sterilize them in the dishwasher in between uses. I've read that tons of bacteria grows in the commercial ones if you use them continuously without washing them, but they don't do well in the dishwasher and I can't actually get *into* them to wash them in the sink, so...
I find it SO much easier to drink water at work--like a few people mentioned, it's easy to keep sipping when it's right next to you at the computer or if you sip whenever you want to eat. When I wasn't working, though, it was harder to actually have my water next to me. I like the ideas others posted, though.
The nice thing about using Nalgene bottles is that you can see how much you've had at a glance, but that's just my $0.02!
P.S. Where in SoCal do you live, Thin? I'm originally from L.A./the Valley/Simi Valley/Thousand Oaks. I miss it terribly!