Ah good point. My bottle is 700mLs. I have a bad habit of just drinking all of the water at once. It's like as soon as I start drinking my body realizes how thirsty it is and just wants all of it at once! A "water per-hour" is definitely a healthier way to go about it and I'll try it out. Thanks! You bring up a great point with "Ask people for things, not machines". I tend to try to do as much stuff as I can online or via e-mail as I can rather than in-person or on the phone. My fiance has been trying to get me to do more "talking to people" type things myself but I've been pushing back pretty hard. It's definitely something I need to work on.
Bedouins consume all the water they have on hand as quickly as they can, I don't know what the science of water is, but I have always wondered if people who live in the desert all their lives are onto something here. It might just be a T.E. Laurence lie, I read it in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Laurence made a lot of the stuff in that book up.
If it's not a lie, then I wonder if it's something the body gets used to doing? I've heard that when you're really dehydrated you're not supposed to gulp as much water as you feel like drinking as it causes cramps or some kind of discomfort. I guess I should look up rate of absorption.