Get your doctor to prescribe it and/or treat it like medicine and take your prescribed “dose” on a schedule.

My wife also hates drinking water. I then bought a soda stream and her consumption increased 5X. No flavoring. Just water.

I have since bought an external soda bottle to reduce cost.

career change to a warehouse. you’ll go through like 20 bottles a day

Add flavoring, like ginger + citrus, melisse, tea. Some teas also can make you more thirsty.

Get the flavor packets, don’t let people shame you for it either! Just get fucking hydrated!

Walter with lemon or lime taste and lots of sizzle

Electrolytes

Maybe try some peppermint tea and other herbal infusions?

I’ve moved over to an amazing zingy/spicy lemon ginger lemongrass licorice root loose leaf that’s incredible.

My point is, herbals might be a good way to go. The thing to watch out for is the weak watery stuff - this is tea after all… If you’re a coffee drinker this might all be a bit bland. Also, stay away from the green and lack teas, they’re all still caffeine from tea leaves

Would an alarm reminding you to drink help? And then tracking how much you drank? If you’re not motivated to drink the water, you might need an external cue. And if you dont track a new habit you won’t know how well you are doing, might only remember/focus on failures, etc.

A watch or phone alarm every 30 min could be good. As for tracking, anything from pen and paper to a fancy fitness tracker.

Herbal tea, hot or cold. Add flavour to your water - crush a couple frozen berries in the glass, add mint, add citrus slices. Try different temperatures: iced, room temp, just boiled. Drinking from a glass or cup instead of a bottle can help.

If you have a stationary job, then just plop a big ass water bottle with a straw on the desk between you and the keyboard for easy access. Water is the only thing I drink after only drinking iced tea every day until I was 18. Remove everything that isn’t water from your home. Turn your bottle into your fidget toy if you have to, having a straw helps even if you use it to open and close it. Hopefully before you know it you won’t even realize you’re drinking water. You don’t need to enjoy it. Same way people don’t enjoy medicine, you put up with because you’re an adult. If that seems too daunting, then you have some other demons you may need to tackle first before being able to get onto water.

Do you play games? Consider it fuel/health, daily requirements. Just chug two tall glasses first thing when you get up.

It helped me a great deal to get a hydration backpack usually intended for sports. I dont even leave the pc a lot but its 3L of water storage that can be consumed while having both hands free (except start&end for like 3 seconds). It needs a bit of getting used to drinking out of a mouth piece but else its the most convinient way of drinking water

I have a filtered water bottle that I keep full. I just keep it handy. If I’m thirsty, it’s less hassle to take a drink from my bottle than to go to the kitchen/break room/café and get a different drink. When it’s empty, I’ll let myself grab a different drink IF I fill the bottle up too.

Try getting a soda stream to add a bit of fizz to your water. That might make it more enjoyable to drink.