Medieval folk didn't drink alcohol to avoid dirty water

[Boundegar]

@Glitch

I’ve never heard anyone suggest that pre-modern peoples conciously avoided water and instead drank alcoholic beverages. That’d be absurd.

I have, and yes it’s absurd. The artesian well is not a modern invention, and before fracking and factory farming, the aquifers were pretty damn clean.

@Medievalist

Well, Medieval Jews avoided still water and considered it unclean, but that’s kind of a special case.

Would that include well water?