From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 1 Aug 2025 at 10:51:58 BST, "Martin Harran"  
 wrote: 
  
 > We take regular senior breaks in hotels around the country. I always 
 > pick one with a leisure centre as swimming combined with a steam room 
 > or sauna is my main form of exercise and relaxation. I have noticed an 
 > increasing trend for such leisure centres to have no drinking water 
 > available to iuers, either by fountain or bottled. Hydration is of 
 > major importance after a steam room or sauna and I wonder if these 
 > hotels are infringing Health and Safety rules and risking a negligence 
 > charge if an inexperienced user ended up being dehydrated? 
  
 Since the younger generation (who may have have missed the fact that god 
 supplied land-dwelling vertebrates with kidneys) seem to need to use a water 
 bottle to get through a short medical consultation, you may have a point. 
  
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 Roger Hayter 
  
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