Yeah. Sometimes I'll put a few drops of lemon or lime juice into the water to make it more palatable...

Water kind of is an acquired taste, though. Back home (where the climate was much more humid) I could get away with getting enough water by drinking coffee and coke. Then I moved to a dryer climate and I started feeling really quite sick: coughing with dry irritated airways, constipated etc etc etc.

I started carrying around a sipper bottle and I'd drink as frequently as I could to try and get 3 per day down me. It helped me out HEAPS. My throat felt better... Took about a week but the constipation went away... My skin felt more supple, too. I guess flavouring the water does help with getting it down you (studies showed people drank 90% more on average when it was flavoured). But you do need to be careful with respect to the calories in the water. And... You don't need them or the vitamins or the sodium...

Just recently... I've started actually feeling like water (instead of coke) when I'm thirsty. Never thought that would happen. For the longest time I'd start to crave coke and had to consciously reinterpret that into a desire for water. Now... I actually crave (and prefer) water because drinking it helps me feel more hydrated (whereas the stuff in coke mostly gave me the short lived illusion of hydration).

With respect to the constipation: Dried fruit. Really. Apricots, prunes, raisins / sultanas... Give yourself a decent hit of them in the first instance then really keep up on the water and it really should lift :-)

Also... When I feel like snacking I'd try and drink a glass of water and then wait 10 minutes to see if I still felt like snacking... It has done wonders for weaning me off potato chips :-)