Culture Shock : Part un : Water

Although its nearly a year late to write about culture shocks, still better late than never. Coming straight to the point, we have to buy water from our university cafes, I have come to know from culture-shocked 'mates' from other universities as well that they don't have water-reservoir or something like that from where you could fill up your bottle, or tactically use your hand to drink some much needed water, when you are tired, thirsty or right after a meal. A small bottle costs 60-80 pence and it takes around 3 seconds to finish it in one go. Whenver I am bound to 'buy' water, I think of my school days in an impoverished, over-populated, hot and humid country and my university days in a less impoverished, populated, hot and humid country, and wonder how the laws of supply and demand fail to make any sense here. When there is more demand for water say like in hot and humid and polluted countries, its supposed to be expensive, a candidate to be sold in bottles...but where the demand is less... like in cold, developed, cleaner countries where people don't get thirsty often any ways (or live on alcohol)...water could be made easily available and ofcourse free....but NO...shock shock !! There are no free lunches...or free water...take it or leave it.