To  paraphrase W.C. Fields, "I don't drink water,  because fish screw in it."
 To  my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...  and  those who don't..

As Ben Franklin said: In  wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom, in water there is  bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled  trials, scientists  have demonstrated that if we drink 1  liter of water each day, at  the end of the year we would have absorbed more  than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli,  (E. coli) - bacteria  found  in feces. In  other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of  poop..

However, we  do NOT run that risk when drinking wine &  beer (or  tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because  alcohol has to go through a purification  process of  boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
  
Remember:
Water  = Poop,
   Wine  = Health
Therefore, it's  better to drink wine and talk stupid,
than to drink water and be  full of shit.

There  is no need to thank me for this valuable  information: I'm  doing it as a public service!