If you always drink a glass of water when you are eating or after eating, your stomach will be damaged. If you always gather the amount of water for the day and drink it quickly in one time, Then this does not help you to have a healthy living condition, and if you often use beverages as water to supplement the body's needs, then you are not far from losing weight.
Switching from soft drinks to water is one of the best ways to have a more healthy lifestyle and lose some weight.
I think we only value water as much as we should be if we experience some lack of it.
Imagine we had only access to dirty water for a while. We would need to invest a lot of time and money to filter it and make it drinkable.
Water is the most important resource in the world. We can live a week without food, but not without water.