To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine and to those who don't and are always seen with a bottle of water in their hand, 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 annually.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine and beer (or rum, whiskey, or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and 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.