@Yeahright I didn’t say they don’t have water and ice, I said they don’t easily get it from the pipes in their house. My husband is Mexican, all the water they drank and ice in the house was from bottled water. Parts of Mexico, like Cancun, where the tourists are, have potable tap water.
Having an abundance of potable tap water is different than relying on bottled water. People are more likely to conserve the water If it’s bottled. In restaurants in Mexico and Colombia my experience is they give you ice in your drink, but not a lot.
I don’t know the water situation in Venezuela. Do they fill the ice to almost the top of the glass before putting in the drink? I think of that as very American (USA). I don’t even remember that being done in the parts of Europe that I’ve been in.