Also because dehydration and injuries are a problem in fulfillment centers, especially during high volume or high heat.

Why should dehydration be an acceptable problem ? i can understand heat and not using air-conditioning, but even soldiers in hot countries manage to stay hydrated.

Soldiers die all the time during training exercises, let alone actual deployment. Dehydration is definitely a cause: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362942/Soldiers-mar...

Because people often don't realize how much water they need.

Where in all of this did you get that someone saw it as an "acceptable problem"? Hell, where did you get that dehydration isn't a problem for soldiers?

I grew up in Texas. Literally everyone I knew, and absolutely everyone who did manual labor, was familiar with the dangers of the dehydration+heat combo. It still happened all the time, despite being common knowledge.

Show me a warehouse actively preventing workers from getting water and I will join the moral outrage. But "dehydration happens in a warehouse during a heatwave" is an obvious consequence, not a shocking fact.

Amazon doesn't actively prevent workers from getting water - in fact, they're quite clear about dehydration being a problem.

However, the job is designed to push people to the limit, so dehydration being a problem is clearly acceptable to Amazon in the abstract. In the facility where I work, depending on where you are, it can be a long enough walk to the nearest water fountain that you risk getting written up for being off task if you water too often, because Amazon is "frugal" with things like that.