I'm sorry, I know things happen, but this just seems like maybe a Darwinian (survival of the fittest) mistake: knowing you carry fuel, to blithely swig from a bottle without checking, or cruel Scout comeuppance for drinking from a water bottle not your own.
Why is the fuel anyplace near the water at night? Keep them far apart, keep them labelled, keep them feeling different- some amazingly creative ideas here, but different-shaped cheap bottles are available at the 7-11, full of bonus! free drinking water- and check first before swigging. Keep yourself well-enough hydrated that you can still think straight enough to remember to keep yourself from careless danger. As was mentioned, keep the Heet in the Heet bottle, that's about as distinctive a plastic bottle as you can get. The extra- what, 1 ounce? weight well spent to keep your dumarse safe. I just weighed a full 12 fluid ounce bottle and it weighs 11.3 ounces, one of you smart folks can probably convert that for us so we know the actual weight of using the safest bottle.
I don't need to carry that much fuel on most of my trips. I use a platypus for water and a bottle with a lift-up squeeze spout, packed in a ziploc to keep the spout down, for fuel. It's pretty simple, it's pretty light, and it works.
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