I do care if water dumps on the ground. We are having severe water shortages in my area in Italy. Water dumped on the ground in the chicken pen serves no purpose. I collect the warm “dirty” water daily when I give the girls fresh cool water. The collected water goes on the garden. The garden...
My chickens were constantly kicking dirt and straw and what have you into their water bowl until I raised it up. You could put your waterer on a platform of some type.