Keep in mind that forcing a laying hen to go without a source of water for any length of time can affect her egg production.
Like the others, I have my waterers up on cinder blocks. Change the water once a day and clean the waterer once a week, no big deal.
I don't think the day will ever come when I will beat my chickens out of bed. They are day people, I'm a night person. Both of my coops have waterers in them and I've never had a problem as a result of those waterers.
My older birds have an automatic pop door so technically they could get...