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He had an emergency trip to the vet over the weekend with some problems with his plumbing :( So far the diagnosis is idiopathic cystitis, so we've been recommended to get him on a more wet food based diet and to try to get him to drink more.
@ExTra when you say meat juice, do you mean just juice from raw meat or cooked meat?
Doctor_Cake-
I haven't personally tried, but I remember someone here mentioned they regularly put some cooked meat juice into the water bowl and their cats loved it. I guess it's cooked otherwise it'd just be blood? That said, I can't see why you can't try both? After all, they eat raw meat as well as cooked.
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I hope you get this sorted quickly. I would try adding a bit of water or gravy to the kibble, and if you don't already, try using a really wide water bowl, or show him a very slow dripping tap he can access.
They are funny though - I found Maia drinking rain out of a leaf once!
ExTra
Miss_Mouse
Why does he need to up his fluid intake? You thoughts or vets advice?
One of out cats never seems to drink from the water we put out but never seems the worse for it. Our guess is she prefers to find water when she's outside. We've seen her drinking from outdoor plant pots and other collected rainwater. The other seems to prefer bisuits to meat and drinks a little from the bowl. However her favourite source is running water from the tap in the bathroom sink.
Some cats really don't get on with treated water and it may be they can taste the chemicals in it that we're used to. Rainwater might taste more natural to them, particularly if they're an outdoor cat. Ours seem quite happy if there's some algae in the water and our previous cat actively preferred it.