Talmud for Eruvin 10:6

לֹא יַעֲמֹד אָדָם בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָחִיד וְיִשְׁתֶּה בִרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים, בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים וְיִשְׁתֶּה בִרְשׁוּת הַיָחִיד, אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן הִכְנִיס רֹאשׁוֹ וְרֻבּוֹ לִמְקוֹם שֶׁהוּא שׁוֹתֶה. וְכֵן בְּגַת. קוֹלֵט אָדָם מִן הַמַּזְחֵלָה לְמַטָּה מֵעֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים. וּמִן הַצִּנּוֹר, מִכָּל מָקוֹם שׁוֹתֶה:

One may not stand in a private domain and drink in the public domain, or in the public domain and drink in a private domain, unless he brings his head and most of his body into the place where he drinks. [This, when he drinks with vessels of which he has need — a decree lest he come to bring them in (to his domain). But with vessels which he has no need of, it is permitted, even if he does not bring his head and most of his body into the domain (of the water)]. Likewise, with a vat (for wine-pressing), [vis-à-vis the tithe (ma'aser). If his head and most of his body are in the vat, he drinks without tithing, this being "casual" (as opposed to "fixed") drinking, but outside the vat, he is not permitted to drink without tithing, this being "fixed" drinking.] One may receive (water) from a mazcheilah (a roof-gutter) [It is called "mazcheilah," for anything which "crawls" along a wall or on the ground is called "zochel," viz. (Deuteronomy 32:24): "zochalei afar" ("crawlers in the dust")] below ten tefachim [It is understood thus: One may stand in the public domain and receive (water) from the mazcheilah in a vessel (which is held) less than ten tefachim (from the ground of the public domain. ("receive":) specifically, as explained in the gemara. But he may not press his mouth or a vessel to a mazcheilah which is less than three tefachim from the roof, even if it is less than ten tefachim (from the ground of the public domain). For since it runs all along the wall and is less than three tefachim from the roof, it is regarded as the roof, and it ("pressing," etc.) would constitute carrying from the roof, a private domain, to the public domain.]; and he may drink from a pipe in any event. [That is, whether "receiving" or "pressing," for a pipe always projects out into the public domain. (The gemara qualifies this as referring to a pipe which is not four by four tefachim, and so, not a domain unto itself.)]

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