Run from a couple of pints I see preferring water (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Run from a couple of pints, I see, preferring water A + QUA <r> T (=a couple of pints, i.e. imperial measure; “ run (=R, on cricket scorecard) from” means letter “r” is dropped) + I + C (=see, in textspeak)