we are one of the advanced sociaties we use the metric system

actually 800mls is probably pritty close to what an adverage sized person needs during normal cool weather. Its oviously going to depend on weather, salt content of the water, any medications your on and excercise but 1L is what they have been quoting for normal weather conditions from memory. As i said let your body tell you what you need, unless your 80 or have a neuro imparement it SHOULD be a fairly good indicator, if your pissing brown however or your blood pressure is so low you faint all the time or your kidneys are failing then its ovious your body is wrong

There IS a risk from over hydrating as well, if you force TO much water in then the blood cells effectivly "drown" (well sort of, its a convenient way to put it for those who dont like detailed medical explinations). What hapens is insted of lots and lots of red blood cells with a little plazma surounding them you suddenly have a few blood cells in an ocean and the gas exchange becomes ALOT less because its harder to diffuse across all that liquid. Further more if you do it without matching salt intakes then the molarity of the plazma can be effected. If THAT happens your blood cells (and all the OTHER cells in the body because they are all conected) swell, (if you want to know why look up "osmotic pressure gradients", "isotonic", "hypertonic", "hypotonic" ect) and if this continues to long the cells will actually explode. Not good

That's not what I heard.
Over here they say 1.5 liters a day is the minimum and they advise 3 liters.
And The Netherlands is not a warm country.
Plus there is the fact that she complained of dryness of mouth, is sick (cold), is possibly on meds (bipolar) and often only drinks water while taking a sleep/pain pill at night.
Also, New Mexico is supposed to be a pretty hot state, is it not? Ok, it's winter now..

Never heard of this. You just piss out the excess water.. right?

yea, TO A POINT. Heamodilution DOES happen, look it up if you dont belive me. If the kidneys start to pack up because your making them work to hard or you flush all the salt out of your blood your in ALOT of trouble a side point thats the reason distiled water has a warning lable on the side "NOT for human consumption" REALLY bad for you

Do you want to be around for your kids graduation? Because you are seriously screwing with your body by not hydrating it. Besides stroke and sudden heart attack your body can simply shut down due to lack of water.

No excuses, no shortcuts, just drink, even if you are not thirsty.


So, fill three one liter bottles with water. Do anything you like to it. Make ice tea, lemonade or Tang brew cofee, anything, but make sure you drink enough of those three bottles that when you pee in the morning your urine colour is light enough that you know you are not shutting down your system.

Here is the chart to check against:



1 and 2 is okay, 3, 4, and 5 is your alarm going off and 6, 7 and 8 is the increasingly possibility that you are bleeding into your urine.

lol Alright.. distilled water huh
If your diet is healthy there is not a great chance of drinking too much water.
Maybe if you are only drinking water and not eating anything..

Mine is mostly 1 or 2, sometimes 3 (I think).