How important is water?

[Wizzo]

Did You Know?

Water is an essential nutrient that regulates body temperature, transports oxygen and nutrients to cells, cushions joints, and protects organs and tissues.
 
The human body is more than 80% water!
 
How much is enough? Take your weight in pounds, divide by two, and that's  the number of ounces you need each day!
 
Drinking water helps your body get rid of harmful toxins.
 
Without enough water, people quickly become fatigued.
 
Nearly every function of the human body requires water!
 
Three quarters of the US population are chronically dehydrated.

More than one third of the US population mistake thirst for hunger.
 
A recent survey of successful dieters reveals that nearly all use water to deter hunger pangs.

Losing only two percent of your body's water can have serious effects on short-term memory and concentration.

[Alianora La Canta]

I'm not sure the conversion quite works, since I apparently need 5 litres a day (and I weigh less than 100kgs!), but there's no denying that water is essential.

[Dare]

water is very important for making and keeping friends as well

[Steven Roy]

I thought the most important job it did was control engine temperature.

[romephius]

Here in Oz at the industry sites and in the Army we get advised on the minimum amount of water per day is 2 litres if you aren't working hard......at one site they suggest upto 6 or 7 litres in a day also using a electrolyte replacement additive.... not so sure it's practicle but that's what they say.....

Rom

[Ian]

You've all missed the most important one.....Making Beer. 

[cosworth151]

It makes very good ice. I wonder how may rum and cokes I need to drink every day to get 105 ounces of ice?

[Dare]

water as in rain,something we need here,it's rained
2 maybe 3 times in last 10 weeks

[johnbull]

water as in rain,something we need here,it's rained
2 maybe 3 times in last 10 weeks

It p 1 ssed down here yesterday.

We needed it too.

[Steven Roy]

It rains here every day.  I could do without it for a few months.

[cosworth151]

It rains here every day.  I could do without it for a few months.

Were is that, Steven Roy?

By the way, Dare, we should get rain the next few days.

[Steven Roy]

The west of Scotland.  The land of horizontal rain.  Quite why we have weather forecasters is beyond me.  Cold wet and wind covers 300+ days per year.

[Dare]

Steven a friend of mine married a girl
from Campletown,ever heard of it?

[Alianora La Canta]

The weather over in Derbyshire's pretty random. I think we've had a three-week summer (last week of August, first two weeks of September), preceded by the sort of rainfall quite a lot of people call "Biblical". The local radio station even called my home town "Chesterfield-on-Sea" after the June floods. We've hit a happy medium now, though it is clearly autumn...

And as for forecasters, I think some F1 weatherpeople could easily get employment. The aforementioned radio station made a forecast (operative word here) a week ago that "it should stay dry for the rest of the day". I was about half a mile away from the radio station building at the time, and it was throwing it down with rain. It had been for half an hour and it carried on for another hour-and-a-half...

[Steven Roy]

Dare,
I think you mean Campbeltown which used to be home to an air base RAF Macrihanish.  It is even further west than me and pretty much open to the worst the Atlantic can deliver. 

Details of the town and the air base can be found below.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbeltown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Machrihanish