Water is essential for human life. It accounts for 65% of our body weight and is crucial for most bodily functions. Any deficit in normal body water – through dehydration, sickness, exercise, or heat stress – can make us feel rotten. Here's a list of things that would progressively happen if you stopped drinking water.

How long can you go without water? When the loss of body fluids outweighs the intake, dehydration occurs. Dehydration is different for everybody - it depends on how much you’re exercising, the temperature around you, and how much you typically sweat - but it can get dangerous quickly.

By the time you feel thirsty your body is already dehydrated; our thirst mechanism lags behind our actual level of hydration. Since we lose water through water vapor in our breath, sweat, urine, and stool, drinking water is essential to balancing out our bodies.

For most people, drinking enough water somehow ends up pretty low on their list of daily priorities. Given that your body is up to 65% water, it's important to make up for that loss by drinking liquids regularly.

Water is essential to our survival—a basic need we all probably take for granted at some point in our day-to-day lives. Drinking more water is not only good for our bodies, but for our minds, organs, skin, and muscles as well.

Surprisingly, the first official recommendation about water intake was made as recently as 2004. According to the Institute of Medicine, the adequate water intake for adult men and women is 3.7 and 2.7 liters per day, respectively.

Around 80 percent of total daily water should be obtained from any beverage (including water, caffeinated drinks, and alcohol!) and the remaining 20 percent from food.

Next time you feel thirsty, never ignore the urge to drink water - your life might just depend on it.


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