By:  Andreas Moritz
Posted:  September 5, 2012 — updated 2016

The human body is composed of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. To provide nourishment, eliminate waste and conduct all the trillions of activities in the body, we need water. Most modern societies, however, no longer stress the importance of drinking water as the most important ‘nutrient’ among nutrients. Entire population groups are substituting water with tea, coffee, alcohol and other manufactured beverages.