Since most of the body is water-based, therefore, it plays key role and has profound effects on the functioning of every organ of the body. It plays vital role on body chemistry, health disease. We can live for 50 days without food but hardly 10 days without water.  Besides the air we breathe, water is foundation and critical element not only for our health and physiology but also for our survival.

It is most vital nutrient for body’s every function. Water is essential to every one of the millions of chemical processes that maintain our bodies i.e. from digestion and respiration to muscle activity, reproduction, and mental processes. Major functions of water are enumerated hereunder:

• Facilitates normal functions of body-processes and provides energy

• Delivers oxygen and nutrients to different parts of the body

• Regulates blood pressure and helps  body maintain constant temperature

• Assists in digestion, metabolic process and circulatory system

• Prevents and alleviates constipation

• Helps elimination of  toxins, impurities and waste from the body

• Acts as lubricant nd cushion to joints, protects organs and tissues.

• Strengthens the immune system.

• Decreases and prevents risk of cancer of colon, breast and bladder

• Prevents heart disease, renal stones

• Resists diseases and unnatural  premature aging

• Acts as shock absorbers inside the eyes and spinal cord

• Adds glow to skin and keeps it healthy, resilient, moist, supple, and clear and prevents pre-mature aging.

• Improves focus and behavior.

Every cell of every living organism must consume and excrete water in order to function. We lose body water through four processes:

• Perspiration

• Respiration

• Urination

• Defecation

In other words the body water is excreted by way of sweat, breathing, urine, stool and tears. The body is unable to store or build up reserves of water; therefore, it is most important to replenish this loss continuously to maintain water balance for optimal functioning of the body cells and organs.