This can vary depending on sex, age and the climate that you live in among other factors
New research has found that two litres - or eight glasses of water - a day might be too much for most people.
Some 3.6 litres of water comes from food for a typical person, meaning that they need less than two litres of drinking water each day. . Participants drank a glass of water which replaced some of the hydrogen molecules with deuterium - a completely harmless stable isotope of hydrogen. The rate in which the extra deuterium was eliminated shows how quickly the body is turning over water.
Top Trending Stories Today Professor John Speakman from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences, explains: "Water turnover is not equal to the requirement for drinking water. Even if a male in his 20s has a water turnover of on average of 4.2 litres per day, he does not need to drink 4.2 litres of water each day.
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