• Question: what would our body be with out water?

    Asked by shannon to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Well the obvious answer would be dry….

      But aside from being stored in all of our tissues, water is a major component of the cytoplasm of our cells and even a single cell cannot survive without water.

      Although they don’t like too much water either, most types of human cells will die if you put them in pure water for too long and even people can die from drinking too much water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication).

      Really, we are very delicate and it is amazing that we can survive for as long as we do!

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