# Health benefits of drinking water?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-benefits-of-drinking-water/960462 "2022-03-04T16:30:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-benefits-of-drinking-water/960462/6 "2022-03-04T16:56:40Z")

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> [@Roger\_That](#):
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> Oh, you’re drinking water in other forms? Well, make it pure water then.”

But not _too_ pure.

> [@Very pure water dangerous to drink?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-pure-water-dangerous-to-drink/959706/160):
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> This reminds me of Randall Munroe asking his friend (who worked at a nuclear power plant) what would happen if he tried to go swimming in the pools where they stored spent nuclear fuel. His friend thought for a bit and then said “you’d die from the gunshot wounds.”

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