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An ordinary standard for diverse persons is one milliliter for each calorie of food. He suggested that the last sentence was possibly ignored and the statement as a whole interpreted as you must drink eight glasses (2.5 liters) of water each day.
In all of this research, he found no evidence to support drinking of eight glasses of water per day. Despite this lack of evidence, the typical advice is: According to most authorities, a sedentary person should drink at least eight glasses of water (about eight ounces each) per day. That totals a whopping half-gallon for the average couch potato. In metric land, eight glasses works out to roughly 1.9 litres.