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Why is water so important for out body?

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Water is important for our body because of the following reasons:
  1. Water is a major constituent of all bodily fluids such as blood and plasma.
  2. Water is essential for digestion of food, absorption of food and also excretion of wastes from the body.
  3. Water is useful to cool the body and regulate temperature. When it is hot, we sweat from our skin.
  4. A correct concentration of salts is maintained by water, which makes conduction of nerve impulses possible.

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