Drinking too much water can actually be dangerous.20 Normally your body manages fluid balance very well, but occasionally people take in so much water that the kidneys cannot get rid of it fast enough and they end up dangerously diluting the sodium levels in their blood, setting off a condition known as hyponatraemia. In 2007, a young woman in California named Jennifer Strange died after drinking six litres of water in three hours in a clearly ill-judged water-drinking competition held by a local radio station. Similarly in 2014, a high school football player in Georgia, complaining of cramps
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