globalmerchant, this is my last post on this.

 

My advice to you is to read a little more on it. Drinks that dehydrate you (such as coffee and coke because of the caffeine) surely do not count towards the water intake, in fact you should probably compensate with more water.

 

But if you have a piece of watermelon it should indeed count towards your daily water intake. Or if you have soup, it also counts towards your water intake.

 

If you want to drown yourself in 5 liters of water a day, go on.