National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Dietary Reference Intakes for Water and Electrolytes
The reference work establishing adequate intake values for total water, sodium, potassium and chloride, and the basis for evidence-based statements about human water requirements.
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- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
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- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Geographic coverage
- United States — widely cited internationally
- Temporal coverage
- 2005 onwards
- Update frequency
- static
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Notes
The adequate intake values refer to total water from all sources — drinks and food combined — not to drinking water alone. Misreading this is the origin of several persistent hydration myths (spec §30).