The importance of water Water is the essence of life, without it there is no life. No seed could germinate, no plant could grow and no animal could live.
Water supports all of the nutritive processes.
Water holds nutrients in solution and transports all food necessary for life to the various parts of the body. Water extracts and distributes the vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, fats and other nutrients. Water holds wastes and toxins that it picks up from the cells and carries them to the organs of elimination. Carbon dioxide, nitrogen from protein metabolism, urea, and ammonia are some of the toxic substances that must be collected, diluted and expelled from the body. Water enables you to swallow, talk, digest food and create saliva.