About two thirds of your body is water. You use some up every time you run around, and even when you breathe on a cold window and fog it up! That's why Canada's Food Guide says to make water your drink of choice. It has no sugar, it comes right out of the tap, and it's exactly what your body wants when you feel thirsty.
Feeling thirsty is your body asking for a refill. Kids who are busy playing lose water faster than they notice, so it helps to keep a water bottle close by and top it up often.
Dogs don't scoop water with the top of their tongue. They curl the tip backwards into a little spoon and flick the water up into their mouth, which is why the floor around the bowl gets so splashy! Horses are tidier sippers, and a horse can drink more than 25 litres of water on a warm day.
A thirsty camel can gulp down more than 100 litres of water in about ten minutes, then go for days without another drink. Elephants use their trunks like a giant straw, sucking water up and squirting it into their mouths.
Raindrops aren't really shaped like teardrops. Small ones are round like tiny marbles, and big ones get squashed flat on the bottom like a hamburger bun as they fall. Every one of them is on its way to refill the rivers and lakes that animals and people drink from.
