Health experts question water rule

Everyone from women's magazines to Colon Health Network and the Georgia Rural Water Journal extols the virtues of drinking at least eight, eight-ounce glasses of water a day. Bottled-water makers heavily market their products based on this theory -- so commonly held that nutritionists refer to it simply as "eight-by-eight." The industry's trade group even has a "hydration calculator" on its Web site (www.bottledwater.org/public/hydratio.htm) for people to determine whether they need even more than that.

But a growing number of health experts say the advice may not hold water.

The article spins it toward anti-business, that the entire "drink water" is a campaign put on by bottled-water makers. Of course, the deeper question is who are the researchers who created the entire "eight-by-eight" routine, and are they legit or who bought them? Excuse me, while I have another bottle of water....