Predicting Drinking Water Needs – Keeping Troops Healthy, Cutting Cost Of Operations; May Also Benefit Civilians

Posted on July 17, 2009
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When soldiers leave base for a 3-day mission, how much water should they bring? Military planners and others have long wrestled with that question, but new research from the Journal of Applied Physiology may now provide them an accurate answer. The study substantially improves a water needs equation that the U.S. Army developed in 1982. That equation, known as the Shairo equation, overestimates water needs.

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