Study reveals a wide variation in the water needs of people around the globe

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More than 90 researchers were involved in the study, which was led by a group that includes Yosuke Yamada, a former UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher in Schoeller's lab and now section head of the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition in Japan, and John Speakman, zoology professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. They collected and analyzed data from participants, comparing environmental factors -- such as temperature, humidity and altitude of the participants' hometowns -- to measured water turnover, energy expenditure, body mass, sex, age and athlete status.