"Drinking water excessively can lead to kidney disorder," Dr Bright Okoh has cautioned. "Drinking three of the big bottles of water is not exactly excessive.

There are people who want to drink a jerrycan's worth of water with a hosepipe," Dr Okoh revealed on No.1 105.3 FM.

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Okoh who has more than two decades experience as a herbal medicine prac­titioner explained that drinking more water than is healthy puts "pressure on the kidneys. "The kidney filters the water you drink, separating what your body needs from what will be flushed out in the form of urine.