Water, water everywhere!

Hello again!
Today I was staring at my full water bottle and contemplating the urinary system, not something you would find me normally doing on a Sunday night. Fear not though, the reason I have urine on the brain is that we just finished up the Urinary System unit in our A&P class and I can tell you that I know more about the micturition reflex and nephron loop than I ever cared to at the start of the semester (those are real things which you can read up on here):
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter27/animation__micturition_reflex.html
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephron

 Anywhoo, thinking about urination led me to thinking about how much water we should be intaking every day, and the fact that I stated in the top of this here blog that I will be trying to drink 9 cups of water per day. Since I haven't been as faithful to that goal as I would like, I have decided that this week is "water week" for Kate Jones. I am going to be drinking 3 of these (28oz, 3.5 c):

per day. Wish me luck! I found an article from the Mayo Clinic Website recommending that females drink about 9 cups of water per day, which sounds like a good idea to me because of the reasons they give, and because the more water we drink, the less work our kidneys have to do to retain water, and the better we will function!
Yay! Happy Drinking! ; )

 Article Link:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283