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to maintain a steady body temperature

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Q: Why does the body excrete water?
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What body organs excrete carbon dioxide and water?

lungs.


Why is water important to the kidneys?

Kidneys must excrete water in the urine so as to maintain homoeostasis in the body. The kidneys will excrete concentrated urine.


What does the human body excrete?

for a more medical answer, your body excretes waste in many ways. * when you exhale, you excrete carbon dioxide * you excrete feces during a bowel movement * you excrete urea in your urine when you urinate * you excrete waste when you sweat I may be missing a few, however, I feel that this is more accurate than poo and wizz


What excrete excess salt and water?

The salt glands excrete excess salts and water from the body. The urinary tract is also used for this purpose through the kidney.


How do kidneys water balance?

The kidneys can either re-absorb water back into the body or excrete more water outside of the body. This is regulated by hormones such as ADH and aldosterone.


Why animals have to excrete?

animals have to excrete to remove wastes from their body


Can a body excrete more water in a day than it consumes?

Yes, the body can excrete more water than it consumes in a day through processes such as urination, sweating, and breathing. This can happen, for example, during periods of increased physical activity or in hot weather.


Why does the body need to excrete as much water as it brings in?

Water is excreted by three routes from your body. Kidneys, skin, feces and lungs. Kidneys just can not excrete the solutes in powder form. They have to be dissolved in water. Skin can excrete lot of water in hot sunny day. May be up to one liter per hour. This water is used to keep your body cool. Feces carry some more or less water with them. That is the physical property of feces. Water loss from lungs also in inevitable. The exhaled air get saturated with water vapor due very large surface area of gaseous exchange.


Does sweat excrete through the pours of the skin?

yes ...swet is excretion of water and salts from our body


How is water excreted in the body?

When you sweat, usually, is how you excrete excess water. Of course, though, when your bladders get full, urinate helps too!


What do the lungs excrete or remove from the body?

Lungs excrete carbon dioxide and kidneys excrete urea and other substance


What are openings in the skin for the excretion of water salts and urea?

When you cry, don't you excrete salt water? when you run and sweat, you excrete salt water. When you drink water and later pee, you excrete urea.