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Question

In term of the way our bodies function, why is it important that water is incompressible?

Answer 1

Water is the main solvent in our body to dissolve salts. If water is compressible, the concentration of the solution would be too high for any human body to survive. Similarly, our cells would shrink so much because of the compression and we would be "hollow" everywhere. How are we to survive in these conditions?

Answer 2

It would make digestion impossible as the gut would not be able to move food along. It would make the function of the heart impossible as it would only be squeezing the water, not pumping it.