Wow. Water intoxication. I wouldn't have imagined such a thing was possible.
it is, by drinking way to much. When I was pg with my last child I developed a condition caused by being pg where I hypersalivate the entire 9 months of my pg(pregnancy). The only way I could get relief was to suck on ice all day. My husband had to go buy bags of ice for me from the store of which I would go through ever couple of days.
I told my doctor and she told me to be careful not getting to much water, so I limited the amount I drank when I wasn't sucking on ice.
I remember it from a couple of years ago. It happened somewhere in Northern California when a fraternity was hazing a student and he died from water consumption. The were forcing him to drink it non-stop.
The reason: Electrolyte Imbalance.
I remember many, many years ago, back when I was a teen discovering Paul Harvey's report, I heard him talk about a woman who drank water for hours at a time to cleanse cancer from her body, or something. There was in recent years a hazing death at Chico State University (which was once named America's best party school by Playboy magazine) from water intoxication.