question: I had a terrible bout with kidney stones this past summer. I had one on the right side that passed & a very large one on the left that I had to have surgery to have a stent put in & then SWL (shock wave lithotripsy). It broke the stone up & some of it passed, but then I had to have a second surgery with another stent & then laser to continue breaking up the rest of the stone. My last x-ray on Oct. 22, 2014 showed that I am now stone free. I understand from my urologist that I need to drink maybe as much as 3 qts of water a day, which I get about 78 oz now. I am trying to work up to 96 ozs. My question is