Drinking cold water will burn calories. It is important to know difference between calorie and Calorie. By definition a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at one atmosphere pressure. What we commonly call a Calorie (with a big C) is actually a kilocalorie, or 1000 little calories. Since body temperature is 37.5 degrees Celsius and there are apx 997 grams of water in a liter, we burn about 37,000 calories (37 Calories) for every liter of almost freezing ice water we drink. If we drink the recommended 8 cups/2 liters of water per day, 74 calories isn't much compared to a 2000 Calorie a day diet, but over a year that's around 27,000 Calories burned just by drinking your water ice cold instead of warm!