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Peri-ictal water drinking (PIWD) is the act of drinking water during an electroclinical seizure or up to two-minutes postictally [1,2]. PIWD is uncommon, although it has been reported in both children and adults with epilepsy, particularly with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The current literature on PIWD consists solely of cases recorded with scalp-EEG [2]. PIWD has been associated with a localizing and lateralizing value, over the non-dominant temporal lobe. In this case, an evaluation using stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) recordings was utilized to gain a deeper understanding of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) and pattern of seizure spread.