Which is higher in water content, in general: (human) muscle or fat?

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Clarification of Question by nayna-ga on 06 Aug 2003 01:26 PDT

Please note that I am talking about the scientific amount of water in
isolated fat and muscle samples.  I'll be watching to see if any other
clarification needs to happen.

Hello nayna,

Muscle tissue has a higher water content than fat tissue.  I have
found two sources which both say that human fat tissue contains about
10% water.  One source then says that muscle tissue contains 70-75%
water, while the other cites muscle and other tissues as containing
70% water.

Sources
"Sports Nutrition" on the web site of Montana State University
http://btc.montana.edu/Olympics/nutrition/eat02.html
"Body Fluids And Regulation"  Chapter 24 of Textbook in Medical
Physiology And Pathophysiology : Essentials and clinical problems, by
Poul-Erik Paulev, published by Copenhagen Medical Publishers  1999 -
2000
http://www.mfi.ku.dk/ppaulev/chapter24/kap%2024.htm 

Search strategy
I used http://www.scirus.com because this search engine only indexes
pages with proper scientific content, and thus excludes the irrelevant
material that would come up otherwise with these search terms (fad
diets, dietary supplements, beauty products etc).
The search terms used: "water content" "muscle tissue" "fat tissue"