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Why does all this matter? Water has a tendency to move across a membrane from a lower osmolarity to a higher osmolarity. In other words, from the dilute side to the concentrated side. The outcome is that the dilute side loses water and becomes more concentrated, and the concentrated side gains water to become more dilute, so the two sides become more similar.
