Experimental data for the solvation of water in nonpolar organic solvents indicate that the process is spontaneous under the Ben-Naim standard conditions. due to a large and negative enthalpy change. The process is analyzed by considering that the solvation Gibbs energy change is given by the sum of two opposing terms: the work to create a suitable cavity and the work to turn oil the attractive solute-solvent interactions. Basic calculations point out unequivocally that, beyond the van der Waals contributions. additional favorable interactions occur between water and the surrounding solvent molecules. These additional favorable interactions should be nontraditional hydrogen bonds such as those between the delocalized,pi-electron cloud of the aromatic ring and the hydrogen atoms of water, and those between the CH groups of both aliphatics and aromatics and the oxygen atom of water.