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How much can boiling a pot of water raise the humidity in a building?

My question is because at my cabin that is heated by a wood stove it gets very dry and we always put a pale of water on the stove to counter act the fire. With out the water every time you walk around and you touch something you get a static shock. With the water on the stove it stops. I'm just wondering how much change a small bucket of water can make in a whole cabin.
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It takes a small volume of water to substantially increase the humidity of a reasonably sized room (ignoring losses of water to condensation etc.).

Example: to increase the humidity of a 20 m^(3) room by 50% at 20^(o)C, you'd only need to boil approximately 170 ml of water.

Of course the volume of water needed increases when the temperature of the room increases. For example, at 30^(o)C you'd need 300 ml of water.