In the title hydrate, C(12)H(13)NO(4)·H(2)O, the piperidine ring that is fused to the benzene ring is in a sofa conformation with the chiral C atom lying 0.4084 (18) Å out of the plane of the nine fused-ring atoms. In the crystal, O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the organic mol-ecules and water mol-ecules into chains running along the b-axis direction. The chains are further connected into layers parallel to the bc plane by π-π inter-actions between inversion-related benzene rings [centroid-centroid distance = 3.8846 (9) Å].