By increasing water intake, your causing you captive to increase the amount of minerals it must process and increasing the uric acid levels in the blood stream, which puts pressure on the kidneys, then other organs. The actual question is, how long and to what degree can a snake tolerate this.
Again, their design to to seek higher humidity when dry and lower humidity when wet and a neutral when in balance. Long term shelters in nature are neutrals in the 50 to 60% percent range, but with little to no air movement. Your cages are indeed long term, which means, all you need is 50 to 60% and little air loss. ITs actually very simple.

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