Here are some amazing facts about water that you may not know.
- 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.1
- 30% of fresh water is in the ground.1
- 1.7% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.1
- Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.1
- Nearly one-half of the water used by Americans is used for thermoelectric power generation.1
- In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside).1
- Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.1
- The freezing point of water lowers as the amount of salt dissolved in at increases. With average levels of salt, seawater freezes at -2 °C (28.4 °F).2
- About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four.3
- To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.3
- 780 million people lack access to an improved water source.4
- In just one day, 200 million work hours are consumed by women collecting water for their families.4
- 1/3 what the world spends on bottled water in one year could pay for projects providing water to everyone in need.4
- Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.4
- Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon.5
- It takes 120 gallons of water for one egg.5
- A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.5
- 70% of the human brain is water.5
- 80% of all illness in the developing world is water related.6
- Up to 50% of water is lost through leaks in cities in the developing world.6
- In Nairobi urban poor pay 10 times more for water than in New York.6
- In some countries, less than half the population has access to clean water.7
- $260 billion is the estimated annual economic loss from poor water and sanitation in developing countries.7
- 40 billion hours are spent collecting water in Africa alone.7
- The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.8
- A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.8
- Water expands by 9% when it freezes.8
- There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.9
- The length of the side of a cube which could hold the Earth’s estimated total volume of water in km = 1150.10
- Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.11
- Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day.11
- The United States draws more than 40 billion gallons (151 million liters) of water from the Great Lakes every day—half of which is used for electrical power production.12
- 85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.13
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