Enlightening Facts I'll Bet You 

Didn't Know About Water...

• The human body is made up of 65% water, and 70% of the brain is pure water!

• Four hundred gallons of water are recycled through our kidneys each day.

• People need about 2.5 quarts of water a day (from drinking or eating) to maintain good health.

• A person can live without water for approximately one week,  depending upon the conditions.

• 5% of the world owns a shower and which uses 2% of the world's water source.

• 40% of world lacks clean water

• About 2 gallons of water are used brushing your teeth twice daily.

• Flushing a toilet takes 2.5 gallons per flush!!

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• Letting the faucet run uses 3-5 gallons per minute.

• Ignoring a leaky faucet uses 2700 gallons per year.

• About 25 -50 gallons are needed for a tub bath.

• A 10 minute shower can use 25 - 50 gallons of water. High flow shower heads spew water out at 6 - 10 gallons a minute. Low flow shower heads can cut the rate in  half without reducing pressure.

• Ninety-seven percent of the earth's water is saltwater in oceans and seas.  Of the 3% that is freshwater, only 1% is available for drinking - the remaining 2% is  frozen in the polar ice caps.

• Water serves as nature's thermometer, helping to regulate the earth's temperature.

• Once evaporated, a water molecule spends ten days in the air.  Forty trillion gallons of water a day are carried in the atmosphere across the United States.

• An acre of corn gives off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.

• About 2 gallons of water go down the drain when the kitchen faucet is run until the water's cold.

• It takes about four times the amount of water to produce food and fiber than all other uses of water combined.

• About 4,000 gallons of water are needed to grow one bushel of corn, 11,000 gallons to grow one bushel of wheat, and about 135,000 gallons to grow one ton of  alfalfa.

• It takes about 1,000 gallons of water to grow the wheat to make a two pound loaf of bread, and about 120 gallons to produce one egg.

• About 1,400 gallons of water are used to produce a meal of a quarter- pound hamburger, an order of fries and a soft drink.

• About 48,000 gallons are needed to produce the typical American Thanksgiving dinner for eight people.

• Forty percent of the atmosphere's moisture falls as precipitation each day.

• It would take 1.1 trillion gallons of water to cover one square mile with one foot of water.

• One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds; one cubic foot contains 7.84 gallons of water.

• While usage varies from community to community and person to person, on average, Americans use 183 gallons of water a day for cooking, washing, flushing,  and watering purposes.

• The average family turns on the tap between 70 and 100 times  daily.

• About 74% of home water usage is in the bathroom, about 21% is for laundry and cleaning, and about 5% is in the kitchen.

• A clothes washer uses about 50 gallons of water (the permanent press cycle uses an additional 15 gallons).

• It takes 12 to 20 gallons of water to run an automatic dishwasher for one cycle. 

• About 1,800 gallons of water are needed to produce the cotton in a pair of jeans, and 400 gallons to produce the cotton in a shirt.

• It takes 39,000 gallons of water to produce the average domestic auto, including tires.

• Producing an average-size Sunday newspaper requires about 150 gallons of water.

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• Water makes up 80% of an earthworm, 70% of a chicken, and 70% of an elephant.

• Water makes up 90% of a tomato, 80% of pineapples and corn, and 70% of a tree.

• About 60,000 public water systems across the United States process 34 billion gallons of water per day for home and commercial use. Eighty-five percent of the  population is served by these facilities. The remaining 15% rely on 13 million private.

• It can take up to 45 minutes for a water supplier to produce one glass of drinking water.

• You can refill an 8 oz. glass of water approximately 15,000 times for the same cost as a six pack of soda pop.  And, water has no sugar or caffeine.

• An average of 800,000 water wells are drilled each year in the United States. That's tapping into our underground water supplies at approximately 100 times  each hour for domestic, farming, and commercial needs.

• The United States and Canada have about one million miles of pipelines and aqueducts - enough to circle the planet 40 times.

• The most common substance found on earth is water. Water is the only substance found naturally in three forms: solid, liquid, and gas.

• The amount of water is constant and recycled throughout time; actually, it is possible to drink water that was part of the dinosaur era.

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Inspiring Quotes About Water
 

" Water is the King of Food"  ~ Nigerian proverb

"Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is."  D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929

"If there is magic on this plant, it is contained in water." LORAN EISELY, The Immense Journey, 1957

"There is no small pleasure in water" Ovid 43 BC

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

"Water is the best of all things."  Pindar (522- 438 B.C.),

"Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there."  ISAAC ASIMOV, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

"All the water that will ever be is, right now."  National Geographic, October 1993

"If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water." JAN ERIK VOLD, What All The World Knows, 1970

"Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses."  ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY (1900-1944), Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

"Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself."  LINDA HOGAN, Northern Lights, Autumn 1990

"If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality."  WILLIAM C. CLARK, speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988

"In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including  people..."  ELLIOT A. NORSE, in R.J. Hoage, ed., Animal Extinctions, 1985

"The oceans are the plant's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species." JOHN L. CULLNEY, Wilderness Conservation, October 1990

"Only those people that have directly experienced the wetlands that line the shore...can appreciate their mystic qualities. The beauty of rising mists at dusk,  the ebb and flow of the tides, the merging of fresh and salt waters, the turmoil of wind and  rain." GOVERNOR'S TASK FORCE ON MARINE AND COASTAL AFFAIRS, "Delaware: Wetlands," 1972