Water's Interesting Facts
• Lower than .01 of water on the Earth is "okay" to drink. The rest is either frozen, or salty.
• On average, a person consumes 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
• Every person in America uses about 160 gallons of water a day.
• 2/3 of the water your family uses is in the bathroom.
• Our water is recycled over and over, since we have the same type of water as the dinosaurs did.
• About 70% evaporate into the air.
• 3.12% is used for industry.
• 2.46% is used for irrigation.
• 0.42% is used in cities.
• And the last 24% are unused precipitation that returned to the sea.
• A tree is 3/4 water.
• An elephant contains about 70% of water.
• A chicken contains about 75% water.
• A potato contains about 80% water.
• A tomato contains about 95%.
• A pineapple contains about 80% water. One gallon of gasoline spilled on the ground can pollute 750,000 gallons of water.
• 75% of Earth is covered with water.
• 97% of the Earth's water is in the Oceans, and 75% of that is frozen in polar ice caps.
• 1.2 billion people, over 1/6 of the Earth's population, does not have access to clean water.
• It takes 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet.
• It takes 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower.
• An automatic dishwasher uses approximately 9 to 12 gallons of water while hand washing dishes can use up to 20 gallons.
• If every household in America had a faucet that dripped once each second, 928 million gallons of water a day would leak away.
• Water pollution is mostly caused by oil spills, fertilizer and agricultural run-off, sewage, storm water, and industrial wastes.
• Our bones are 25% water.
• Water controls the Earth's temperature.
• The atmosphere holds .001% of water.
Now that's what I call high quality H2O.
