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Brainiac Stuff

That's Fun To Know

Sources of information for these facts include, but are not limited to, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the American Water Works Association.

WACKY WATER


  • In a 100-year period, an average water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about two weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.

  • One gallon of water weighs about 8.5 pounds.

  • Water is the only substance on Earth found naturally in three different forms – solid, liquid and gas.

HUMANS AND H2O

  • Humans can survive only 5 to 7 days without water.

  • The human body is made of 70% water and your brain is 95% water.

  • The average person loses 16 ounces of water from their body a day just by breathing.

 

EARTH AND WATER DO MIX

  • The Earth has the same amount of water today as it did 3 billion years ago.

  • 1% of the Earth’s water is available for drinking, 97% is salt water and the remaining 2% is frozen in glaciers.

  • 75% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water.

  • About 35% of the Earth’s freshwater supply is found underground.

IMAGINE THAT!

  • At five to ten gallons a minute, a 10-minute shower can use as much as 100 gallons of water.

  • If everyone in the United States flushed the toilet just one less time per day, we could save a lake full of water about one mile long, one mile wide and four feet deep.

  • Toilets use the most water in our homes.

  • If everyone in the United States used just one less gallon of water per shower every day, we could save some 85 billion gallons of water per year.

  • A dairy cow must drink four gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk.

  • A tomato is 95% water.

  • One gallon of gasoline can contaminate 750,000 gallons of water.

  • Americans drink more than 1 billion glasses of tap water per day.

  • 75% of a living tree is made of water.

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