Water Facts

· The only water we will ever have is what we have right now.

· Showers use 9 gallons of water per minute.

· Once groundwater is polluted it may remain that way for several thousand years.

· It can take 120 gallons of water to produce one egg.

· A hot water faucet that leaks 60 drops per minute can waste 192 gallons of water and 48 kilowatt hours of electricity per month.

· Human blood is 83% water. Human Bones are 25% water.

· Running the tap waiting for water to get hot or cold can waste 5 gallons per minute.

· 97% of the water on the earth is saltwater; only 3 % is fresh water. Most of the freshwater stored on the earth is frozen in glaciers.

· Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.

· The earth’s surface is approximately 80% water. That’s about 362,000,000,000,000 (362 trillion) gallons of water

· Watermelon is 93% water.

· “Water” was the first word that Helen Keller learned. “Water” was the last word spoken by President Ulysses S. Grant.

· In some deserts, rain is so uncommon that the natives do not have a word for it.

· Over 42,000 gallons of water are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight in the United States. This is enough water to fill a 30 by 50 foot swimming pool!

· The people in the United States use as much as 700,000,000,000 (700 billion) gallons of water each day.

· Heating water is the second largest energy user in the home.

· The koala bear and the desert rat do not drink water.

· In one glass of water, there are about 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (8 septillion) water molecules.

· In a one hundred year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.

Water costs money-don't waste it!!!!!