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- The population in the World that does not have access to safe drinking water is 884,000,000.
- Everyone needs water. Humans can live , at most, 7 days without water. They can go 30 days without food. An infant child is made up of 70% water. His father is 60% water and his mother is 55% water. Women tend to have more fatty tissue which has a lower water content.
- Athletes are 65% water because they evaporate so much in exercise. A tennis player can perspire 10.9 cups of water in an hour of play.
- The human brain is 70% water.
- We get most of our water from food. This might surprise you how much water our food contains.
------------------ Cucumbers are 95 % water
------------------ Potatoes 80%
------------------ Bananas 75%
------------------ Peanuts 1%
----------------- Corn flakes 4%
- An oak tree can evaporate 105 gallons of water in a day.
- Many people in developing countries only get to use 7.9 gallons of water per day. A 5 minute shower in the U.S. uses that much water. A toilet that leaks one drop per second will leak 7.2 gallons per day, that is 2,642 gallons per year.
- A camel can drink 53 gallons of water in a single day. A camel does not store water in its hump. A camel stores water in its blood stream.
- I takes 4,094 gallons of water to produce 2.2 pounds of beef.
- It takes 898 gallons of water to produce 2.2 pounds of rice.
- It takes 37 gallons of water to produce one cup of coffee.
- Where does this water come from?
- 71 % of the Earth’s surface is covered in oceans, salt water. That alone represents 96.5% of the world’s water.
-------------------- 1.74% of the water is in snow and glaciers.
-------------------- 1.7% of the water is ground water.
-------------------- 0.022% is in ice and permafrost
-------------------- 0.013% is in fresh water lakes
------------------ 0.001% is moisture in the soil
-------------------- 0.001 % is in the atmosphere. 3,100 cubic miles of water vapor is in the clouds and in humidity. The total volume of the Earth is 260,000,000,000 cubic miles, and it weighs 6*10^24 kilograms.
-------------------- 0.0008% is in swamps
-------------------- 0.0002% is in rivers
-------------------- 0.001% in in plants and animals.
- Ice is one of the very few compounds in which the liquid state is heavier than the solid state. That is why ice floats. Water is its highest density ( heaviest) when it is at 39.2 degrees.
- One water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. One liter of water, which is 4.2 cups, or 1.06 quarts, contains 33*10^24 water molecules, that is:
33,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules.
- By weight the Earth is 45% oxygen and only 1.5% hydrogen ( 27.3% is silicon, 8l4% is aluminum, 6.2% is iron.). 60% of the water delivered to consumers in Saudi Arabia is lost due to leaky pipes. You would think that with all that oil money they could fix their pipes. Singapore looses 6% of its water due to leaks. 70% of my brain is water. That explains a lot. An announcement will be made shortly , stay tuned.
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