Friday, May 19, 2023

4013 - WATER - Why is it so important?

 

-    4013  -  WATER  -  Why is it so important?

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-----------------------------------   4013   -  WATER  -  Why is it so important?

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-    How much of your brain is water?  This review will tell you!

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-      The population of the United States is 310,062,000.   The population in the World that does not have access to safe drinking water is 884,000,000.

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-     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.

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-   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.

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-  The human brain is 70% water.

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-  We get most of our water from food.  This might surprise you how much water our food contains.

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------------------  Cucumbers are 95 % water

------------------  Potatoes  80%

------------------  Bananas  75%

------------------  Peanuts  1%

-----------------  Corn flakes  4%

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-    An oak tree can evaporate 105 gallons of water in a day.

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-    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.

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-      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.

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-    It takes 4,094 gallons of water to produce 2.2 pounds of beef.

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-    It takes 898 gallons of water to produce 2.2 pounds of rice.

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-    It takes 37 gallons of water to produce one cup of coffee.

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-   Where does this water come from?

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-    71 % of the Earth’s surface is covered in oceans, salt water.  That alone represents 96.5% of the world’s water.

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--------------------  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

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--------------------  0.013% is in fresh water lakes

--------------------  0.001% is moisture in the soil

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-------------------- 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.

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--------------------  0.0008% is in swamps

--------------------  0.0002% is in rivers

--------------------  0.001% in in plants and animals.

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-    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.

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-    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.

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-    By weight the Earth is 45% oxygen and only 1.5% hydrogen ( 27.3% is silicon, 8l4% is aluminum, 6.2% is iron.).

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-     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.

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-    70% of my brain is water.  That explains a lot.

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May 17, 2023            WATER  -  Why is it so important?           1418           4009                                                                                                                         

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