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WATER - Why is it so important?
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- 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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