Shocking Facts about Water
Water
Water is essential to everyday life for drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning, and landscaping.
In a day, Europeans use about 50 gallons of water. Americans use 100 gallons. 400 billion gallons are used in u.s. Those living in sub-saharan Africa use 2-5 gallons. 36 million gallons are leaked in the new York city water supply system. 200 gallons can be wasted by a running toilet. 1 drip per second can become 30000 gallons per year. A bath uses up to 70 gallons. A shower uses 10-25 gallons
More than 25% of bottled water comes from the same place as tap water; a municipal water supply. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day from water bottles will cost up to $1400 over a year. Drinking from the tap will cost about 50 cents per year.
55-78% of a humans body weight is made up of water. 97% of water is salt water, 3% is fresh .3% of which is found at the earth's surface. 68.7% of earths fresh water is unusable because it is in glaciers. More water is found in the atmosphere than all of the rivers of the planet combined. Water is the only compound on earth that naturally exists in solid, liquid, and gas. Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid.
It takes, 10 gallons to make a single slice of bread, 713 gallons to produce a cotton t-shirt, 1000 gallons to make 1 gallon of milk, 634 gallons to produce one burger.
