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human body is made up of 65% water, and 70% of the brain
is pure water!
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Four hundred gallons of water are recycled through our
kidneys each day.
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People need about 2.5 quarts of water a day (from drinking
or eating) to maintain good health. A person can live
without water for approximately one week, depending
upon the conditions.
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5% of the world owns a shower and which uses 2% of the
world's water source.
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About 2 gallons of water are used brushing your teeth twice
daily.
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Flushing a toilet takes 2.5 gallons per flush.
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Letting the
faucet run uses 3-5 gallons per minute.
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Ignoring a leaky
faucet uses 2700 gallons per year.
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About 25 -50
gallons are needed for a tub bath.
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A 10 minute
shower can use 25 - 50 gallons of water. High flow shower
heads spew water out at 6 - 10 gallons a minute. Low flow
shower heads can cut the rate in half without reducing
pressure.
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Ninety-seven percent of the earth's water is saltwater in
oceans and seas. Of the 3% that is freshwater, only 1%
is available for drinking - the remaining 2% is frozen
in the polar ice caps.
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Water serves as nature's thermometer, helping to regulate
the earth's temperature.
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Once evaporated, a water molecule spends ten days in the
air. Forty trillion gallons of water a day are carried
in the atmosphere across the United States.
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An acre of corn gives off 4,000 gallons of water per day in
evaporation.
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About 2 gallons of water go down the drain when the
kitchen faucet is run until the water's cold.
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It takes about four times the amount of water to produce
food and fiber than all other uses of water combined.
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About 4,000 gallons of water are needed to grow one bushel
of corn, 11,000 gallons to grow one bushel of wheat, and
about 135,000 gallons to grow one ton of alfalfa.
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It takes about 1,000 gallons of water to grow the wheat to
make a two pound loaf of bread, and about 120 gallons to
produce one egg.
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About 1,400 gallons of water are used to produce a meal of a
quarter- pound hamburger, an order of fries and a soft
drink.
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About 48,000 gallons are needed to produce the typical
American Thanksgiving dinner for eight people.
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Forty percent of the atmosphere's moisture falls as
precipitation each day.
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It would take 1.1 trillion gallons of water to cover one
square mile with one foot of water.
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One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds;
one cubic foot contains 7.84 gallons of water.
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While usage varies from community to community and person
to person, on average, Americans use 183 gallons of water
a day for cooking, washing, flushing, and watering
purposes.
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The average family turns on the tap between 70 and 100
times daily.
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About 74% of home water usage is in the bathroom, about
21% is for laundry and cleaning, and about 5% is in the
kitchen.
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A clothes washer uses about 50 gallons of water (the
permanent press cycle uses an additional 15 gallons).
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It takes 12 to 20 gallons of water to run an automatic
dishwasher for one cycle.
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About 1,800
gallons of water are needed to produce the cotton in a pair
of jeans, and 400 gallons to produce the cotton in a shirt.
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It takes 39,000
gallons of water to produce the average domestic auto,
including tires.
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An average of
800,000 water wells are drilled each year in the United
States. That's tapping into our underground water supplies
at approximately 100 times each hour for domestic,
farming, and commercial needs.
Inspiring
Quotes About Water
" Water
is the King of Food" ~ Nigerian proverb
"Water is H2O,
hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third
thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is."
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929
"If there is
magic on this plant, it is contained in water." LORAN EISELY,
The Immense Journey, 1957
"There is no small pleasure in water" Ovid 43 BC
"When the well's
dry, we know the worth of water." Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
"Water is the best of all things." Pindar (522- 438
B.C.),
"Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it
is still there." ISAAC ASIMOV, Isaac Asimov's Book of
Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
"All the water
that will ever be is, right now." National Geographic,
October 1993
"If you gave me several million years, there would be
nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by
water." JAN ERIK VOLD, What All The World Knows, 1970
"Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be
defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary
to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a
gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses."
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY (1900-1944), Wind, Sand, and Stars,
1939
"Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water
remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop
less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet
birthing itself." LINDA HOGAN, Northern Lights, Autumn
1990
"If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the
world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best
thing you could have done for improving human health by
improving environmental quality." WILLIAM C. CLARK,
speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988
"In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has
already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the
soil, and many other organisms, including people..."
ELLIOT A. NORSE, in R.J. Hoage, ed., Animal Extinctions,
1985
"The oceans are the plant's last great living wilderness,
man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last
chance to produce himself a rational species." JOHN L.
CULLNEY, Wilderness Conservation, October 1990
"Only those people that have directly experienced the
wetlands that line the shore...can appreciate their mystic
qualities. The beauty of rising mists at dusk, the ebb
and flow of the tides, the merging of fresh and salt waters,
the turmoil of wind and rain." GOVERNOR'S TASK FORCE
ON MARINE AND COASTAL AFFAIRS, "Delaware: Wetlands," 1972
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