Water Facts

Did you know?

• Water is the most common substance found on Earth.
• The only water we will ever have is what we have now.
• In a 100 year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
• Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.
• Water is the only substance on Earth naturally found in the three true element forms: solid, liquid, and gas.
• 80% of the Earth's surface is water.
• 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans and seas.
• 66 % of your body is water.
• Bones are 25% water.
• Human blood is 83% water.
• A person can survive without food for more than 30 days, but less than a week without water.
• A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
• For every 2.31 feet that water is raised above the Earth's surface, it can create one pound per square inch of pressure.
• For every 2.31 feet you are submerged below a body of waters surface there is a 1 pound per square inch of pressure equally placed on your body.
• The first water pipes made in the were fire-charred, bored out logs.
• There are over 1 million miles of water pipelines and aquaducts in the United States and Canada-enough to circle the globe 40 times.
• There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the U.S.
• Community water systems process over 35 billion gallons of water daily.
• The average household uses 107,000 gallons of water per year.
• It takes 1.851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.
• It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process one barrel of beer.
• It takes 120 gallons of water to produce an egg.
• Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30'x50' swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight.
• A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
• An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.