- Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
- Approximately 98% of all fresh water is in ice caps and glaciers.
- There is the same amount of water on Earth today as when the Earth was formed.
- Water cannot be reproduced, what is on Earth is all there is.
- A tablespoon of motor oil can contaminate 500 gallons of water for 20 years.
- The water from your faucet contains molecules that dinosaurs drank millions of years ago.
- A person can live a month without food but only 5 days without water.
- Water is odorless, tasteless and a transparent liquid at room temperature.
- The chemical compound for water is 2 atoms of hydrogen\1 atom of oxygen = h2o.
- One gallon of water is equal to 3.785 liters of water.
- One cubic foot of water is equal to 7.48 gallons of water.
- Water is colorless in small amounts, but exhibits a bluish tint in large quantities.
- One cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram.
- Water in the Earth is called ground water & its upper level is called the water table.
- Unlike other liquids, water expands when frozen.
- Water freezes into a solid state at 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Water is less dense as ice than as a liquid at 4 degrees Celsius.
- Water heated to 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit will vaporize into steam.
- Water completely pure is a poor conductor of electricity.
- Water is one of the best know solvents.
- Salt Water contains a large amount of sodium chloride (common salt), hence the name.
- An average American family use approximately 300 gallons of water per day.
- It takes about 4 gallons of water to process a pound of hamburger.
- It takes over 500 gallons of water to make one automotive tire.
- Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year.
- In the United States, 24% of the bottled water sold is really purified municipal water.
- Most Americans can taste no difference between bottled water and faucet water.
- The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.
- It takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic water bottles that we use each year.
- Water is the only true resource that keeps Earth alive.
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