Water Information - Fun Facts! Water Trivia!

Listed below are some amazing facts and figures about water.

• Water Week is a national clebration of the good work performed by America's water professionals. Many people take safe, clean water for granted, but thousands of trained men and women are on the job around the clock to safeguard our water resources.

• The only water we will ever have is what we have right now.

• Showers use 9 gallons of water per minute. A bath requires 30-50 gallons.

• Once groundwater is polluted it may remain that way for several thousand years.

• It can take 120 gallons of water to produce one egg.

• A hot water faucet that leaks 60 drops per minute can waste 192 gallons of water and 48 kilowatt hours of electricity per month.

• Human blood is 83% water. Human bones are 25% water.

• Running the tap waiting for water to get hot or cold can waste 5 gallons per minute.

• 97% of the water on the earth is saltwater; only 3% is freshwater. Most of the freshwater stored on the earth is frozen glaciers.

• Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.

• The earth's surface is approximately 80% water. That's about 362,000,000,000,000 (362 trillion) gallons of water.

• Watermellon is 93% water.

• "Water" was the first word that Helen Keller learned. "Water" was the last word spoken by President Ulysses S. Grant.

• In some deserts, rain is so uncommon that the natives do not have a word for it.

• Over 42,000 gallons of water are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight in the United States. This is enough water to fill a 30 by 50 foot swimming pool!

• The people in the United States use as much as 700,000,000,000 (700 billion) gallons of water each day.

• Heating water is the second largest energy user in the home.

• The koala bear and the desert rat do not drink water.

• In one glass of water, there are about 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (8 septillion) water molecules.

• In a one hundred 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.

• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half world population)

• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.

• Even mild dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%. One glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.

• Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

• Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

• Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%,plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.