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[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral ph of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.[/color][/size][/font]
[*][font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][size="-1"][color="#333333"]The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.[/color][/size][/font]
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• 75 % of our earth is covered with water yet 1.4 billion people live without clean drinking water
• Two-fifths of the world’s population lack access to proper sanitation
• More than one-third of Africa‚ population lacks access to safe drinking water
• 97 % of earth’s water is in the oceans. Only 3 % of the earth’s water can be used as drinking water. 75 % of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps. • More than 130 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean lack access to safe drinking water
• Between 15 and 20 percent of the water used worldwide is not for domestic consumption, but rather for export
• Three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, yet 98 percent is salt water and not fit for consumption.
• Less than one percent of all the water on Earth is freshwater available for human consumption

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Although a person can live without food for more than a month, a person can only live without water for approximately one week
• The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water.
• The average person needs 2 quarts of water a day.
• Water comprises more than 80% of your blood, and the brain and muscles are three-fourths water
• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated
• If you are thirsty your body is already dehydrated
• Even mild dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%
• Losing just 1-2% of your body weight in water causes a decrease in your performance of between 10-20%
• 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 a printed page
• Diarrhea killed more children in the last decade, nearly 2 million a year in developing countries, than all armed conflicts since the Second World War.
• Dirty water kills more children than war, malaria, HIV/AIDS and traffic accidents combined
• 75 percent of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from chronic dehydration because of poor water quality
• Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue
• On average it takes about 2 cups of water to make up for the dehydration caused by a single alcoholic drink or a cup of coffee
• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger
• 80 percent of all sickness and disease worldwide is related to contaminated water, according to the World Health Organization
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• A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
• Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers
• 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
• At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
• Water fights bad breath
• One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs
• Approximately 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
• The main cause of kidney stones is dehydration
• Daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form
• The best treatment for dry eyes is drinking enough water throughout the day
• Water helps your skin look better
• 8-10 glasses a day is recommended for a sedentary person
• A simple way to estimate water recommendation for a person who works out would be to multiply body weight times 0.55. Example: 180 pound person — 180 times 0.55 = 99 ounces of water per day.
• Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication.
• Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
• Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
• Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
• Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water
• Half of the world‚ hospital beds are occupied by people with an easily preventable waterborne disease

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average person in the United States uses 80 to 100 gallons of water each day. During medieval times a person used only 5 gallons per day.
• About 1.2 billion gallons of potable water are used in New Jersey each day.
• The average American household consumes about 127,400 gallons of water during a year. Homeowners in Washington, DC, pay about $350 for that amount of water. Buying that same amount of water from a vendor in Guatemala City would cost more than $1,700.
• 3.9 trillion gallons of water are consumed in the United States per month.
• Average American uses 176 gallons of water per day compared to 5 gallons of water the average African family uses each day
• The average single-family home uses 80 gallons of water per person each day in the winter and 120 gallons in the summer.
• Showering, bathing and using the toilet account for about two-thirds of the average family’s water usage.
• 6.8 Billion — Gallons of water Americans flush down their toilets every day.
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• About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four.
• The average American consumes 1,500 pounds of food each year; 1,000 gallons of water are required to grow and process each pound of that food—1.5 million gallons of water is invested in the food eaten by just one person! This 200,000-cubic-feet-plus of water-per-person would be enough to cover a football field four feet deep.
• About 39,090 gallons of water is needed to make an automobile, tires included.
• It takes about 6 gallons of water to grow a single serving of lettuce. More than 2,600 gallons is required to produce a single serving of steak.
• It takes almost 49 gallons of water to produce just one eight-ounce glass of milk. That includes water consumed by the cow and to grow the food she eats, plus water used to process the milk.
• At least 9.6 million households and $390 billion in property lie in flood prone areas in the United States. The rate of urban growth in floodplains is approximately twice that of the rest of the country.
• Water used around the house for such things as drinking, cooking, bathing, toilet flushing, washing clothes and dishes, watering lawns and gardens, maintaining swimming pools, and washing cars accounts for only 1% of all the water used in the U.S. each year.

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• It takes about 1 gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
• It takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.
• The first United States water plant with filters was built in 1872 in Poughkeepsie, New York.
• In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois were the first water supplies to be chlorinated in the United States.
• Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
• In the 1950’s scientists began to suspect that water might carry diseases. Although earlier treatment of water could make the water safer, it was mainly done to improve the taste, smell or looks of the water. One gallon of water is equal to 3.785 liters of water. The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.
• The United States consumes water at twice the rate of other industrialized nations.
• One cubic foot of water is equal to 7.48 gallons of water.
• Water boils at 212o Fahrenheit or 100o Celsius.
• Ancient Egyptians treated water by siphoning water out of the top of huge jars after allowing the muddy water from the Nile River to settle



• At any one time, it is estimated that half the world’s hospital beds are occupied with patients suffering from waterborne diseases. Average amount of pesticides used per acre, per year, on golf courses: 18 pounds
• Average amount of pesticides used, per acre, per year, in agriculture: 2.7 pounds
• Amount of water used by 60,000 villagers in Thailand, on average, per day: 6,500 cubic meters
• Amount of water used by one golf course in Thailand, on average, per day: 6,500 cubic meters
• Most of the earth’s surface water is permanently frozen or salty.
• Approximately 70% of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica, locked in 90% of the world’s ice. (Source: Gulf of Maine Research Institute)
• The earth’s total allotment of water has a volume of about 344 million cubic miles. Of this:
o 315 million cubic miles (93%) is sea water!
o 9 million cubic miles (2.5%) is in aquifers deep below the earth’s surface.
o 7 million cubic miles (2%) is frozen in polar ice caps.
o 53,000 cubic miles of water pass through the planet’s lakes and streams.
o 4,000 cubic miles of water is atmospheric moisture.
o 3,400 cubic miles of water are locked within the bodies of living things. •
o Water freezes at 32o Fahrenheit or 0o Celsius.
• During the 20th century, water use increased at double the rate of population growth; while the global population tripled, water use per capita increased by six times.

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awesome facts......keep it up.....

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