Water….did you know

·        Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

·        At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.

·        Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.

·        Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.

·        Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.

·        Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.

·        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.

·        The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.

·        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.

·        The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.

·        The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.

·        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.

·        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.