Facts about water

Facts about water


  1. About 97 percent of all water on Earth is salt water. Only 3 percent is fresh water and most of that (2%) is frozen in polar caps and the remaining 1 percent is found in Lakes, rivers, streams, etc…
  2. Water is the only substance that is found naturally on Earth in 3 forms: liquid, gas and solid.
  3. Water moves around the Earth in a cycle.
  4. Water cycle has 5 parts: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, and surface run-off. Each day the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water.
  5. Water regulates Earths water temperature.
  6. Frozen water is 9% lighter than liquid water. Which is why ice floats.
  7. About 66% of a human body consists of water.
  8. A single tree will move about 70 gallons of water from the soil to the atmosphere.
  9. Humans use more water each year. Americans use about 88 gallons of water per person each day. Which is 50 gallons more than the average European.
  10. It takes 50 gallons of water to produce 1 egg.
  11. Even 1 drip in a faucet can add up to hundreds of gallons of water wasted each year.
  12. Bottled water can be up to 1,000 times more expensive than water from the tap and most of it is tap water anyways.
Remember some of these facts, as hopefully they will change how you live your life when it comes to wasting water and how u can waste less.

Source: www.aquariawater.com/education/water-facts



Julien Dupont

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