1. Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
2. There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank.
3. 75% of the human brain is water and 75% of a living tree is water.
4. The average human body is made of 50 to 65 percent water.
5. Newborn babies have even more, ringing in at 78 percent water.
6. Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet's surface.
7. There is more water in the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined.
8. Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day; nearly half of that is used for thermoelectric power generation.
9. In a year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons.
10. At one drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons in a year.
11. A bath uses up to 70 gallons of water; a five-minute shower uses 10 to 25 gallons.
12. The first water pipes in the U.S. were made from hollowed logs.
13. 748 million people in the world do not have access to an improved source of drinking water
14. And 2.5 billion people do not have use of an improved sanitation facility.
15. 1.8 billion people worldwide drink water that is contaminated with feces.
16. On average, a European resident uses about 50 gallons of water per day.
17. On average, an American resident uses about 100 gallons of water per day.
18. On average, a resident of sub-Saharan Africa uses 2 to 5 gallons of water per day.
19. About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day's food for a family of four.
20. To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.
21. Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.
22. A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.
23. 40 billion hours are spent collecting water in Africa alone.
24. In some countries, less than half the population has access to clean water.
25. A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
26. Water expands by 9% when it freezes.
27. Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.
28. 85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.
29. In a 100-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.
30. Water is the most common substance found on earth.
31. Ten percent of homes have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more per day.
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