{"id":2747,"date":"2021-05-14T03:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2023-10-17T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:23:14","slug":"water-facts-of-life-ride-the-water-cycle-with-these-fun-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/water-facts-of-life-ride-the-water-cycle-with-these-fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Facts of Life..!! Ride the water cycle with these fun facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed.<\/li>\n<li>Water is composed of two elements, Hydrogen and Oxygen. 2 Hydrogen + 1 Oxygen = H2O.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 97% of the world\u2019s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for all of humanity\u2019s needs \u2014 all its agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and personal needs.<\/li>\n<li>Water regulates the Earth\u2019s temperature. It also regulates the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes wastes.<\/li>\n<li>75% of the human brain is water and 75% of a living tree is water.<\/li>\n<li>A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.<\/li>\n<li>Water is part of a deeply interconnected system. What we pour on the ground ends up in our water, and what we spew into the sky ends up in our water.<\/li>\n<li>Water expands by 9% when it freezes. Frozen water (ice) is lighter than water, which is why ice floats in water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Water is the most important resource in the world. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here are 100 amazing facts about water that you may not know.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2750 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM.jpeg 516w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-300x276.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.<\/p>\n<p>30% of fresh water is in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>1.7% of the world\u2019s water is frozen and therefore unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one-half of the water used by Americans is used for thermoelectric power generation.<\/p>\n<p>In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside).<\/p>\n<p>Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.<\/p>\n<p>The freezing point of water lowers as the amount of salt dissolved in at increases. With average levels of salt, seawater freezes at -2 \u00b0C (28.4 \u00b0F).<\/p>\n<p>About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day\u2019s food for a family of four.<\/p>\n<p>To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>780 million people lack access to an improved water source.<\/p>\n<p>In just one day, 200 million work hours are consumed by women collecting water for their families.<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 what the world spends on bottled water in one year could pay for projects providing water to everyone in need.<\/p>\n<p>Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.<\/p>\n<p>A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2752 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-1.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-1-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>70% of the human brain is water.<\/p>\n<p>80% of all illness in the developing world is water related.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 50% of water is lost through leaks in cities in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>In Nairobi urban poor pay 10 times more for water than in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In some countries, less than half the population has access to clean water.<\/p>\n<p>$260 billion is the estimated annual economic loss from poor water and sanitation in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>40 billion hours are spent collecting water in Africa alone.<\/p>\n<p>The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.<\/p>\n<p>A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.<\/p>\n<p>Water expands by 9% when it freezes.<\/p>\n<p>There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the side of a cube which could hold the Earth\u2019s estimated total volume of water in km = 1150.<\/p>\n<p>Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average adult.<\/p>\n<p>85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture accounts for ~70% of global freshwater withdrawals (up to 90% in some fast-growing economies).<\/p>\n<p>Various estimates indicate that, based on business as usual, ~3.5 planets Earth would be needed to sustain a global population achieving the current lifestyle of the average European or North American.<\/p>\n<p>Number of states are anticipating water shortages by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>1 in 6 gallons of water leak from utility pipes before reaching customers in the US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2751 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-2.jpeg 473w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.25-AM-2-262x300.jpeg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American use 5.7 billion gallons per day from toilet flushes.<\/p>\n<p>Refilling a half-liter water bottle 1,740 times with tap water is the equivalent cost of a 99 cent water bottle at a convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>It takes about 12 gallons per day to sustain a human (this figure takes into account all uses for water, like drinking, sanitation and food production).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Each day, we also lose a little more than a cup of water (237 ml) when we exhale it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By 2025, water withdrawals are predicted to increase by 50 percent in developing countries and 18 percent in developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025 half the world\u2019s people will live in countries with high water stress.<\/p>\n<p>A water-efficient dishwasher uses as little as 4 gallons per cycle but hand washing dishes uses 20 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>The average family of four uses 180 gallons of water per day outdoors. It is estimated that over 50% is wasted from evaporation, wind, or overwatering.<\/p>\n<p>It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does tea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under some conditions (commonly known as the Mpemba effect).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the entire world\u2019s water were fit into a 4 liter jug, the fresh water available for us would equal only about one tablespoon.<\/p>\n<p>Over 90% of the world\u2019s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>Water regulates the Earth\u2019s temperature.<\/p>\n<p>On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your<\/p>\n<p>indoor use) is lost to leaks.<\/p>\n<p>The average pool takes 22,000 gallons of water to fill.<\/p>\n<p>It takes about 70 gallons of water to fill a bathtub.<\/p>\n<p>Flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco, about 700 miles round-trip, could cost you more than 9,000 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century.<\/p>\n<p>Only 0.007 percent of the planet\u2019s water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Three quarters of all Americans live within 10 miles of polluted water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM.jpeg 338w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM-194x300.jpeg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A swimming pool naturally loses about 1,000 gallons (3,785 liters) a month to evaporation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>40% of freshwater withdrawals in the United States are used for agriculture. 80% of freshwater withdrawals in India are used for agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Freshwater withdrawals for agriculture exceed 90% in many countries: Cambodia 94%, Pakistan 94%, Vietnam 95%, Madagascar 97%, Iran 92%, Ecuador 92%.<\/p>\n<p>If everyone in the US used just one less gallon of water per shower every day, we could save some 85 billion gallons of water per year.<\/p>\n<p>Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30\u00d750 foot swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight.<\/p>\n<p>An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Water is the most common substance found on earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Washington state alone, glaciers provide 1.8 trillion liters (470 billion gallons) of water each summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Water makes up about 66 percent of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Drinking too much water can be fatal (known as water intoxication).<\/p>\n<p>There is more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all of the rivers on the planet combined.<\/p>\n<p>If all of the water vapor in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere fell at once, distributed evenly, it would only cover the earth with about an inch of water.<\/p>\n<p>263 rivers either cross or demarcate international political boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Of the estimated 1.4 billion hectares of crop land worldwide, around 80 percent is rainfed and accounts for about 60 percent of global agricultural output (the other 40% of output is from irrigated crop land).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM-1.jpeg 606w, https:\/\/www.vardhmanenvirotech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-14-at-9.01.42-AM-1-300x187.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons annually nationwide. That\u2019s equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ten percent of homes have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more per day.<\/p>\n<p>A leaky faucet that drips at the rate of one drip per second can waste more than 3,000 gallons per year.<\/p>\n<p>Each cubic foot of Martian soil contains around two pints of liquid water, though the molecules are not freely accessible, but rather bound to other minerals in the soil.<\/p>\n<p>There is an estimated 326 million trillion gallons of water on earth.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has discovered water in the form of ice on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>A 2.6 billion year old pocket of water was discovered in a mine, 2 miles below the earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two-thirds of the world\u2019s population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>1 gallon of wine requires 1,008 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>A 0.3 pound burger requires 660 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>1 slice of bread requires 11 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>1 apple requires 18 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>1 pound of chocolate requires 3,170 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>500 sheets of paper requires 1,321 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>Ground water occurs almost everywhere beneath the land surface. The widespread occurrence of potable ground water is the reason that it is used as a source of water supply by about one-half the population of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>At any given moment, groundwater is 20 to 30 times greater than the amount in all the lakes, streams, and rivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The High Plains Aquifer covers eight states and 175,000 miles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Collect the water from rain,<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>let it run into the earth again<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Vardhman Envirotech,<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>India\u2019s Passionate Rainwater Company<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. 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