Fascinating Water Facts: Understanding Our Most Precious Resource
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Did you know that it takes about 300 liters of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper? A 5-minute shower in the U.S. uses more water than a person living in a developing world slum uses in an entire day. Shocking statistics reveal that roughly half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people suffering from water-related illnesses. Learn more about the global water crisis, how little usable water we have, and the staggering amount of clean water that can be provided for just one dollar.
Fascinating Water Facts: Understanding Our Most Precious Resource
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Did You Know Water Facts: By Alexis Carozza and Lauren Weiner
It takes about 300 liters of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper. A five minute shower in an American household will use more water than a person living in a developing world slum will use in a whole day.
About half the world’s hospital beds are occupied by someone with a water related illness. 80% of all illness in the developing world comes from water born diseases
Water consumption in a US household is eight times that of an Indian household. As little as one dollar can provide clean water for a child in the developing world for an entire year.
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. Industries released 197 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 1990.
More than 79,000 tons of chlorine are used per year in the United States and Canada to treat water. A dairy cow must drink four gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk.
Typically, households consume at least 50% of their water by lawn watering. Inside, toilets use the most water, with an average of 27 gallons per person per day. You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.
The water in Lake Tahoe could cover a flat area the size of California 14 inches deep. This amount of water is enough to supply everyone in the U.S. with 50 gallons of water/day for 5 years. Approximately 1 million miles of pipelines and aqueducts carry water in the United States and Canada. That's enough to circle the earth 40 times.
