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25 Facts about Water
Each of us has a role in keeping water safe to drink. Just as "green thumb" people know how to care for plants, people with "Blue Thumbs" know how to take care of water. We invite you to show your "Blue Thumb" and take action to conserve and protect our water resources every day to help you learn more about water, here are 25 basic facts:
1. Water is the most common substance found on earth.
2. In 1989, Americans dumped 365 million gallons of motor oil or the equivalent of 27 Exxon Valdez spills.
3. Of all the earth's water, 97% is salt water located in oceans and seas.
4. Only 1% of the earth's water is available for drinking water.
5. About two thirds of the human body is water. Some parts of the body contain more water than others. For example, 70% of your skin is water.
6. There are more than 200,000 individual water systems providing water to the public in the United States.
7. Public water suppliers process ~4 billion gallons of water per day for domestic and public use.
8. 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.
9. About 800,000 water wells are drilled each year in the United States for domestic, farming, commercial, and water testing purposes.
10. Sixty-one percent of Americans rely on lakes, rivers, and streams as their source of drinking water. The other 39% rely on groundwater located underground in aquifers and wells.
11. In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act to ensure that drinking water is safe for consumption. The Act requires public water systems to monitor and treat drinking water for safety.
12. More than 13 million households drink from their own private wells and are responsible for treating and pumping the water themselves.
13. Industries released 197 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 1990 alone.
14. The average daily requirement for fresh water in the United States is about 338 billion gallons a day, with about 300 billion gallons used as untreated water and for agriculture and other commercial purposes.
15. You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.
16. Each person uses about 100 gallons of water a day at home.
17. The average five-minute shower takes between 25-50 gallons of water.
18. You can refill an 8 oz. glass of water approximately 15,000 times for the same cost as a six-pack of pop.
19. The average automatic dishwasher uses 9-12 gallons of water while hand washing dishes can take up to 20 gallons.
20. If every household in America had a faucet that dripped once each second, we would waste 928 million gallons of water a day.
21. The 5 Great Lakes bordering the United States contain about
20% of the world's available fresh water.
22. More than ~39,000 gallons of water are used to manufacture a new car, including tires.
23. Water is a main ingredient in other beverages and it takes water to process them. For example, it takes 1500 gallons of water to make one barrel of beer.
24. Seventy five percent of a tree is water.
25. One gallon of gasoline can contaminate approximately 750,000 gallons of water.