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Water Fun Facts  - The only water we will ever have is what we have right now
- 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 one week in the atmosphere
- Each day the sun evaporates one trillion tons of water
- Water is the only substance on Earth naturally found in the three true element forms: solid, liquid, gas
- 80% of the Earth's surface is water
- 97% of the Earth's water is salt water in the oceans and seas, 2% is stored as fresh water in glaciers, ice caps, and snowy mountain ranges, which leaves only 1% for our daily water supply needs
- 66% of your body is water
- Bones are 25% water
- Human blood is 83% water
- A person can survive without food for more than 30 days, but less than one week without water
- The first water pipes made in the U.S. were fire-charred, bored-out logs
- There are over 1 million miles of water pipelines and aqueducts in the U.S. and Canada - enough to circle the globe 40 times
- There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the U.S., which process over 35 billion gallons of water daily
- The average household uses 107,000 gallons of water each year
- It takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil
- It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process one barrel of beer
- Over 42,000 gallons of water are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight
- A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water each day in evaporation
- An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water each day in evaporation
- Fresh water is used for a variety of purposes. Agricultural uses represent the largest consumer of fresh water, about 42%. About 39% is used for the production of electricity; 11% is used in urban and rural homes, offices, and hotels; and the remaining 8% is used in manufacturing and mining activities.
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