A quarter of the worlds population is
without safe drinking water.
Less than 1% of the water treated by
public water systems is used for drinking and cooking.
In the time it took you to read these
first three facts another child has just died in the developing world
from unsafe drinking water.
About 34,000 people die each day worldwide due to diseases related
to water, faeces and dirt, such as cholera and infant diarrhoea. In
developing countries, 80% of illnesses are water related. (Source:
Environment Canada).
If you donated £10 or $15 to providing
Safe Water that would be enough to give one person safe water for
life.
According to nutritionists
and healthcare professionals, we need to drink eight or more glasses of
water every day in order to stay healthy.
Water is the only substance
on Earth naturally found in three elemental forms: solid, liquid and gas.
Nature does not create new
water — it recycles the same water that existed on Earth billions of years
ago.
Each day the sun causes
about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.
Americans use about 21.7
billion UK gallons of water per day for household chores.
On average, each person in
the United States uses between 65 and 85 UK gallons of water per day. The
largest use of household water is to flush the toilet and to take showers
and baths.
An ear of corn is 80
percent water.
Nearly 60 percent of the
human body is made up of water — the lungs alone are 90% water and
the brain, up to 75%. 75% of trees are also made from water!
On average, 50 to 70
percent of summer household water use is for watering lawns and gardens.
Americans drink more than
one billion glasses of tap water per day.
Every year Americans
consume 2.1 billion UK gallons of bottled water.
Water facilitates weight
loss and helps you stay healthy and regular, especially important when you
are on a diet.
According to NASA the natural rotation
of the Earth has been altered slightly by some 10 trillion tons of water
stored in reservoirs over the past 40 years.
Water expands by 9% when it freezes,
making it less dense, which is why ice floats on water.
You could live for a month without food,
but you would be dead after a week without water!
In the United States forty-eight million
people receive their drinking water from private or household wells.
500,000 tons of pollutants pour into
lakes and rivers each day in the US alone.
Once it evaporates, a water molecule
spends around ten days in the air.
1 UK Gallon (approx 5 litres) of oil can
cause an eight-acre oil slick if spilled or dumped down a storm sewer!
97% of the worlds water is salty or
otherwise undrinkable, 2% is stored in glaciers and the ice caps, the
remaining 1% is left for humanity's needs.
