FACT:
- There is the same amount of water on the planet now as millions of years ago
- The same water gets recycled through the hydrological cycle
- Rises up in evaporation and transpiration
- Is carried across the atmosphere by the prevailing winds
- Drops down in precipitation
- Some runs off and is carried to rivers to the ocean (where it evaporates again)
- Some percolates down and recharges the ground water
- Water is the "universal solvent"
it dissolves a little of everything it contacts. This is why it can become such an environmental or household issue
It carries dissolved contaminants and some solids with it as it travels through the ground or in plumbing
- Most of us could survive a month without food, but only 5-7 days without water
- Most of your brain and your body are made up of water
- Water weights 8.34 pounds per gallon
- Water is used in the metric system to convert volume to weight: One cubic centimeter of water = one milliliter of water = one gram
- Water is used to measure calories: One calorie = the energy required to raise one milliliter of water one degree Celsius
- There are 1.47 gallons for every foot of water in a 6” drilled well.
The average American household uses 75 gallons of water per day per person.
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