- Almost 70% of all fresh water is used for agriculture.
- Over-pumping of groundwater exceeds natural replenishment rates by at least 160 billion cubic meters a year
- 1,000 to 3,000 liters of water is needed to produce just one kilogram of rice
- Over 90% of the world’s fresh water supplies are located in Antarctica.
- Around 25 740 liters of water is needed to grow a day’s worth of food for a family of four.
- Freshwater animals are becoming extinct five times faster than land animals.
- If one-thousandth (or more) of the weight of water is salt, the water is considered “saline.”
- A gallon of petrol can contaminate 2 839 058 liters of water
- Freshwater lakes and rivers, ice and snow, and underground aquifiers hold only 2.5% of the world’s water. By comparison, saltwater oceans and seas contain 97.5% of the world’s water supply.
- 50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost since 1900
- Once evaporated, a water molecule spends about 10 days in the air.
- In nearly all the world’s major religions, water is attributed important symbolic and ceremonial properties.
- Each day almost 10,000 children under the age of 5 in Third World countries die as a result of illnesses contracted by use of impure water.
- African and Asian women walk an average of 4 miles each trip in order to fetch water.
- One drop of oil can cause up to 25 liters of water unfit for drinking.
- You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.
- Roughly 12% of the world’s population, or 884 million people, do not have access to safe water.
- One acre of broad-leafed forest may release as much as 30,000 liters of water into the atmosphere every day.
- The average toilet cistern flushes on average 9 liters with every use and 9 liters are definitely not require to clear the toilet bowl every time. This amounts to a large amount of clean fresh water wastage.
- The typical household in London uses about 250 liters of water a day. That amounts to 7500 liters a month.
- Taking a bath could use between 80 and 150 liters of water.
- Taking a five-minute shower a day, instead of a bath, could save up to 400 liters of water a week.
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