• The only water we will ever have is what we have right now.
• Showers use 9 gallons of water per minute. A bath requires 30-50 gallons.
• Once ground water is polluted, it may remain that way for several thousand years.
• It can take 120 gallons of water to produce one egg!
• A hot water faucet that leaks one drop per second can waste 192 gallons of water and 48 kilowatt hours of electricity per month!
• Fountains throw gallons of water (each weighing 8.36 lbs per gallon) up in the air several times a minute!

• Human blood is 83% water. Human bones are 25% water.
• Running the tap waiting for hot or cold water, can waste 5 gallons per minute.
• 97% of water on earth is salt water; only 3% is fresh water.
• Most of the fresh water stored on earth is frozen on glaciers
• Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) tons of water.

• The earth's surface is approximately 80% water. That's about 362,000,000,000,000 (362 trillion) gallons of water.
• A watermelon is 93% water
• "Water" was the first word that Helen Keller learned. "water" was the last word spoken by President Ulysses S. Grant.
• In some deserts, rain is so uncommon that the natives don't have a word for it.
• Over 42,000 gallons of water are needed to grow and pre pare the food for a typical Thankgiving dinner for eight in the United States. This is enough water to fill a 30 x 50 foot swimming pool.

• The people in the U.S. use as much as 700,000,000,000 (700 billion) gallons of water each day.
• Heating water is the second largest energy user in the home. Cooling water is the largest energy user in the United States.
• The Koala bear and the desert rat do not drink water.
• There are about 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (8 septillion) water molecules in one glass of water!
• In a one hundred 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 a week in the atmosphere.

(Adapted from "Water Wonders". National Rural Water Association, 1988)