Interesting facts about water

Interesting facts about water

Riga Ostvald Secondary School

Over 1.5 billion people do

not have access to clean water

Almost 4 million people die

each year from water

related diseases

It takes over 11,000 liters

of water to produce a pound

of coffee

Agriculture is responsible

for about 70% of the

world’s water usage.

Industry uses a further

22%

Roughly 70 percent of an

adult’s body is made up of

water

At birth, water accounts

for approximately 80

percent of an infant’s body

weight

Somewhere between 70 and

75 percent of the earth’s

surface is covered with

water

The earth is a closed

system, similar to a

terrarium, meaning that it

rarely loses or gains extra

matter. The same water

that existed on the earth

millions of years ago is still

present today

By the time a personfeels thirsty, his or herbody has lost over 1percent of its total wateramount

The weight a person losesdirectly after intensephysical activity is weightfrom water, not fat

Of all the water on the

earth, humans can used only

about three tenths of a

percent of this water. Such

usable water is found in

groundwater aquifers,

rivers, and fresh water

lakes

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