WATER! It is our life. Here are 55 surprising water facts that will surely blow your mind. So, without much further ado, read on and don’t forget to share it!
55 Surprising Water Facts:
- 70% of earth is under water of which 2% is fresh water but 1.6% of it cannot be used as it is in polar ice
caps and glaciers. So, only 0.4% water can be used by 7.9 billion people on earth. - A human foetus constitutes around 95% water for the first months, getting to 77% water at birth and 60-
70% water in adults. - Bones are watery and contain 31% water.
- 70% human brain also consists of water.
- You can make instant snow from boiling water.
- Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
- Water appears blue, while water, ice, and snow appear colourless in small quantities, the substance is actually blue.
- Water increases in volume as it freezes.
- You can bend a water stream using static electricity.
- Animals who live under water get oxygen only from water.
11. Water regulates earth’s temperature.
12. 780 million people lack proper access to water
13. Developing countries suffer from lack of clean water
14. There are places in developing countries where people spend hours to get a bucket of drinkable water
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15. Water consumption is increasing 2 times more than the total world population.
16. A water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean.
17. It’s not oxygen but water which is the most common substance on earth.
18. 2/3 of the world will face water scarcity by 2050
19. Earth’s water amount hardly changes.
20. Only volcano eruptions add slightly more water to earth.
21. A person may live only few days without water.
22. Camels can survive 7 months without drinking water.
23. Water is universal solvent. water facts
24. Each year 3.6 million people die from water related diseases.
25. Average American uses 2000 gallons of water every day.
26. Average African family uses 5 gallons of water each day.
27. It takes a lot of water in producing clothes or in textile industries.
28. Cutting 4 minutes from your shower can save a lot of water.
29. 80% of stomach diseases are caused by water pollution.
30. A leaky faucet that drips at the rate of one drip per second can waste more than 3,000 gallons per year.
31. 10% of houses have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more per day.
32. If all of the water vapor in earth’s atmosphere fell at once, distributed evenly, it would only cover the
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33. There is more water in the atmosphere than in all rivers of the earth combined.
34. The skin is 64% water, muscles and kidneys 79% water.
35. 1/3 of the world spends on bottled water which could have rather used by those who don’t have easy
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36. Insect like water strider can walk on water.
37. It has been found that there is a warm ocean under the ice crust of Enceladus- Saturn’s moon.
38. Drinking too much water in a short time can be dangerous and lead to water intoxication.
39. A child dies from water disease every 15 seconds.
40. There are no scientific studies that support the recommendation to drink 8 glasses of water per day.
41. It takes about 70 gallons of water to fill a bathtub.
42. The average pool takes 22,000 gallons of water to fill.
43. Chicken and goat are the least water concentrated meats to consume.
44. It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does in producing tea.
45. 300 tons of water are required to manufacture 1 ton of steel.
46. Water expands by 9% when it freezes.
47. A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.
48. The freezing point of water lowers as the amount of salt dissolved in at increases.
49. 30% of fresh water is in the ground.
50. It is believed that all the water on earth arrived during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment
between 4.5bn and 3.8bn years ago in comets and asteroids.
51. Bill Gates has a machine that can convert poop into drinking water.
52. Scientists have found a really big pool of water (water vapor) just floating out there in the space.
53. In Peru, there’s a billboard that creates drinkable water with nothing but thin air.
54. It actually takes about 12 gallons per day to sustain a human if we include all uses for water, like
drinking, sanitation, and food production.
55. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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