- 52% of North Carolina’s population depends upon ground water for its drinking water supply
- The first municipal water filtration works opened in Paisley, Scotland in 183
- Of all the earth’s water, 97% is salt water found in oceans and seas
- About two thirds of the human body is water
- The average daily requirement for fresh water in the United States is about 40 billion gallons a day, with about 300 billion gallons used untreated for agriculture and commercial purposes
- You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water
- If every household in America had a faucet that dripped once each second, 928 million gallons of water a day would leak away
- A dairy cow must drink four gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk
- One gallon of water weighs approximately 8.33 pounds
- A person should consume 2½ quarts of water per day (from all sources of water, food, etc.) to maintain health
- 65% of the human body is water, 75% of the human brain is water