97% of the earth’s water is ocean salt water. The remaining 3% is fresh water but two thirds of this fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps leaving only 1% available for human consumption.

There is the same amount of water on earth as there was when the earth was formed billions of years ago.

The water that you are using today could contain molecules that the Neanderthals drank. At about 150 gallons per person daily, the United States uses more water than any other country in the world. Europeans use about 53 gallons per day and Africans only about 6 gallons per day.

Over a typical 100 year span, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months locked in ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in our atmosphere.

It can take a whole lifetime for groundwater to travel just one mile.

Water regulates the earth's temperature.

Frozen water (ice) is 9% lighter than water (this is why ice floats on water).

A gallon of water weighs about 8.33 pounds.

Water is considered "saline" (salt water) and undrinkable after as little as one part salt is added to one thousand parts of fresh water. If the entire world's water were able to fit into a one gallon bucket, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.

One cubic mile of water equals over 1.1 Trillion gallons. The earth contains about 344,000,000 cubic miles of water and exists as follows:

• 315,000,000 cubic miles – salt water in the ocean • 9,000,000 cubic miles - groundwater in aquifers • 7,000,000 cubic miles - frozen in polar ice caps • 53,000 cubic miles of water is passing through lakes and streams • 4,000 cubic miles of water is atmospheric moisture • And 3,400 cubic miles of water are locked within living things. For example:

66% of the human body is water (about 10 gallons). 75% of our brain is water. 25% of the bone in our body is water. 83% of the blood in our body is water. 75% of a chicken is water. 80% of a pineapple is water. 95% of a tomato is water. 70% of an elephant is water.

Over 90% of the world's supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.

Each day the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water.

A single average size tree will give lose 70 gallons of water per day to evaporation.

An acre of corn will lose 4,000 gallons of water per day to evaporation.

A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 20 gallons of water a day.

A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.

A person must consume the equivalent of about five and one half 12 ounce bottles of water daily to live healthily - an average of 20,000 gallons of water during their life.

More than 2 billion people on earth do not have a safe supply of fresh water.

Water leaves the stomach five minutes after consumption.

Two thirds of the water used in a home is used in the bathroom.

To flush a toilet we use 2 to 7 gallons of our fresh drinking water - the single greatest water user inside our home.

A five-minute shower uses 25 to 50 gallons of water. Contrary to what you may think, a bath uses less water than a typical shower.

Brushing your teeth uses about 2 gallons of water.

An automatic dishwasher uses 9 to 12 gallons of water.

A washing machine will use 20 to 50 gallons of water for each load of clothes.

At least 400 million people live in regions with severe water shortages and the number is growing exponentially. Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch their fresh water.

Freshwater animals are disappearing five times faster than land animals.

It takes 1 gallon of water to process one bottle of beer.

It takes 120 gallons of water to produce one egg.

It takes 132 gallons of water to grow one orange.

Processing one chicken requires 11.6 gallons of water.

Processing one can of fruit or vegetables requires 9.3 gallons of water.

The amount of water required to grow just one day's food for a typical family of four is about 6,800 gallons.

It takes 1,850 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.

The average size car required 39,000 gallons of water to manufacture.

It took 2,072 gallons of water to make the four tires on your car.