Water, a substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in gaseous, liquid, and solid states.
- In Peru, there's a billboard that creates drinkable water out of thin air.
- The average toilet uses 6 litres (1.6 gal) of clean water in a single flush.
- Nearly 700 million Chinese peopledrink contaminated water.
- million people Die each year fromwater-related causes.
- About 1 in 9 people lack access to an improved water source.
- 1% of the World's Water Is Drinkable.
- Water itself does not conduct electricity well, but the impurities found in water do.
- An average swimming pool loses 1,000 gallons (3,785 L) a month to evaporation and other causes.
- People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water.
- Cold water is heavier than hot water.
- 90% of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
- There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
- Your bones are composed of 31% water.
- Two-thirds of the water used in the average home is used in the bathroom.
- Approximately 75% of human feces is made of water.
- Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.
- The probability that you in any glass of water will find at least 1 molecule of water once drunk by Cleopatra is practically 100%.
- Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass or 0.4% of the earth by volume.
- Drinking too much water can cause a water intoxication.
- 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in a single lake: Russia's Lake Baikal.
- Water is light turquoise bluedue to the weak absorption in the red part of the visible spectrum.
- Hot water can freeze faster thancold water, in some circumstances.
- 86% of holy water tested in Austria contained fecal matter, mostly from people's hands.
- The first known vending machine dates back to the 1st Century AD. It accepted a coin, then dispensed holy water.
- Bill Gates Sponsors a Machine That Turns Poop Into Drinking Water.
- The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.
- It takes up to 2,900 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans.
- Giraffes can go longer without drinking water than camels can.
- The world record for holding one's breath underwater is 22 minutes.
- The boiling point of waterat the top of Mt. Everest is 71 °C (160 °F).
- A man revived 5 rivers and brought water back to 1000 villages in India using native water preservation techniques.
- The skin is 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.
- You can save 2,190 gallons of water per person per year by only flushing the toilet once a day.
- Only about .003 percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.
- Washing dishes by hand use almost 7 times the amount of water as a modern dishwasher.
- In 2013, two physicist managed to "tie" water into knots.
- The average American golf course consumes around 312,000 gallons of water per day.
- The U.S. uses less water now than it did in 1970.
- The number of H2O molecules in 10 drops of waterare equal to the number of all the stars in the universe.
- Scientists believe cats are afraid of water because their ancestors lived in an area with very few large bodies of water and never had to learn how to swim.
- A new model of the chemistry of the early solar system says that up to half the water now on Earth was inherited from an abundant supply of interstellar ice as our sun formed.
- The chlorine in swimming pools isn't what causes red eyes. It is the chlorine binding to the bacteria in the water.
- Approximately 70% of the freshwater used by humans goes to agriculture and livestock.
- California's interconnected water system is the world's largest, managing over 40,000,000 acre feet of water per year.
- It takes about 50 glasses of water to grow the oranges to make one glass of orange juice.
- It takes about 37 gallons (140 liters) of water to grow the coffee beans and process them to make one cup of coffee.
- The average shower wastes 20 gallons (75 L) of water.
- It can take 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single T-shirt.
- In 2013, after more than 20 years of soda being America's number one beverage, water has taken over as Americans' favorite drink.
- Living in sight of water can make you calmer, happier and more creative, a study found.
- Polluted water kills children at a rate equivalent to a fully laden jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
- At least 22 million gallons of water is trapped in plastic bottles and thrown into landfills every year in the U.S. alone.
- More than 1 billion people still do not have access to fresh water.
- The names of the English rivers Avon, Axe, Esk, Exe and Ouse all mean ‘river' or ‘water' in various ancient languages.
- There is a reservoir of water 3 times the volume of all the oceans deep beneath the Earth's surface.
- There are no reported cases of runners dying of dehydration during marathons, but there are plenty of cases of runners dying from water intoxication.
- Water tastes stale when left out overnight because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.
- In Hong Kong, about 80% of residents flush their toilets with seawater.
- Tina Christopherson, a woman reportedly having the IQ of 189, died in 1977 when she fanatically drank 4 gallons (15 litres) of water a day in an effort to "cleanse her body" of what she suspected was stomach cancer.
- Ice cubes look white due to oxygen and other impurities. If the water is boiled before it's frozen, the resulting ice cubes will be clear.
- A reservoir of water 3 times the volume of all the oceans is located deep beneath the Earth's surface.