Fun Water Facts


FUN FACTS ABOUT WATER

  • Sometimes drinking water looks grey and cloudy because of air bubbles. If you let the water sit undisturbed, the air bubbles will escape into the air and the water will clear.
  • Today the Earth has the same amount of water as it did when the Earth was formed.
  • Water expands when it’s frozen and is lighter than liquid water …This is why ice floats in water. This property is unique to water, most other substances contract when frozen. It is this peculiar property of water that allows life to survive on Earth. Imagine what would happen if lakes, ponds and wetlands were frozen solid from bottom to top in the winter!
  • Roughly 70 per cent of an adult’s body is made of water.
  • More fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the Earth’s surface.
  • The total amount of water on the earth is over 1 billion cubic kilometers!
  • By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 per cent of its total water amount.
  • If all of the world’s water fit into a 4L milk jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.
  • Over 90 per cent of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.
  • Human brains are 75 per cent water.
  • Human bones are 25 per cent water.
  • Human blood is 83 per cent water.
  • 75 per cent of a chicken is water.
  • Each day the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water that stays in our atmosphere until it condenses and falls back to the Earth as precipitation.
  • A single tree will give off 265 liters of water per day in evaporation.
  • An acre of corn will give off 15,000 litres of water per day in evaporation.
  • The United Nations General Assembly, in December 2003, proclaimed the years 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’.