Did you know… Water Edition

By Mo Godin and

Perry Ann Turnbull Callahan

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Everyday, 2,000 children die from a lack of a access to clean drinking water. This is the equivalent of a Sandy Hook massacre every 20 minutes.

The amount of water used in the United States each day could fill 606,061 Olympic sized swimming pools

11% of the worlds population does not have access to safe drinking water. This is twice the population of the United States

Experts recommend drinking half a gallon of fresh water per day. You use 6 times that with each flush of the toilet.

The water used to run your dish washer once could quench the thirst of a child for two months

Golf courses in Arizona use 101,985,957,436 gallons of water per year.

Every time the Sedky family fills their swimming pool, they could be giving a family of 5 water for 27 years.

It takes 11.6 galloons of water to process a chicken. This could hydrate somebody for 23 days.

It takes 39,000 gallons of water to manufacture one new car.The average African family uses 5 gallons of water per day

The amount of water used to make a new car could sustain 7,800 African families

At any one time, half the world's hospital beds are occupied with patients suffering from waterborne diseases

The amount of water used to irrigate golf courses each day could sustain 4.7 billion people.

Water in United States costs 1 penny for 5 gallons

A 10 minute shower can use 100 gallons of water. This could hydrate a person for 200 days.

Every year, 60 million children are born into houses without access to clean water.

The cost of an iPod shuffle could bring 2 people water for cooking, drinking and hygiene