Water FactzBy Nick n’ Matt

• There are 326 million cubic miles of water on Earth.

• The first municipal water filtration works opened in Paisley, Scotland in 1832.

• Approximately 1 million miles of pipelines and aqueducts carry water in the United States and Canada. That's enough to circle the earth 40 times.

• 75% of a chicken, 80% of a pineapple, and 95% of a tomato is water.

• Industries released 197 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 1990.

• 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 8½ pounds.

• You can refill an 8 oz glass of water approximately 15,000 times for the same cost as a six-pack of soda.

• The first water pipes in the U.S. were made of hollowed-out logs.

• 352 days - record of consecutive days with no measurable precipitation in Sentinel, AZ (Feb 1901 - Jan 1902).

• The water in Lake Tahoe could cover a flat area the size of California 14 inches deep. This amount of water is enough to supply everyone in the U.S. with 50 gallons of water/day for 5 years.

• About half the world’s hospital beds are occupied by someone with a water related illness.

• A five minute shower in an American household will use more water than a person living in a developing world slum will use in a whole day.

• Water consumption in a US household is eight times that of an Indian household.