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Water Facts Did You Know? • Water is the most common substance found on earth. • The only water we will ever have is what we have right now. • Ina 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere. • Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water. • Water is the only substance on earth naturally found in the three true element forms: solid, liquid, and gas. • 80% of the earth's surface is water. • 97% of the earth's water is the oceans and seas. • 66% of your body is water. • Bones are 25% water. • Human blood is 83% water. • A person can survive without food for more than 30 days, but less than a week without water. • A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. • For every 2.31 feet that water is raised above the earth's surface it can create one pound per square inch of pressure. • For every 2.31 feet you are submerged below a body of water's surface there is 1 pound per square inch of pressure equally placed on your body. • The first water pipes made in the U.S. were fire-charred, bored-out logs. • There are over 1 million miles of water pipelines and aqua ducts in the United States and Canada -enough to circle the globe 40 times. • There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the U.S. • Community water systems process over 35 billion gallons of water daily. • The average household uses 107,000 gallons of water per year. • It takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil. • It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process one barrel of beer. • It takes 120 gallons of water to produce one egg. • Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30 x 50 foot swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight. • A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation. • An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation. Minnesota Rural Water Association 800-367-6792 -Fax: 218-685-5272 217 12'h Avenue SE Email: mrwa@mrwa.com Elbow Lake, MN 56531 Website: www.mrwa.com