Water Facts

• 66% of your body is water.
• 80% of the earth’s surface is water.
• 97% of the earth’s water is in the oceans and seas.
• A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
• A person can survive without food for more than 30 days, but less than a week without water.
• A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
• Bones are 25% water.
• Corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
• Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.
• 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
• Human blood is 83% water.
• In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about two weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
• It takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.
• It takes 120 gallons of water to produce one egg.
• Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30-by-50-foot swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight.
• The average household uses 107,000 gallons of water per year.
• The first water pipes made in the U. S. were fire-charred, bored-out logs.
• The only water we will ever have is what we have now.
• There are over 1 million miles of water pipelines and aqueducts in the
• There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the United States and Canada. That’s enough to circle the globe 40 times.
• Water is the most common substance found on earth.
• Water is the only substance on earth naturally found in the three rule element forms: solid, liquid, and gas.

Learn More
To learn more about our water supply, please contact the Water Department at (276) 679-1160.