I propose, since water is so important for our quality of life and life itself, that this become a collaborative effort! I will start to put down facts, and anyone that wants to can add up their own factoids, and I will incorporate them here! Let’s see how many water facts we can gather!! Any fact around water is good to go!!
It can be about your community or some interesting tid bit! I will add to my list every once in a while so stay tuned! I will also give you a shout out with every contribution!
Here are my first 10 useful and interesting Water Facts:
We are 70% water by the time we are adult humans!
We are born with so much water that we are 80% water as infants
We can live for about a month without food but only a week without water
68.7% of all the fresh water on our planet is trapped in glaciers
Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid
We lose a little more than 237 ml or a cup of water when we exhale every day
A healthy adult can drink 3 gallons or 48 cups or 11356.2 ml of water per day.
Water helps maintain energy levels- the most common cause of fatigue is mild dehydration.
When you lose weight after exercising it’s water, not fat.
30% of all fresh water on earth is in the ground