Water Facts
* More than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 2.4 billion people lack adequate sanitation.
* The privatization of water industry is already a 400 billion dollar a year business globally – one third larger than global pharmaceuticals.
* Less than 3% of the world’s water is freshwater. Of this freshwater supply, about five-sixths is frozen and thus inaccessible.
* Drinking too much water causes the sodium levels in the bloodstream to dilute causing imbalance of water in your brain. This is called ‘water intoxication’.
* In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs — collecting water for domestic use.
* The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.
* Lack of sanitation is the world’s biggest cause of infection.
* Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world’s available freshwater supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
* Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
* Most of the earth’s surface consists of water; there is much more water than there is land.
Drinking Water Facts
* Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
* The weight of a water molecule depends on the number of moles present, as it is 18 grams per mole.
* A typical individual in the United States uses 500 litres of water each day.
* Almost two in every three people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day and one in three on less than $1 a day.
* Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
* Over 1.5 billion people do not have access to clean, safe water.
* Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
* Lack of access to clean water and sanitation has claimed more lives through disease than any war through guns.
* Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate of human population growth.
* On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect water.
