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Did You Know Water Facts:By Alexis Carozza and Lauren Weiner
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It takes about 300 liters of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper.
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.
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About half the world’s hospital beds are occupied by someone with a water related illness.
80% of all illness in the developing world comes from water born diseases
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Water consumption in a US household is eight times that of an Indian household.
As little as one dollar can provide clean water for a child in the developing world for an entire year.
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Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
Industries released 197 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 1990.
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More than 79,000 tons of chlorine are used per year in the United States and Canada to treat water.
A dairy cow must drink four gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk.
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Typically, households consume at least 50% of their water by lawn watering. Inside, toilets use the most water, with an average of 27 gallons per person per day.
You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.
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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.
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.