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Water
Conversion Factors
One cubic foot of water=7.48 gallons
Water weighs: 8.34 lb/gal - 62.4 lb/cu.ft
One cubic foot=1728 cu.in.
One pound of pressure will raise water 2.31 feet.
One gallon per minute =1440 gallons per day.
One oscillation lawn sprinkler will disperse 4 to
8 gallons per minute.
Water
Facts
Some 80% of the world is covered by water
or ice. Only abut 20% is dry land.
97% of the water on
earth is salty ocean and 2% is frozen. The
remaining 1% is available to meet human needs.
In 1652, Boston
became the country's first incorporated water
works system.
If you're an adult,
your body contains about 40 quarts or 10 gallons
of water.
A man's body is
60-65% water. A woman's is 50-60% water. The human
brain is about 75% water.
Muscle tissue
contains a large amount of water. Fat tissues
contain virtually no water. Men tend to have more
muscle as a percentage of body weight while women
have more fat.
You lose 2.5 to 3
quarts of water per day through normal
elimination, sweating and breathing. If you
exercise or live in a humid climate, you may lose
another quart.
It has zero
calories and zero sugar, but a good drink of water
can reduce hunger. Water also helps rid the body
of wastes.
Lawn sprinkling
uses the most water outdoors. Inside, toilets use
the most, with an average of 27 gallons per person
per day. Laundry averages 17 gallons per person
per day and showers 14 gallons.
Typically, less
than 1% of the treated drinking water produced by
utilities is actually consumed by people. Most
goes for lawns, showers and tubs, toilets, etc.
Did you know that
the original water mains, were trees with the
middle hollowed out?
Did you know that
when water freezes, the volume can expand up to
9%?
You can survive
about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days
without water.
If every household
in America had a faucet that dripped once each
second, we would waste 928 million gallons of
water a day.
It takes more than
39,000 gallons of water to manufacture a new car,
including tires.
It takes 1,500
gallons of water to make 1 barrel of beer.
75% of a tree is
water. The five great lakes contain about 20% of
the world's available water.
One gallon of
gasoline can contaminate approximately 750,000
gallons of water, which is one days pumping for
the town of Hopkinton.
The average daily
demand for fresh water is 338 billion gallons a
day, with only 38 billion used for drinking and
cooking.
61% of American's
rely on lakes, rivers and streams as their source
of drinking water. The other 39% rely on
groundwater, located in aquifers and wells.
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