Conserve Water & Save Life
Know More About Water
Things to know more about Water
- Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
- At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
- A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
- Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication
occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance
of water in the brain.
- Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
- While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this
water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides
some water to the body.
- Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain
caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to
necessary locations in the body.
- Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither
acidic nor basic.
- Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water
carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
- Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
- Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s
surface.
- The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses
or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years
ago is still present today.
- The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
- 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.
- By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its
total water amount.
- The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from
water, not fat
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