Water on Earth
1. According to National Geographic, out of a total of 1.386 billion km3 of water that exists on Earth, up to 97% is salt water and 3% of the meager fresh water exists on the ground in the form of rivers, lakes, and swamps. used by humans and animals. Fresh water sources include groundwater, rivers, streams, etc.
2. 96.5% of the water on Earth is in the vast oceans, which cover 71% of our planets surface.
3. Lake BaiKal in Asia accounts for 20% of all freshwater on Earth, and Great Lakes (Huron, MichiGan, and Superior) also account for 20% of all freshwater on Earth. Rivers account for only about 0.006% of all fresh water on Earth.
4. If all existing sources of groundwater pollution are eliminated. In just 10 years, 98% of this groundwater will no longer be polluted, people can use it in daily life.
5. According to Wikipedia, every day the sun evaporates billions of tons of water vapor. The air contains up to 12,900 km3 of water, 6 times the volume of water contained in rivers.
6. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it goes, water carries chemicals, nutrients, minerals with it.
7. 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.
8. Water has an interesting property that is "sticky". It likes to stick to itself and other things. This property explains why water often clumps into round droplets.
Water and the human body
On average, each person drinks 2 liters of water per day, that person consumes about 55,000 liters of water in a lifetime. This amount of water is many times the persons body weight.
According to Science.howstuffworks, every day an average adult loses about 1.4 liters of water when urinating, 0.5 liters through sweat, 237ml through breathing. Therefore, you need to regularly replenish 2.5 liters of water per day.
Water is an integral part of every cell in the body. 31% of bone is made up of water. Water exists mainly in the pores in the bones, has the role of diffusing nutrients and contributing to the elasticity of the bones.
According to wikipedia statistics: our body loses water from 3 to 4% begins to cause bad health consequences. A drop of 5 to 8% can cause fatigue and dizziness. Loss of more than 10% of total body water can cause physical and mental decline, accompanied by severe thirst. Death occurs when 15-25% of body water is lost.
According to Vivid Times: the brain is not the solid gray mass we see on television. The brain tissue is very soft, pink, jelly-like, due to the large amount of water and blood inside. 75% of the brain structure of the brain is water.
The total amount of water in a newborns body amounts to 70-83% of body weight. During the first 6 months of life, the amount of water in the babys body will gradually decrease as a percentage of body weight and there is no correlation with the age or sex of the baby.
The human body is about 70% water, the lungs are 90% water, and the blood is 82% water.
According to WHO, the average Vietnamese person aged 15 years and over drinks 8.3 liters of pure alcohol per year, this amount is equivalent to 21 liters of alcohol or 170 liters of beer.
Daily Water
To produce and use 4 liters of gasoline will pollute up to 2.8 liters of water.
The US National Institutes of Health has shown that 80% of cases in developing countries, including Vietnam, stem from unsafe drinking water quality. As a basic component of the body, the wrong way of drinking water leads to an increased tendency of a variety of diseases.
Research by Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), shows that hot water can freeze faster than cold water under some conditions (commonly known as the Mpemba effect).
A natural swimming pool takes about 1,000 gallons or 3,785 liters per month. The loss of swimming pool water is due to the natural process of water evaporation.
According to WHO statistics, the leakage of domestic water will cause a loss of more than 1 billion gallons of water annually in that country. This is equal to the annual water use of more than 11 households.
According to the United Nations, by 2025, up to a quarter of the worlds population will face water scarcity. One of the causes leading to the above incident is the industrial lifestyle of people, which accelerates the rate of environmental pollution, including water pollution.
In the article "World Water Day" of the United Nations, a haunting information was published. In developing countries women and children are responsible for collecting water. On average, they have to spend up to 25% of the time to perform the above task.
EPA Watersense has published haunting information, every day South African women and children have to walk a distance equivalent to 16 times to the moon and back for the purpose of fetching water.
If your faucet is not locked, every single drop of water that comes out of the faucet can waste up to 75 liters of water per day.
Hydrologists estimate, according to the National Geographic Society, that the countrys groundwater reserves are equivalent to the amount of water the Mississippi River has discharged into the Gulf of Mexico over the past 200 years.
The freezing point of water is lower as the amount of dissolved salts in the water increases. With an average stream level, sea water will freeze at -2 degrees Celsius.
Nairobi is the capital and major city of Kenya (Africa), the urban poor pay 10 times more for water than people living in New York.
It takes 6,800 gallons of water to produce enough food for a family of 4 for a day.
Conclusion
Obviously, water is an extremely important resource to care about if you dont want to consider it the most important resource on Earth. The Water MAN does not guarantee that the above information is interesting, but we do guarantee it is important and you should know.
From knowing the above information, you must definitely cherish the clean water you are using every day. Still the message repeated by The Water MAN "Water is priceless but not endless". Do not forget to share the article so that the interesting information accompanying this meaningful message gets closer to many people.
