Water Facts

Did you know you may be drinking the same water a dinosaur may have drank hundreds of thousands of years ago?

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

Groundwater can stay polluted for several thousand years

 

 

One inch of rain falling on one acre of land is equal to about 27,154 gallons of water. (United States Geological Survey)

 

 

 

Cool Water Facts and Myths

 

 

 

        

 

 

 


Nearly 97% of the world's water is saltwater or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is held in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just one percent for all of humanity's needs - agricultural, residential, manufacturing, and community needs. (United States Geological Survey)
In a one hundred year period, an average water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about two weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.