 | For $33.30 you can buy
8,000 16 oz. bottles of Sioux Rural Water, compared to bottled water which you can only
buy 33 16 oz. bottles.
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 | The only water we will
ever have is what we have right now.
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 | Showers use 7 gallons of
water per minute. A bath requires 30-50 gallons.
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 | Once groundwater is
polluted it may remain that way for several thousand years.
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 | It can take 120 gallons
of water to produce one egg.
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 | A hot water faucet that
leaks 60 drops per minute can waste 192 gallons of water and 48 kilowatt hours of
electricity per month.
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 | Human blood is 83% water.
Human bones are 25% water.
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 | Running the tap waiting
for water to get hot or cold can waste 5 gallons per minute.
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 | 97% of the water on the
earth is saltwater; only 3% is freshwater. Most of the freshwater stored on the earth is
frozen in glaciers.
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 | Each day the sun
evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.
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 | The earths surface
is approximately 80% of water. That is about 362,000,000,000,000 (362 trillion) gallons of
water.
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 | Watermelon is 93% water.
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 | "Water" was the
first word that Helen Keller learned. "Water" was the last word spoken by
President Ulysses S. Grant.
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 | In some deserts, rain is
so uncommon that the natives do not have a word for it.
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 | Over 42,000 gallons of
water are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight
in the United States! This is enough water to fill a 30 by 50 foot swimming pool.
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 | The people in the United
States use as much as 700,000,000,000 (700 billion) gallons of water each day.
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 | Heating water is the
second largest energy user in the home.
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 | The koala bear and the
desert rat do not drink water.
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 | In one glass of water,
there are about 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (8 septillion) water molecules.
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 | In a one hundred
year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2
weeks in lakes and rivers, and
less than a week in the atmosphere.
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