Did you know?
- Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day.
- On average, a person uses about 100 gallons of water a day, but only drinks about a half gallon per day.
- Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.
- Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
- Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers.
- That leaves just 1% for all of human use - agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and individual
- A person can live for about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
- 70% of your skin is water.
- A tomato is 95% water.
- Running the water while brushing your teeth wastes up to 4 gallons a minute.
- The BATHROOM is the room in the house where most water is used. (The toilet is the number one water-using appliance in the home).
- 1.5 to 7 gallons of water are used to flush a toilet.
- A five minute shower takes 10 to 25 gallons of water.
- An automatic dishwasher uses 9 to 12 gallons of water to wash one load.
