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15 Facts About Water 
1. the average American uses at least 80 gallons of water per day.
2. .75% of the earth's surface is made up of water.
3. .97% of the earth's water is in the oceans, 2% is frozen in glaciers, while only 1% is considered drinkable. That 1% of drinkable water supplies all the humans in the world.
4. .75% of earth's available fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps.
5. Humans can live without food for over a month, but a person can not live for more than a week without water.
6. An average dishwasher uses about 25 gallons of water per cycle.
7. An average washing machine uses about 30 gallons of water for every load of laundry.
8. It takes 2 gallons for the average American to brush their teeth, 5 gallons to flush a toilet, and between 25 and 50 gallons to take a shower.
9. If everyone in the United States flushed the toilet just one less time per day, we could save enough water to fill a mile long lake full of water.
10. On average, it takes about a gallon of water to process a quarter pound of ground beef.
11. On average, it takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.
12. The farming industry is a major source of water pollution, specifically from fertilizer and agricultural run-off.
13. Hippocrates, also known as the Greek father of medicine, was the first person to recognize the importance of purifying water when he told people in Greece to boil and strain water before drinking it.
14. The first American water plant with filters was built in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1872.
15. The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 was the first time in the United States that public drinking water supplies were protected on a federal level. | 
