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Water facts

  • 60-75% of human body is made from water depending on your age (we dry up as we get older!)
  • To calculate how many liters are in your body, take your weight in kilograms and multiply by 0.7
  • 70% of our planet is covered in water 96.5% of which is our oceans and seas
  • Fresh water lakes make up the other 3.5% along with water trapped in glaciers and the ice caps
  • Up to 2 billion people currently suffer from water scarcity
  • The average person uses 150L of water per day in the UK and 575L in the US
  • The average person in Mozambique gets by on just 4L per day
  • It takes 90 bathtubs of fresh water to produce 1 Kg of beef and livestock production consumes 15% of all irrigation water daily
  • Both the cucumber and the lettuce contain 96% water
  • 5.8 million people in the UK have fluoride artificially added to their water supply… what’s in your water?
  • To manufacture one pint of beer takes 20 gallons of water
  • To manufacture one can of soft drink takes 22 gallons of water
  • To manufacture one pair of stone washed jeans takes 500 gallons of water
  • Water exists on Mars
  • Heavy-Water (deuterium oxide) ice-cubes do not float

Links

Viva Con Aqua

Freshwater Action Network

End Water Poverty

B’Tselem Gaza water crisis

The Justice Movement Just Water initiative

Global Justice Now

WHO drinking water factsheet

UN milestones to the human right to water and sanitation

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