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Approximately 2/3 of a person's body
weight is water. Blood is 92% water. The brain is 75% water.
Muscles are 75% water. Bones are 22% water
Source: International Bottled
Water Association
All living things are comprised mostly
of water:
Earthworms = 80% water
Elephants = 70% water
People = 65% water
Mice = 65% water
Source: World Book Encyclopedia
An elephant can drink up to 53 gallons
of water in one trunk fill-up. This is more than an average
person drinks in a month.
Source: Kratt's Creatures PBS
TV show
An average person takes in approximately
two and one-half quarts (2.4 liters) of water per day. This
translates into 16,000 gallons (60,600 liters) of water during
his/her life.
Source: World Book Encyclopedia
Kangaroo rats never drink water, and
their diet consists of dry seeds and other foods that contain
little water. Their bodies produce water when food inside
them combines with the oxygen they breathe.
Source: The New Book of Knowledge
A camel can go an entire winter without
drinking any water. When a camel needs water but none is available,
its body begins to burn the fat in its hump, producing water.
Source: The New Book of Knowledge
Bald eagles can actually swim. They
use an overhand movement of the wings that is very much like
the butterfly stroke.
Source: Endangered Animals Club
Water boatmen, belonging to the family
Corixidae, are the only water bug that can take flight directly
from the water.
Source: Compton's Encyclopedia
The fastest swimming fish are sailfish
and swordfish, which have been recorded at speeds of 60 mph.
Source: Questions About the Oceans,
by Dubach
Roots of the alfalfa plant often go
down 25 feet or more in search of water.
Source: Junior Science Book of
Water
Industrial uses of water:
It takes about 80 gallons of water to make the paper for one
Sunday paper.
It takes about 20 gallons of water per pound of steel produced.
It takes about 15 gallons of water to brew a gallon of beer.
Source: World Book Encyclopedia
The world's highest waterfall is the
Angel Fall waterfall in Venezuela -- 2,648 feet (807 meters).
Source: World Book Encyclopedia
The saltiest ocean is the Atlantic,
with a salinity of 37.5 parts per thousand in the northern
subtropical region. The Arctic and Antarctic oceans are the
least salty.
Source: Questions About the Oceans,
by Dubach
Some parts of India get as much as
400 inches of rain during the rainy season.
Source: Junior Science Book of
Water
The longest undisputed bottle drift
on record is a bottle that traveled an estimated 16,000 statute
miles from Perth, Australia to Miami, Florida over a period
of nearly 5 years.
Source: Questions About the Oceans,
by Dubach
An estimated 150 million dollars worth
of treasure from Spanish ships that sank while crossing from
the Caribbean to Spain has never been salvaged.
Source: Questions About the Oceans,
by Dubach
The only organized team game for swimmers
is water polo, which was started in England in 1870.
Source: The New Book of Knowledge
Ralph W. Samuelson started the sport
of waterskiing in Lake City, MN, in 1922 using skis he'd made
from two long pine boards.
Source: The New Book of Knowledge
Who said, "When the well's dry,
we know the worth of the water?"
Benjamin Franklin
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