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Water Facts and Figures
Water in Numbers
Total volume of water on Earth
Of which the volume that is seawater
Frozen in polar ice caps
Atmospheric moisture
In the bodies of living things
344 million cubic miles
315 million cubic miles
7 million cubic miles
4,000 cubic miles
3400 cubic miles
Water in the Body
About 66% of your body is water
The average adult body contains 37 litres of water
Blood is 83% water
The brain is 75% water
Bones are 25% water
Water and Health
You need to drink about 2 litres of water every day
Humans consume about 75,000 litres of water in a lifetime
A person could live for a month without food but only a week without water
A quarter of the world’s population does not have safe drinking water
Water can cause serious health damage when it is contaminated by bacteria and other
micro-organisms
Water in Use
It takes 27,000 litres of water to grow a day’s food for a family of four
It takes 5,680 litres of water to process one barrel of beer
To manufacture a new car takes 148,000 litres of water
Americans use five times the amount of water that Europeans use
A five-minute shower can use 95 litres of water