Fun Fact
Fun Fact About Fresh Water

1. Our body is made of approx 50-65% water, new-borns have almost 78%
2. A person can survive a month without food, but a week without water
3. Approx 748 M people do not have access to any improved or purified source of drinking water
4. Globally, unsafe water kills more people each year than all forms of violence and war
5. 80% of all the illness in third counties is water related
6. 200 people die every hour from unsafe water related diseases
7. Same amount of water on earth as a few billion years ago
8. Only 2.5% of the water available on earth is fresh water
9. 68% of all fresh water is trapped in glaciers
10. 924 gallons of water is used to produce 2.2lbs of rice
1 1. 660 gallons of water is used t produce one hamburger
12. 1981 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans
13. 2.6 gallons of water to produce a single A4 sheet of paper
14. 80% of the world’s waste water is dumped, largely untreated back into the environment
15. Bottled water does not undergo disinfection process to kill microbes like tap water does
16. Plastic water bottles take 450 years to decompose
17. Estimated 25% of bottled water is filtered tap water
18. Microplastics were found in almost all bottled water
19. 93% of the bottled water tested have an average of 325 particles per 1 liter of water