Some Interesting Facts About Water

1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
2. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 glasses) of water per day.
4. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
5. Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
6. Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
7. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
8. Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
9. Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
10. The earth is a closed system meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.
11. The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
12. Of all the water on the earth, humans can use only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
13. The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.

(A public service message by Culligan Pakistan.)

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