Water & The human Being

• Helps digest food
• Transports body wastes
• Lubricates body joints
• Regulates body temperature

Water & Earth

• 75% of the earth’s surface is covered by water
• 97.4% of this water is in the oceans
• 1.8% of this water is ice
• 0.8% of this water is available for consumption.

Water In Our Body

• 75% of the body comprises of water
• Kidney 83%
• Brain 75%
• Lungs 40%
• Muscles 75%
• Blood 92%
• Heart 75%
• Liver 86%

Water Consumption Facts

• 20 litres per toilet flush (single flush unit)
• 50-150 litres per bath
• 40-250 litres per shower (depending on duration & nozzle flow)
• 20-50 litres per dishwasher
• 40-170 litres per washing machine load
• 5 litres per brushing of teeth with tap on
• 8 litres per day for drinking, cooking & cleaning
• 8 litres per average male shave
• 1,000 litres per hour per typical 3 outlet sprinkler
• 4 litres per hour per dripper of drip irrigation system
• 100-300 litres per car wash with running hose
• 30-150 litres per day per leaky tap

Fun facts about Water

• Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
• At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
• A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
• Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body
• Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
• Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
• Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
• Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
• The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, 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.
• The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
• Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
• 12. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.

10 Reasons to Use a Water Filter

• In order to capitalize on the health benefits of water, it is essential to draw from a clean source of water.
• Drinking impure, contaminated water is the leading cause of epidemic disease in developing countries.
• There are more than 2100 known drinking water contaminants that may be present in tap water, including several known poisons.
• Bottled water does not offer a viable alternative to tap water.
• Municipal water treatment facilities cannot always control for the outbreak of dangerous bacterial contaminants in tap water.
• The only way to ensure pure, contaminant-free drinking water is through the use of a point-of-use filtration system.
• Several types of cancer can be attributed to the presence of toxic materials in drinking water.
• Clean, healthy drinking water is essential to a child’s proper mental and physical development.
• According to the EPA, lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children each year in the United States alone.
• It is especially important for pregnant women to drink pure water as lead in drinking water can cause severe birth defects.