By Jenna Solomon and Isabel Hidalgo Water Facts By Jenna Solomon and Isabel Hidalgo
The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day
The privatization of water distribution in Bolivia caused a war over water.
It takes 200,000,000 liters of water per second to grow food for the planet
Human blood is 83% water
The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank
At any one time, more than half of the world’s poor are ill due to inadequate sanitation, water or hygiene.
On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3 On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect water.
In a typical year in Africa, 5–10 times the number of people die from diarrhea than from war.
Water consumption in a US household is 8x that of an Indian household.
About half the worlds hospital beds are occupied by someone with a water related illness.
A five minute shower in an American household will use more water than a person living in a developing world slum will use in a whole day.
It takes up to 5000 liters of water to produce 1kg of rice.
It takes about 300 liters of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper.
Half the world’s schools do not have access to clean water, nor adequate sanitation.
As little as $1 can provide clean water for a child in the developing world for an entire year.