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Water Facts And Trivia good because ice floating on top of a body of water lets
the rest of it stay liquid. If ice sank, whole oceans could
By Katie Roundtree, freeze solid!
Finance Director, As you can see, water is essential to life here on earth.
Northern Palm Beach It is important to keep it clean and be mindful of what goes
County Improvement into it. Water is part of a deeply interconnected system.
District What we pour on the ground ends up in our water, and
“We forget that the what we spew into the sky ends up in our water. Life on
water cycle and the life earth simply cannot exist without water. Whether or not
cycle are one.” – Jacques it can exist on other planets without water, is a topic for
Yves Cousteau another time.
Water is such a simple Sources: www.epa.gov and www.climatekids.nasa.gov.
element, made up of one NPDES tip: Planting a rain garden with native plants
oxygen and two hydrogen somewhere around your home helps lock rain water in
molecules, but so essential approximately equals precipitation. There is more water the ground, reducing the flow of pollutants and poisons
to life. A person can live a month without food, but only in the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined. If into the drains. Using organic fertilizers and pesticides
about a week without water. However, water is essential all of the water vapor in our planet’s atmosphere fell as in your garden further protects and brings health to your
to all life, not just human life. Here are some interesting water at once and spread out evenly, it would only cover yard and all the species living there.
facts about water. the globe with about an inch of water.
There are about 332,500,000 cubic miles of water on Nearly 97 percent of the world’s water is salty,
earth. That’s about the same amount of water as there was water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, 2021 AAUW
therefore undrinkable. 2.5 percent of the earth’s fresh
when the earth was formed! The water from your faucet
could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank or walked atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under
through! The rocky material that formed earth contained That leaves just .5 percent for all of humanity’s needs – Northern Palm
the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
some water. But that probably doesn’t account for all the
water we see today. Comets are mostly water/ice. It’s its agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community,
possible that comets made regular water deliveries to Water regulates the earth’s temperature. It also Beach County
and personal needs.
earth. It would take a lot of comets to fill the ocean, but
comets could well have made a big contribution. regulates the temperature of the human body, carries
Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet’s surface organs and tissues, and removes wastes. The human Branch College
nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects
and is recycled constantly by way of the water cycle.
The water cycle is the continuous movement of water body is comprised of mostly water. A newborn baby,
within the earth and atmosphere. It is a complex system percent water. The human brain is comprised of about Scholarship
for example, is 78 percent water and adults are 55 to 60
that includes many different processes. Liquid water
evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds, 75 percent water. Interestingly enough, a tree is also
and precipitates back to earth in the form of rain and snow. comprised of about 75 percent water. Doris Karlik Local
Water in different phases moves through the atmosphere Usually when solids form, atoms get closer together
(transportation). Liquid water flows across land (runoff), to form something denser. This is why most solids sink Scholarships
into the ground (infiltration and percolation), and through in water. But solid water, or ice, is actually less dense. It
the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves into expands by about 9 percent, which is unusual. The water
plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the molecules form rings when water freezes. All that space For Women Residents Of Palm Beach
atmosphere (transpiration). On a global basis, evaporation makes ice less dense and explains why it floats. This is County $500-$1,000

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