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Water Facts And Trivia

By Katie Roundtree, Finance Director, Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District
“We forget that the water water we see today. Comets
cycle and the life cycle are mostly water/ice. It’s
are one.” – Jacques Yves possible that comets made
Cousteau regular water deliveries to
Water is such a simple earth. It would take a lot of
element, made up of one comets to fill the ocean, but
oxygen and two hydrogen comets could well have made
molecules, but so essential a big contribution.
to life. A person can live Water covers 70.9 percent
a month without food, but of the planet’s surface and
only about a week without is recycled constantly by
water. However, water is way of the water cycle. The
essential to all life, not just human life. Here are some water cycle is the continuous
interesting facts about water. movement of water within the
There are about 332,500,000 cubic miles of water on earth and atmosphere. It is a
earth. That’s about the same amount of water as there was complex system that includes
when the earth was formed! The water from your faucet many different processes.
could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank or walked Liquid water evaporates into
through! The rocky material that formed earth contained
some water. But that probably doesn’t account for all the Northern Notes on page 6

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