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Water Facts And Trivia

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

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Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet’s surface
and is recycled constantly by way of the water cycle.
The water cycle is the continuous movement of water
within the earth and atmosphere. It is a complex system
that includes many different processes. Liquid water
evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds,
and precipitates back to earth in the form of rain and snow.
Water in different phases moves through the atmosphere
(transportation). Liquid water flows across land (runoff),
into the ground (infiltration and percolation), and through
the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves into
plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the
atmosphere (transpiration). On a global basis, evaporation
approximately equals precipitation. There is more water
in the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined. If
all of the water vapor in our planet’s atmosphere fell as
water at once and spread out evenly, it would only cover
the globe with about an inch of water.
Nearly 97 percent of the world’s water is salty,
therefore undrinkable. 2.5 percent of the earth’s fresh
water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps,
atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under
the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
That leaves just .5 percent for all of humanity’s needs – its
agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and
personal needs.
Water regulates the earth’s temperature. It also regulates
the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients
and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs
and tissues, and removes wastes. The human body is
comprised of mostly water. A newborn baby, for example,
is 78 percent water and adults are 55 to 60 percent water.
The human brain is comprised of about 75 percent water.
Interestingly enough, a tree is also comprised of about 75
percent water.
Usually when solids form, atoms get closer together
MOLLY YOUNG’S PRIORITIES to form something denser. This is why most solids sink
in water. But solid water, or ice, is actually less dense. It
expands by about 9 percent, which is unusual. The water
 SAFETY molecules form rings when water freezes. All that space
Keeping our neighborhoods safe and supporting our Fire, Police, and First Responders. makes ice less dense and explains why it floats. This is
They are the reason we are the third safest city in Florida. good because ice floating on top of a body of water lets
the rest of it stay liquid. If ice sank, whole oceans could
 CONNECTION freeze solid!
Continue to enhance openness, transparency, and accessibility to the Council. As you can see, water is essential to life here on earth.
It is important to keep it clean and be mindful of what goes
 PRECIOUS RESOURCES into it. Water is part of a deeply interconnected system.
Protecting our Natural Resources and continue growing our Parks and Recreation systems. What we pour on the ground ends up in our water, and
what we spew into the sky ends up in our water. Life on
 PRESERVATION earth simply cannot exist without water. Whether or not
Maintain the small-town charm of Tequesta. it can exist on other planets without water, is a topic for
another time.
 STRONG ECONOMY Sources: www.epa.gov and www.climatekids.nasa.gov.
Ensuring financial accountability and attracting new NPDES tip: Planting a rain garden with native plants
small businesses. somewhere around your home helps lock rain water in the
ground, reducing the flow of pollutants and poisons into
 ADVOCATE the drains. Using organic fertilizers and pesticides in your
Support and collaborate with Local Businesses. garden further protects and brings health to your yard and
all the species living there.
 IMPROVING
Our roadways and pedestrian safety.

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