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Water Facts And Trivia

By Katie Roundtree, Finance Director, Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District

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

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