- To create one pint of beer it takes 303 liters of water
- 95 percent of cucumber's weight is water
- 70 percent of the human brain is water. The average human body is made of up to 65 percent of Newborn babies have, even more, ringing in at 78 percent water.
- 80 percent of all illness in the developing world is water-related.
- A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
- 300 tons of water is required to manufacture 1 ton of steel.
- Each day, we also lose a little more than a cup of water (237 ml) when we exhale it.
- A water-efficient dishwasher uses as little as 15 liters per cycle but hand washing dishes use 76 liters of water.
- It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does tea.
- If the entire world’s water were fit into a 4-liter jug, the freshwater available for us would equal only about one tablespoon.
- Do you usually take a shower or bath? A bath uses up to 265 liters of water; a five-minute shower uses 38 to 95
- There is more water in the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined.
- Household leaks can waste more than 3 785 411 784 000 (almost $ trillion liters) liters of water annually in the U.S. That’s equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million
- At one drip per second, a faucet can leak 11 356 liters in a year
- 1 gallon of 8 liters of wine requires 3815 liters of water.
- An average size burger requires 2500 liters of water.
- 1 slice of bread requires 42 liters of water.
- 1 apple requires 68 liters of water.
- A kilo of chocolate requires 12,000 liters of water.
- 1 sheet of paper requires 10 liters of water.
- It takes 3500 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of rice.
- It takes almost 10,000 liters of water to make a pair of jeans.
- It takes 147,972 liters of water to manufacture a new car.
(Sources: https://www.seametrics.com/blog/water-facts/, UN World Water Day; EPA Water Sense; EPA Water.)