160 Interesting Facts About Freshwater

Facts About Freshwater: Fresh water or fresh water is a type of water that does not contain salt or has a very low salt content. Natural aquifers such as cliffs, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, snow, ice etc. are the main sources of fresh water. The water that people drink to quench their thirst is known as fresh water. Sea, The ocean water has high salinity and is not fit for drinking. However, not all sources of what humans drink are recognized as fresh water.

Because that kind of fresh water is not clean and safe. Microorganisms like harmful bacteria can lurk in the water. Drinking water can lead to serious diseases later on. The water that people drink is safe and sterile and is bottled. Fresh water refers to fresh water which is the opposite of salt water.

Interesting Facts About Freshwater

70% of the human brain is water.
30% of fresh water is in the ground.
Water expands by 9% when it freezes.
Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon.
1 apple requires 18 gallons of water.
Water regulates the Earth’s temperature.
It takes 120 gallons of water for one egg.
Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.
A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.
1 slice of bread requires 11 gallons of water.
1 pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water.
Freshwater is created by the Earth’s water cycle.
1 gallon of wine requires 1,008 gallons of water.
A 0.3 pound burger requires 660 gallons of water.
Water is the most common substance found on earth.
Water makes up about 66 percent of the human body.
500 sheets of paper requires 1,321 gallons of water.
It takes about 70 gallons of water to fill a bathtub.
1 pound of chocolate requires 3,170 gallons of water.
The main cause of water pollution is human activities.
The largest freshwater biome is the Florida Everglades.
The average pool takes 22,000 gallons of water to fill.
To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.
The biggest threat to freshwater reservoirs is pollution.

Healthy Facts About Freshwater

68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.
NASA has discovered water in the form of ice on the moon.
Only 3% of the water on Earth comes from freshwater biomes.
1.7% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.
780 million people lack access to an improved water source.
Thirty-six states are anticipating water shortages by 2016.
80% of all illness in the developing world is water related.
40 billion hours are spent collecting water in Africa alone.
300 tons of water are required to manufacture 1 ton of steel.
American use 5.7 billion gallons per day from toilet flushes.
Humans can convert seawater into freshwater using desalination.
Chicken and goat are the least water intensive meats to consume.
65% of freshwater withdrawals in China are used for agriculture.
Freshwater is naturally occurring water found on the planet Earth.
Most of the freshwater used by humans goes to agricultural sector.
In Nairobi urban poor pay 10 times more for water than in New York.
Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day.
85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.
Drinking too much water can be fatal (known as water intoxication).
There is an estimated 326 million trillion gallons of water on earth.
Ten percent of homes have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more per day.

Geographical Facts About Freshwater

The freshwater that comes out of your sink’s facet is called tap water.
Over 90% of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.
Three quarters of all Americans live within 10 miles of polluted water.
263 rivers either cross or demarcate international political boundaries.
Freshwater is defined as water with low concentrations of dissolved salts.
The Nile, the longest river in the world, is a part of a freshwater biome.
Up to 50% of water is lost through leaks in cities in the developing world.
In some countries, less than half the population has access to clean water.
99% of all freshwater is either in the form of ice or located in an aquifer.
40% of freshwater withdrawals in the United States are used for agriculture.
An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
There are over 700 different species of fish that live in a freshwater biome.
By 2025 half the world’s people will live in countries with high water stress.
Freshwater sources are home to thousands of different plant and animal species.
Freshwater is extremely important to humans and is considered a vital resource.
69.6% of all the freshwater on the planet Earth is in the form of snow and ice.
Freshwater biomes contain plenty of grass and plants but trees are very scarce.
It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does tea.
There have been 265 recorded incidences of water conflicts from 3000 BC to 2012.
Most of the freshwater on the planet Earth is in trapped in Antarctic ice sheets.
Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.

Awesome Facts About Freshwater

Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.
A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four.
1 in 6 gallons of water leak from utility pipes before reaching customers in the US.
Each day, we also lose a little more than a cup of water (237 ml) when we exhale it.
About 27 trillion gallons of groundwater are withdrawn for use in the U.S. each year.
The human body can survive weeks without feed, but only a few days without freshwater.
There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.
A swimming pool naturally loses about 1,000 gallons (3,785 liters) a month to evaporation.
Nearly one-half of the water used by Americans is used for thermoelectric power generation.
Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century.
30.1% of all the freshwater on the planet Earth is groundwater found underneath the surface.
In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside).
The pollution of freshwater sources reduces the amount of drinking water available to humans.
There is more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all of the rivers on the planet combined.
Only 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.
In just one day, 200 million work hours are consumed by women collecting water for their families.

Unknown Facts About Freshwater

Freshwater is found in rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, ice (sheets, caps and glaciers) and aquifers.
A 2.6 billion year old pocket of water was discovered in a mine, 2 miles below the earth’s surface.
On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your indoor use) is lost to leaks.
There are no scientific studies that support the recommendation to drink 8 glasses of water per day.
Water covers around 71% of the Earth’s surface, but only a small portion of that water is freshwater.
Freshwater biomes are subdivided into three groups: lakes and ponds, streams and rivers, and wetlands.
Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under some conditions (commonly known as the Mpemba effect).
A leaky faucet that drips at the rate of one drip per second can waste more than 3,000 gallons per year.
Only 2.5% of all the water on our planet is freshwater and only 0.3% of that is available on the surface.
The remaining 0.3% of freshwater on the planet Earth is found in lakes, rivers, swamps and the atmosphere.
$260 billion is the estimated annual economic loss from poor water and sanitation in developing countries.
Agriculture accounts for ~70% of global freshwater withdrawals (up to 90% in some fast-growing economies).
The length of the side of a cube which could hold the Earth’s estimated total volume of water in km = 1150.
In Washington state alone, glaciers provide 1.8 trillion liters (470 billion gallons) of water each summer.
Many animals besides fish live in freshwater biomes. This includes crocodiles, hippopotamus, turtles, and frogs.
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Because of the variety of animals living in the freshwater biome, there are a lot of predator-prey relationships.
1/3 what the world spends on bottled water in one year could pay for projects providing water to everyone in need.

Mind-Blowing Facts About Freshwater

Two-thirds of the world’s population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations.
Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.
A water-efficient dishwasher uses as little as 4 gallons per cycle but hand washing dishes uses 20 gallons of water.
Flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco, about 700 miles round-trip, could cost you more than 9,000 gallons of water.
Freshwater biomes are very important to our survival because they supply people with more than half of their drinking water.
If the entire world’s water were fit into a 4 liter jug, the fresh water available for us would equal only about one tablespoon.
By 2025, water withdrawals are predicted to increase by 50 percent in developing countries and 18 percent in developed countries.18
The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.
At any given moment, groundwater is 20 to 30 times greater than the amount in all the lakes, streams, and rivers of the United States.
Refilling a half-liter water bottle 1,740 times with tap water is the equivalent cost of a 99 cent water bottle at a convenience store.
If everyone in the US used just one less gallon of water per shower every day, we could save some 85 billion gallons of water per year.
Smaller bodies of water such as ditches and puddles are also considered freshwater biomes because they help some form of life to survive.
The water in a freshwater biome contains less than 1% of salt water. Any body of water that contains little to no salt is considered freshwater.
If all of the water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere fell at once, distributed evenly, it would only cover the earth with about an inch of water.
Freshwater withdrawals for agriculture exceed 90% in many countries: Cambodia 94%, Pakistan 94%, Vietnam 95%, Madagascar 97%, Iran 92%, Ecuador 92%.
The freezing point of water lowers as the amount of salt dissolved in at increases. With average levels of salt, seawater freezes at -2 °C (28.4 °F).
The average family of four uses 180 gallons of water per day outdoors. It is estimated that over 50% is wasted from evaporation, wind, or overwatering.
It takes about 12 gallons per day to sustain a human (this figure takes into account all uses for water, like drinking, sanitation and food production).
Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30×50 foot swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight.
Household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons annually nationwide. That’s equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million homes.
If everyone in the US flushed the toilet just one less time per day, we could save a lake full of water about one mile long, one mile wide and four feet deep.
In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
It takes seven and a half years for the average American residence to use the same amount of water that flows over the Niagara Falls in one second (750,000 gallons).
The water cycle creates freshwater by evaporating water from the oceans (seawater), which then later falls back to Earth’s surface as precipitation, like rain or snow.
The United States draws more than 40 billion gallons (151 million liters) of water from the Great Lakes every day—half of which is used for electrical power production.
Each cubic foot of Martian soil contains around two pints of liquid water, though the molecules are not freely accessible, but rather bound to other minerals in the soil.
There are four key features that determine the ecology of streams and rivers - the flow of the water, amount of light, the temperature or climate, and the chemistry of the river.
Every freshwater biome is unique because they all contain a range of animal and plant species, different climates, and various amounts of water. No two freshwater biomes are exactly the same.
Various estimates indicate that, based on business as usual, ~3.5 planets Earth would be needed to sustain a global population achieving the current lifestyle of the average European or North American.
Of the estimated 1.4 billion hectares of crop land worldwide, around 80 percent is rainfed and accounts for about 60 percent of global agricultural output (the other 40% of output is from irrigated crop land).
There are many insects living in the freshwater biome that some might consider being pests including mosquitos and flies. These insects are very important in that they are a food source to many mammals, birds, and amphibians.
Ground water occurs almost everywhere beneath the land surface. The widespread occurrence of potable ground water is the reason that it is used as a source of water supply by about one-half the population of the United States.
Hydrologists estimate, according to the National Geographic Society, U.S. groundwater reserves to be at least 33,000 trillion gallons — equal to the amount discharged into the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River in the past 200 years.
Producing a gallon (3.79 liters) of corn ethanol consumes 170 gallons (644 liters) of water in total, from irrigation to final processing. On the other hand, the water required to make a gallon of regular gasoline is just five gallons (19 liters).

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