Water Facts and Conservation Tips:

Did You Know?

  There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.

  Nearly 97 percent of the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another

2 percent is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves 1 percent for ALL our needs!

  Water regulates the Earth’s temperature. It also regulates the temperature of the human body.
  Lawns use at least 50% of all water consumed outside a home.

The average total home water use for each person in the U.S. is about 50 gallons a day.
  More water (~75%) is used in the bathroom than any other place in the home.
  A dripping faucet can waste up to 2,000 gallons of water a year.

  If U.S. citizens averaged ONLY four or five toilet flushes a day, it would amount to more than 5 billion gallons of water down the drain (that’s enough to supply drinking water to the entire population of Chicago for more than 6 years).

For the price of a 12 ounce can of soda (about 50 cents)—many communities deliver up to 1,000 gallons of fresh, clean drinking water to homes 24 hours a day. If drinking water and soda pop were equally costly, your water bill would skyrocket more than 10,000%.

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