Water FactsBy Jenna Solomon and Isabel Hidalgo

The United States uses about

346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day

The privatization of water distribution in Bolivia

caused a war over water.

It takes 200,000,000 liters of water per second to grow food for

the planet

Human blood is

83% water

The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank

At any one time,

more than half of the world’s poor are ill due to inadequate sanitation, water or hygiene.

On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect

water.

In a typical year in Africa,

5–10 times the number

of people die from diarrhea

than from war.

Water consumption in a US household is 8x that

of an Indian

household.

About half the worlds

hospital beds are

occupied by someone

with a water related illness.

A five minute shower in an

American household will

use more water than a person

living in a developing

world slum will use in a whole

day.

It takes up to 5000 liters of water to

produce 1kg of rice.

It takes about 300 liters of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper.

Half the world’s

schools do not have access to

clean water, nor adequate

sanitation.

As little as $1 can provide clean water for a child in the developing

world for an entire year.