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What on Earth Do You Know About
Water?
 | Approximately 80 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water.
 | Only one percent of this water is fresh we can use.
 | 97 percent is saltwater
| two percent is water frozen in glaciers
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| Earth's fresh water supply is limited and threatened by pollution.
| Today, have approximately the same amount of water as when the Earth
was formed; Earth will not get any more water.
| Water moves in a never-ending cycle; nature recycles it over and
over again.
| The water you drink may have been a drink for a dinosaur.
| You use an average of 168 gallons of water a day.
| In the United States, we use approximately 25 trillion gallons of
fresh water each year.
| We are using our fresh water faster then we are recharging our
groundwater.
| In the United States, more then 50 percent of our wetlands that
recharge and purify ground water have been destroyed.
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 (Information provided
by the U. S. Dept of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service.)
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