Water Hour
Slowly ponder these facts about water.
How do you as an individual or community or town or country figure into these statistics?
If you have abundant water in your life - how do you show your gratitude?
You have a chance to on June 11th at 8pm local time.
That will be WATER HOUR when it's about falling in love with water…all over again.
Learn more at www.waterhour.org
How do you as an individual or community or town or country figure into these statistics?
If you have abundant water in your life - how do you show your gratitude?
You have a chance to on June 11th at 8pm local time.
That will be WATER HOUR when it's about falling in love with water…all over again.
Learn more at www.waterhour.org
Now, the facts-
It takes 39,000 gallons of water to manufacture one new car.
In the US, 40% of all rivers, lakes and streams are too dangerous for swimming, fishing or drinking because of toxic runoff
Your body is 66% water.
The Earth is a closed system, which means that the same water that we use today has been here for more than 2 billion years.
In developing countries, 90% of sewage and 70% of industrial wastes are discharged directly into water courses without treatment.
Each day 10,000 kids younger than 5 die from water-related diseases.
In Canada, ninety three First Nation communities were under “Boil Water” orders in 2008.
One drop of oil can pollute 25 litres of water.
It takes 150 gallons of water to produce one loaf of bread.
80% of China’s rivers are too polluted to support aquatic life.
The world’s largest garbage dump is floating in the Pacific Ocean – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 90 feet deep with accumulated plastic trash, spanning twice the size of Texas!
If the world’s water fit into a one gallon bucket, the amount of fresh water available to us all would equal only one tablespoon.
Worldwide, we withdraw 1000 trillion gallons of water from lakes, rivers and aquifers each year.
One fifth of the world’s freshwater fish are endangered or extinct.
One billion people do not have safe water to drink.
In Africa or Asia, many women walk an average of 6 km to fetch water.
Half the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people ill from water-borne illnesses.
50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost since 1900.
Floods and droughts affect one in three people worldwide.
Five big food and beverage companies consume 575 billion litres of water a year - enough to supply every person on the planet with their daily water needs.
We use 23,000 different chemicals in our daily lives and in industrial processes.
There are hundreds of “dead zones” in the oceans where no life can exist, thanks to pollution from fertilizers and sewage.
Life on land depends on the oxygen generated by life in the global ocean.
Now some images of what water should always look like -
Posted by Key Life Journey's Blog at 6/1/2010 11:00 PM 
Categories: opinions and thoughts, Water Hour
Tags: Water Hour
Categories: opinions and thoughts, Water Hour
Tags: Water Hour
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