{"id":337,"date":"2009-12-19T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=337"},"modified":"2009-12-19T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T08:10:23","slug":"20-interesting-and-useful-water-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"20 Interesting and Useful Water Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342 colorbox-337\" title=\"waterfacts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/waterfacts.jpg\" alt=\"waterfacts\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roughly 70 percent of an      adult\u2019s body is made up of water.<\/li>\n<li>At birth, water accounts for      approximately 80 percent of an infant\u2019s body weight.<\/li>\n<li>A healthy person can drink      about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.<\/li>\n<li>Drinking too much water too      quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when      water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance      of water in the brain.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Water intoxication is most      likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.<\/li>\n<li>While the daily recommended      amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be      consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some      water to the body.<\/li>\n<li>Soft drinks, coffee, and tea,      while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine      can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary      locations in the body.<\/li>\n<li>Pure water (solely hydrogen and      oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.<\/li>\n<li>Water dissolves more substances      than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals,      minerals, and nutrients with it.<\/li>\n<li>Somewhere between 70 and 75      percent of the earth\u2019s surface is covered with water.<\/li>\n<li>Much more fresh water is stored      under the ground in aquifers than on the earth\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>The earth is a closed system,      similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra      matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is      still present today.<\/li>\n<li>The total amount of water on      the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.<\/li>\n<li>Of all the water on the earth,      humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such      usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater      lakes.<\/li>\n<li>The United States uses about      346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.<\/li>\n<li>The United States uses nearly 80      percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.<\/li>\n<li>The average person in the United States      uses anywhere from 80-100       gallons of water per day. Flushing      the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 85 percent of U.S.      residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining      15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.<\/li>\n<li>By the time a person feels      thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water      amount.<\/li>\n<li>The weight a person loses      directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">By Random Facts <a href=\"http:\/\/facts.randomhistory.com\/\">http:\/\/facts.randomhistory.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 70 percent of an adult\u2019s body is made up of water. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant\u2019s body weight. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}