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There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank.
Water is composed of two elements, Hydrogen and Oxygen. 2 Hydrogen + 1 Oxygen = H2O.
Nearly 97% of the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for all of humanity’s needs — all its agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and personal needs.
Water regulates the Earth’s temperature. It also regulates the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes wastes.
75% of the human brain is water and 75% of a living tree is water.
A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
Water is part of a deeply interconnected system. What we pour on the ground ends up in our water, and what we spew into the sky ends up in our water.
The average total home water use for each person in the U.S. is about 50 gallons a day.
The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.
Water expands by 9% when it freezes. Frozen water (ice) is lighter than water, which is why ice floats in water.

Around the world 59 million children of primary school age are being denied an education, and almost 65 million adolescents are without access to a secondary school.
Conflict and natural disasters have disrupted the education of 75 million children.
In one of three countries, less than three quarters of teachers are trained to national standards, resulting in 130 million children enrolled in school who are not even learning the basics.
A child whose mother can read is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5.
Nearly 15 million girls of primary school age will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school, compared to about 10 million boys.
It would take $39 billion (USD) every year to send all adolescents to school.
In 2012, there were 168 million child labor workers aged 5 to 17. This is one reason many children cannot attend school.
Over 40 years, equitable access to quality education can help a country raise its gross domestic product per capita by 23 percent.
If all women had a primary education, there would be 1.7 million fewer malnourished children.