I have decided to a few shorts on water and its meaning in our lives. We all know water is important and we all take it for granted that when you turn the tap, water will come out. Personally I am willing to walk quite far to fetch water to drink, but the flushing toilet is the most wonderfull and irreplacable item in my house.
So here are a few interesting facts about water:
• A human being can live for more than a month without consuming food, but cannot survive for more than one week without drinking water.
• Washing a load of laundry uses approximately 150 litres.
• Filling an average size swimming pool uses up to 60 000 litres.
• Growing a pound of cotton consumes 8 300 litres.
• Producing a pound of copper uses 167 litres.
• It takes approximately 4 litres of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
• Washing a load of laundry uses approximately 150 litres.
• Filling an average size swimming pool uses up to 60 000 litres.
• Growing a pound of cotton consumes 8 300 litres.
• Producing a pound of copper uses 167 litres.
• It takes approximately 4 litres of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
• Small, continuous leaks from taps and faucets will waste large amounts of water - 30 drips per minute means a loss of 200 litres per month.
• Aside from problems such as global warming and climate change, there are strong arguments that water shortages are likely to be the 21st century's most burning environmental issue - linked as it must be with the problem of overpopulation.
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