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• 75% of the earth is covered with water and 97% of it is ocean, which leaves only 3% which can be used as drinking water
• 70% of an adult human body is water and a human being can only live without water for approximately 1 week
• The average person in the US uses between 80-100 gallons of water a day of which toilet flushing takes up the largest amount. In the middle ages and in many other places on earth, a person uses under 5 gallons of water a day.
• Much more fresh water is stored under ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface
• 49% of US drinking water comes from ground water (Nat’l Groundwater Association)
• The EPA monitors groundwater for only approximately 90 of the 2100 toxic chemicals and contaminants in water that can cause cancer
• Pure water has a neutral PH of 7 (neither acidic or basic)
• The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 protects public drinking water supplies