Shown below are some facts about water. These facts do not originate from ADVANCED WATER TREATMENT but have been stolen from all and sundry for your information and pleasure.

Water Facts

Water is the on of the earth’s greatest assets, not only for providing us with a nutrients we need to survive and go about our daily lives, it also is the a great universal solvent dissolving almost anything. Whether the substances dissolved in it are from us human beings of from naturally occurring processes, many of these dissolved substances need to be removed.

Water Facts:

• Of all the water on earth, only a fraction of a percent is available for human use as fresh, drinkable water.
• Greeks used the power of water more than 2,000 years ago to turn wheels that ground wheat into flour.
• Industry accounts for nearly a quarter of the world’s water use. In many countries it provides 50 – 80 percent of the total demand for water.
• Nature renews the world’s fresh water supply by drawing 86 percent of the moisture in the atmosphere from the ocean, and 14 percent from the land.
• Each year, evaporation fuelled by the sun’s energy lifts 500,000 cubic kilometres of moisture into the atmosphere – and an equal amount falls back to earth.
• Water covers about 75 percent of the world’s surface. It occurs in all living organisms and dissolves almost everything to some extent.
• In 1850, the water available for each person on earth was eight times more plentiful than it is expected to be in 2050.
• A healthy human being can live for about a month without food, but will die in less than a week without fresh water.
• Unequal distribution makes water particularly precious. A third of the world’s water falls in the Caribbean and South America, while less than 1 percent occurs in Australia.