Fun facts about water and wastewater!

In our industrial world it is important to understand how we treat and take care of our environment. Most importantly is how we use water, our most important and precious resource. 

Here are some fun facts about water and wastewater. Makes you think again about how and how much water we use! (These fun facts are re-posted from its orginial post by Tatsuya Nakagwa the VP of Marketing and co-founder of Castagra Products. http://www.castagra.com/2014/02/fun-facts-about-water-and-wastewater/)

1. A short 5-minute shower uses between 25 – 50 gallons of water. That’s a lot of water. That’s comparable to washing a load of clothes.

2. To get one inch of water from snow, you need to melt bout 10 inches of snow first.

3. It takes 10 to 15 gallons of water to wash dishes by hand, but ONLY nine to 12 gallons of water are used in a dishwater.

4. In the United States alone, about 22,500 square miles of toilet paper get used annually, which is about the same area covered by the Central Valley in California.

5. To make one gallon of milk, a cow must drink four gallons of water.

6. About 50 glasses of water are used to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice.

7. Humans can only live a few days without water, but a month without food.

8. About two-thirds of the water we use at home occurs in our bathroom.

9. Watermelons are made up of 93 percent water, tomatoes are made up of 90 percent water, and elephants are made up of 70 percent water.

10. About $10 million is spent annually on chemicals to make toilets in the United States smell better.

11. In older toilets, three gallons of clean water gets used with every flush. But in newer toilets, as little as one gallon gets flushed.

12. Raindrops fall to Earth at speeds of up to 22 miles per hour, which is almost as fast as human runners, who max out at a speed of 23.4 miles per hour.

13. Water regulates the Earth’s temperature. It also regulates the temperature of the human body.

14. It takes 11 gallons of water to produce one slice of bread.

15. About 97% of the Earth’s water is undrinkable. And another two percent is tied up in glaciers and ice caps. And the remaining one percent is left for our own needs.

If only 3% of the Earth's water is drinkable, we better find out better ways to treat, and re-use water instead of using that precious water for irrigation. 

For more information about how you can re-use and clean wastewater check out www.hycura.com.