Did You Know?

  • A leak the size of a 1/16" stream can waste nearly 74,000 gallons of water, and a leak the size of a ¼" stream can waste nearly 1,181,500 gallons of water in one quarter.
  • Only 1% of the world's water supply is available to meet all of humanity's needs. 97% is salt water and 2% is ice.
  • Every glass of water served in a restaurant requires another two glasses of water to wash and rinse the glass.
  • For the price of a 16 ounce bottle of soda, 75 cents, nearly 200 gallons of treated water are delivered to your home.
  • If everyone in the United States flushed the toilet just one less time per day, we could save enough water to fill a lake approximately one mile long, a mile wide and four feet deep every day.
  • About two thirds of the human body is water.
  • Each person uses about 100 gallons of water per day at home.
  • It takes more than 39,000 gallons of water to manufacture a car.
  • The five Great Lakes account for about 20% of the world's available fresh water supply.
  • Approximately one million miles of pipelines and aquaducts carry water in the United States and Canada. That's enough to circle the earth 40 times.