DID YOU KNOW ?

Water covers two-thirds of the earth’s surface.

Current/The Journal of Marine Education

Nearly a million cloud droplets make up one raindrop.

A Drop of Water

A water drop is not shaped like a teardrop. It looks more like a hamburger bun.

Alistair B. Fraser, Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University

An average milk cow drinks 35 gallons of water per day.

National Dairy Council

Almost half of the world’s people lack access to safe drinking water.

www.villagevoice.com/issues/0235/harkavy.php pg. 1, 8.27.02

When combined, hydrogen, an explosive gas, and oxygen, a combustible gas, create H2O, a liquid, which extinguishes fires.

Natural History Magazine, July-August 2002, Volume 111, Number 6

Once evaporated, a water molecule spends ten days in the air.

United States Environmental Protection Agency-Office of Water

All the water that will ever be is, right now.

National Geographic, October 1993

 

Quotes from Hydro's Adventure Through the Water Cycle ©2004