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 Tech Talk
Water Facts:
The average person in the United States uses 80 to 100 gallons of water each day. During medieval times a person used only 5 gallons per day.
75 % of the earth is covered with water.
97 % of earth’s water is in the oceans. Only 3% of the earth’s water can be used as drinking water. 75% of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps.
It takes 2 gallons to brush your teeth, 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet, and 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower.
It takes about 1 gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
It takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.
In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois were the first water supplies to be chlorinated in the United States.
(New Jersey American Water Works Association)
—from the NJAWWA
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