Residential Water Usage Facts
- The average toilet uses 19 to 26 litres of water per flush.
- A shower can use 19 litres of water per minute.
- 38 litres of water are needed to refine 1 litre of petrol.
- An egg is about 74 percent water.
- A watermelon is about 92 percent water.
- The water we use today is the same water the dinosaurs used.
- The Earth's oceans cover about 140,500,000 square miles and contain almost 330,000,000 cubic miles of water.
- Fresh, incompact snow is usually 90-95 percent trapped air.
- Humans require about 2.5 litres of water a day.
- More than 1.5 billion people do not have access to a safe and adequate water supply.
- 80% of the surface of the earth is water but only 3% is fresh water.
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