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It Takes Guts to Fight Obesity

Tijera Wright

More Interesting Facts on Water-Can you believe this?

  • One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds; one cubic foot contains 7.84 gallons of water.
  • People need about 2.5 quarts of water a day to maintain good health. A person can live without water for approximately one week, depending upon the conditions.
  • While usage varies from community to community and person to person, on average, Americans use 183 gallons of water a day for cooking, washing, flushing, and watering purposes. The average family turns on the tap between 70 and 100 times daily.
  • About 74% of home water usage is in the bathroom, about 21% is for laundry and cleaning, and about 5% is in the kitchen.
  • A clothes washer uses about 50 gallons of water (the permanent press cycle uses an additional 15 gallons).
  • It takes 12 to 20 gallons of water to run an automatic dishwasher for one cycle.
  • About 2 gallons of water go down the drain when the kitchen faucet is run until the water's cold.
  • About 2 gallons of water are used to brush our teeth.

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Belinda Comment by Belinda on March 15, 2010 at 1:44pm
This is such a great blog! I didn't know 90 percent of the facts that are on this page!

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