City of Le Sueur - Water Facts

Did You Know?

• Water is the most common substance found on earth.
• The only water we will ever have is what we have right now.
• In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months
as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
• Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion) tons of water.
• Water is the only substance on earth naturally found in the three true element forms: Solid, liquid, and gas.
• 80% of the earth's surface is water.
• 97% of the earth's water is the oceans and seas.
• 66% of your body is water.
• Bones are 25% water.
• Human blood is 83% water.
• A person can survive without food for more than 30 days, but less than a week without water.
• A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
• For every 2.31 feet that water is raised above the earth's surface it can create one pound per square inch of pressure.
• For every 2.31 feet you are submerged below a body of water's surface there is
one pound per square inch of pressure equally placed on your body.
• The first water pipes made in the U.S. were fire-charred, bored-out logs.
• There are over one million miles of water pipelines and aqueducts in the United States and Canada - enough to circle the globe 40 times.
• There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the U.S.
• Community water systems process over 35 billion gallons of water daily.
• The average household uses 107,000 gallons of water per year.
• It takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.
• It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process one barrel of beer.
• It takes 120 gallons of water to produce one egg.
• Over 42,000 gallons of water (enough to fill a 30 x 50 foot swimming pool) are needed to grow and prepare the food for a typical Thanksgiving dinner for eight.
• A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
• An acre of corn will give off 4,000 gallons of water per day in evaporation.

Contacts

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Gopher State One Call:   (800)252-1166 or           (651)454-0002.                  For more information call      or visit their website at www.gopherstateonecall.org

Brian Skok, Director
(507)665-9941, extension 1
bskok@cityoflesueur.com
Hours: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm