Water is an amazing thing. It is needed by basically every single organism, there is more water on Earth than land and if you are looking for extra terrestrial life on other planets the first thing you should look for is, yep you guessed it, water!
http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html lists some interesting facts about water. One of them is that 70% of an adult's body is made of water and 80% of a newborn is water ( we're like un-popped water balloons!) By the time a person is thirsty they would have already lost over 1% in water weight (good news for wrestlers eh?) Another fact from the site is that an average person in the US uses around 80-100 gallons of water per day and most of that comes from flushing the toilet. So if you want to save some of your water stop using the restroom so much!
With all of this water around its kind of surprising to know that one in eight people lack access to safe water (http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/). Sounds pretty bad when you figure that a five-minute shower would amount to the total water other people have in a day.
I think we could solve this crisis pretty easily if we could only figure out a way to make the water. So far chemists haven't succeeded in that feat though. Apparently it is a lot harder than just making a chemical solution, or gathering up a bunch of Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms and sticking them in the same container.
Living in the United States is a lot different than living in a third-world country that has trouble finding clean water. I guess for sanitation purposes people could make filters and boil the water but they still have to find water and make a filter with supplies that they probably don't have. If I can, I would like to go on a mission trip somewhere to help people get clean water. It might help me understand how they live and what they would have to do to get clean and sanitary water.
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