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Do you know the following facts about water?

1. Water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms, solid, liquid, and gas.
   
2. It takes approximately one gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
   
3. 39,090 gallons is used to manufacture a new car, including tires, per car!
   
4. 2,0272 gallons of water is used to make four new tires.
   
5. A person can live more than a month without food, but can only last approximately one week without water, depending on conditions.
   
6. A birch tree gives off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation.
   
7. The first water pipes in the U.S. were made from charred bored logs.
   
8. Two to seven gallons of water is used to flush a toilet.
   
9. Twenty gallons of water, on the average, is used to hand wash dishes.
   
10. The average resident uses 107,000 gallons of water per year.
    
11. An individual uses 123 gallons of water daily.
    
12. One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
    
13. It would take 219 million gallons of water to cover one square mile with one foot of water.
    
14. There are 7.48 gallons of water in a cubic foot.
    
15. It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process one barrel of beer.
    
16. It takes 24 gallons of water to make a pound of plastic.
    
17. It takes 9.3 gallons of water to process one can of fruit or vegetables.
    
18. It takes 101 gallons of water to make one pound of cotton or wool.
    
19. It takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.
    
20. It takes 62,600 gallons of water to produce one ton of steel.
    
21. It takes 28,100 gallons of water to process one ton of cane sugar to make processed sugar.

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