Seeing as I’ve done more intensive online research for blogging this week than a mole trying to tunnel through concrete, I’m taking my foot off the proverbial accelerator pedal and doing a gentle segue into a few fun water facts:

  • Human blood is 83% water.  Now I better understand Dracul and his ilk – the oke’s just dehydrated, man!
  • Over 90% of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton and those that followed were definitely onto something.
  • Since life began, we have had the same amount of water on the planet. To the best of human understanding, life can only exist with water. Now you know.
  • The water from your tap could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank. Ew.
  • More than half (63%) our daily water consumption at home originates from the bathroom and the toilet. Grey water rules!
  • Water regulates the Earth’s temperature. Mine too! I overheat badly, so I can really relate.
  • Water is the only mineral that is found naturally on Earth in three forms; liquid, gas, solid. Gas – *snigger*
  • If the entire adult population of England and Wales remembered to turn off the tap when they were brushing their teeth, we could save 180 mega litres a day – enough to supply nearly 500,000 homes and fill 180 Olympic swimming pools! (One Olympic sized pool is 1 million litres / 1Ml). More brushing, less tap on and more tap off, people!
  • Each Briton uses about 150 litres of tap water a day, but if you include the amount of water embedded within products, our water consumption increases to about 3400 litres a day.

At the rate this consumption is going on, I think I’m going to be bringing my blankie to work and draping myself around the water cooler for the foreseeable future.