- The human brain is 80% water
- The odds are 1 out of 230,000,000 (.000000435%) that you're allergic to water
- An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime
- The human body is comprised of 80% water
- The daily heat output of the human body is enough to boil eight gallons of freezing water
- About 30% of Canadians rely on getting their water from the ground for their domestic use
- During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a simple glass of water
- In Australia, the average person uses 876 gallons of water daily
- In Switzerland the average person uses only 77 gallons of water per person daily
- Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water
- Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water
- In 1832 the Scottish surgeon Neil Arnott devised water beds as a way of improving patients' comfort