- 5 Gallons of bottled water are worth about 15 cents.
- If you take delivered bottled water, you’re paying mostly for the bottle, the delivery and the company overhead.
- Bottled water isn’t necessarily pure. According to recent studies by the California State Health Department, bottled water contained as much, if not more, contaminants and foreign objects as ordinary tap water.
- You can get the same treatment systems for your home as the major bottled water companies at a fraction of their price-per-gallon.
- Treatment systems pay for themselves in as few as two years, water treatment systems will actually pay for themselves.
- Even paying top dollar doesn’t guarantee you’re getting the BEST possible solution for your home or business. We can save you hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars by designing a system THAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU.
- Every single state in American had unsafe drinking water in 2001 with one exception… Washington D.C. — which is a District, not a state.
- If you don’t filter your drinking water, your body is the filter.
- 500,000 tons of pollutants pour into lakes and rivers each day in the United States.
- Water makes up 75% of the human brain.
- Reverse Osmosis is one of the best, most cost effective ways of removing impurities from the water.
- Water treatment systems save you money because you use less soap, detergent, cleaning products, shampoos and conditioners.
- 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.
- Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.
- In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside).
- Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.
- About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four.
- To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.
- 780 million people lack access to an improved water source.
- 1/3 what the world spends on bottled water in one year could pay for projects providing water to everyone in need.
- Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.
- Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon.
- 80% of all illness in the developing world is water related.
- Up to 50% of water is lost through leaks in cities in the developing world.
- In some countries, less than half the population has access to clean water.
- The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.
- A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
- Water expands by 9% when it freezes.
- There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.
- Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.
- Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day.
- Thirty-six states are anticipating water shortages by 2016.
- 1 in 6 gallons of water leak from utility pipes before reaching customers in the US.
- Americans use 5.7 billion gallons per day from toilet flushes.
- It takes about 12 gallons per day to sustain a human (this figure takes into account all uses for water, like drinking, sanitation and food production).
- Each day, we also lose a little more than a cup of water (237 ml) when we exhale it.
- A water-efficient dishwasher uses as little as 4 gallons per cycle but hand washing dishes uses 20 gallons of water.
- The average family of four uses 180 gallons of water per day outdoors. It is estimated that over 50% is wasted from evaporation, wind, or overwatering.
- It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does tea.
- If the entire world’s water were fit into a 4 liter jug, the fresh water available for us would equal only about one tablespoon.
- Over 90% of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.
- Water regulates the Earth’s temperature.
- On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your indoor use) is lost to leaks.