Did you know?

 

 
• People have lived for nearly two months without food, but would die in less than a week without water.
• More than one-fifth of the people in the world do not have enough water for their everyday needs.
• Every year 15 million children under the age of five die because they do not have clean water.
• Flushing the toilet uses 9 litres of water each time, washing a car uses 100 litres, watering the garden with a hosepipe uses 15 litres a minute.
• Taking a bath uses about 105 litres of water; taking a shower uses about 21 litres.
• A tomato is 95 per cent water, a potato 80 per cent, a chicken 74 per cent and a loaf of bread 35 per cent.