Water is the source of life and without it the life could not be possible. Here are some interesting facts about the fluid that means life.
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- A man can withstand without water for five to seven days. For comparison, without meals we can live about six weeks.
- Australian coals can live without water – they intake liquid by eating leaves of eucalyptus.
- Although about 70 percent of the Earth’s territory is covered with water, only one percent of this water can be consumed!
- Researches have shown that hot water will cool down faster than cold water! But there is no precise answer to the question why it is so. It is possible that it’s due to the re-cooling, evaporation, ice formation, convection or it is due to the effect of diluted gases in warm and cold water.
- When freezing, water will experience incredible transformations. At a temperature of less than 120 degrees it becomes stretchy, and at a temperature of minus 135 it converts into so-called. glass water. ‘Glassy’ water is a solid substance in which there is no crystal structure as in glass.
- All animals and plants are consisted of water: fishes 75%, % jellyfish 99, potatoes 76%, tomatoes 90%, cucumber 95%, the body of an infant it’s consisted of about 75% , while about 60% of an adult body is consisted of water.
- Water is great for a slim line: If you avoid sweetened drinks and drink water instead, you will lose three pounds a year without any diet!
- Even 85 percent of all diseases in the world are transmitted by water.
- If you do not drink enough water, your body will take it from your skin that will getting older fast – so drink water regularly! It is recommended to drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
- Freshwater supplies on our planet are not evenly distributed – Asia has the highest, and Australia’s the less.