The population of the Earth is not yet very concerned about the quantity and quality of water in their lives. For those who are fortunate enough to be born and live in areas with abundant water resources, water is not regarded as a great value. However, scientists from all countries have long been concerned about the quantitative and qualitative state of this most important resource for human civilization. With each new study, they discover amazing facts ...
Water in numbers
- On the this moment according to scientists' calculations, about 70% of the Earth's surface is occupied by water. But of all this, only 1% is fit for human consumption. World reserves fresh water make up only 3% of the global volume, and only 1.5% can be considered available for production.
- Most of all water (46%) is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean contains 30% of all world reserves, the Indian Ocean - 20.2%, and the Arctic - 3.8%.
- The crystallization temperature of sea water into ice is 1.91 degrees Celsius.
- One glass of water contains up to 8 septillion H2O molecules.
- There are more than 1200 natural varieties of water on Earth, which are classified according to their properties, composition and origin.
Amazing facts about man and water
- The human body needs about 1.5-2 liters of regular water per day. Water helps to stabilize catabolic processes, which contributes to weight loss. Ordinary drinking liquid dulls the feeling of hunger, helps to remove toxins from the body.
- People who drink water regularly are less prone to heart attacks.
- Water is vital to humans. Without food, a person will live 30-40 days, and without water, only 5-6 days.
- The body of an adult is 75% water, a child - 85%, and a baby - 95%.
- During his life, a person consumes an average of 35-40 tons of water.
- Fun fact: 34 liters of water can be brought to a boil with energy human body in 24 hours.
Varieties of water
A unique feature of water is that it can be on the planet in various states:
- Scientists have identified fourteen states of solid and five liquid water.
- Hot water takes longer to freeze than cold water to ice.
- The density of ice is higher than the density of water. Therefore, ice floes are kept on the surface of seas, rivers and oceans.
- The largest ice reserves are concentrated in the polar caps of the Earth's poles.
- Watermelon is 93%, and jellyfish is 99% water.
- The average temperature of the world's oceans is 4 degrees higher than the layer of air closest to the water surface.
- Water can burn if it contains a large amount of methane.
- In South Africa, you can drink natural water from the tap, which does not need to be purified. Finland ranks first in terms of the purity of this resource.
- The Antarctic lake is 12 times saltier than the sea, so it freezes only in 50-degree frost.
- World Water Day is celebrated on March 22nd.
In order to preserve water resources on Earth for a long time, one should take good care of them and teach children to this attitude. As you know, a child at any age must be interested in new knowledge. The best way Is to tell children interesting stories and facts about water. All children respond best to facts that begin with the words "the most, the most" —this arouses interest, and therefore increases the memorization of information.
Here are some facts for adults and kids:
- The largest raindrop was recorded in the United States - the size of the "droplet" was 9.4 cm.
- The longest rain was recorded in India - torrential rain has been watered for almost 2 years.
- The largest hailstone fell from the sky in Bangladesh - its weight was 2 kg and 2 grams.
- The height of the cloud in the sky may be higher than the highest peak of Mount Everest.
- The smallest iceberg can melt for as long as 10 years.
These are just a few of the amazing water facts that can be found on the Internet and libraries. Every day there are only more of them. Learn, search, tell new facts to your friends and family to make the world more interesting and better!
Nadezhda Belikova
Poems "A Story about Water" for preschoolers
What is water for?
To always be clean.
To make mom cook soup
And she made everyone drink tea.
To wash our linen,
To wash the floors, dishes,
So that cleanliness is everywhere.
To swim and dive
To have a rest in the summer!
To water the flowers
Vegetable gardens and orchards.
To water the birds for animals,
So that everyone's life is more fun.
And comes out: "Without water and not there, and not syudy!"
The group studied the water.
We learned how the water sings ...
We took the pipettes in our hands,
The droplet recognized the song:
How - drip - drip - she sings.
And we counted the droplets
They sang along with the drop.
We turned on the tape recorder,
The drops pounded quickly:
Drop-drop-drop, drop-drop-drop ...
In this song the rain was recognized
And with "Rain" we played.
We ran to wash our hands,
The tap was opened with water,
The tap water ran
S - s - s - sang with us.
Goodbye squish-squish-squish said
And she ran away somewhere.
The nanny showed the kettle.
Bul - bul - bul,
The water is boiling
It's time for the kids to go to the table.
We drank tea, they asked the water:
"Where will we see you?"
The water answered us:
"I am different".
In the house, I go to the tap,
I'm colorless and odorless
I am transparent and pure.
I climb into the refrigerator
There I turn into pieces of ice.
When I get very hot
I instantly turn into steam.
In the morning there is grass in droplets
This is me, called dew.
I'm going in the clouds in the summer
And I return to the ground like rain.
The puddles are me too
Only it is not very clean there.
Drops ran down the hill,
People called it a brook.
The streams came together
They turned into rivers.
Rivers flow across the Earth
They carry water to the lake,
And in the lakes and in the seas ...
In the seas, the water is salty.
The seas touch
The expanses of water are expanding.
They are called oceans.
The sun heats the earth
It lifts me into the sky by evaporation.
I will cool down there, I will gather and
I will return to Earth again.
Snow in winter and rain in summer.
Down - up, up - down!
HYDROGEN.
No wonder the people said so.
Wherever you look, everywhere I am
And the Earth became a blue planet.
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Water is one of the most pressing human needs. Only oxygen is more important. Without it, life is not possible at all, without water a person can live only 3-4 days, but without food you can last almost 3 months. So you need to treat water very carefully, because there is not so much water suitable for drinking on Earth, moreover, three quarters of the planetary area is covered with water.
1. Water is called chemical compound H2O. But it is a unique universal solvent. That is why it is impossible to find clean water in nature. Water absorbs many substances and compounds encountered on the way. As a result, a person does not consume pure water, but a complex solution with many very different components. By the way, an interesting fact: only water is on Earth in three states at once - liquid, solid and gaseous.
2. It is known that 70% of our planet is covered with water, of which 3% is fresh (mostly in the form of glaciers), and only 1% is drinkable! And this despite the fact that a person needs 35 tons of drinking water on average during his life. In general, water experts distinguish 1330 of its types, classifications are carried out according to various criteria - by origin, by the type and amount of dissolved substances, etc.
3. As already mentioned, a person cannot exist without water. After all, we are 60-70% composed of it, and for children and five-month-old embryos, this figure is even higher - 80% and 94%, respectively (and a watermelon by 93%). The role of water in the life of the body can hardly be overestimated.
It is responsible for the delivery of nutrients, vitamins and microelements to the cells and the subsequent removal of waste products, participation in the processes of respiration and thermoregulation. In addition, scientists have shown that it is enough to reduce the water content in the body by 2%, as the mental and physical indicators of a person fall by 20%.
4. That is why it is recommended to consume 1.5-2 liters of water per person per day. This indicator, of course, should be selected individually depending on weight, season, human activity, etc. But people often do not drink enough water or substitute various drinks for it.
And the brain sends out a signal that is mistakenly interpreted as hunger. Thus, drinking plenty of fluids is the basis of a simple and popular diet today. The main thing is to drink evenly throughout the day, and only pure water is taken into account, which should be either slightly cooler or slightly warmer than body temperature.
5. The usefulness of water for the body can hardly be overestimated. So just a couple of glasses of clean water can help overcome fatigue and depression. The same water can also reduce the risk of heart attacks, relieve swelling and increase blood pressure. Water is even more useful for lovers of coffee, tea and alcoholic beverages, which stimulate kidney function, which in turn leads to dehydration.
6. There is a unique lake Tsirknitskoe in Yugoslavia. It behaves cyclically - completely disappearing in winter and summer, and filling up with fish in spring and autumn.
7. There is a unique lake in Algeria, which is filled with "ink". You can even write with this water.
8. And in Antarctica there is a lake with salinity 11 times more than sea water. It is so salty that it does not freeze even at -50 degrees Celsius.
9. Azerbaijan can boast of combustible water. It is enough to bring a match to the water and it will light up with a blue flame.
10. In Sicily, you can find the most dangerous water. It gathers in a lake, at the bottom of which two sources of sulfuric acid are beating. There can be lakes in general.
11. But the cleanest water was in Finland. Scientists for Unesco conducted a study of the quality and quantity of fresh water in 122 countries around the world. But at the same time, more than 1 billion people do not have access to water at all.
12. A liter of the most expensive water costs $ 90 and is sold in Los Angeles (USA). Manufacturers talk about crystal purity and amazing taste, actively decorate the bottle with Swarovski crystals. It seems that, first of all, amateurs are chasing this, water is rather an indicator of status. After all, Hollywood stars also take up such bottles.
13. It is not just the water that is consumed that can be dangerous. Water also collects substances in the piping, which can have serious consequences after a shower. So a very small amount of manganese can be inhaled during a long shower, which greatly affects the nervous system ...
14. Now, scientists estimate fresh water reserves at 3 million cubic meters, and 1 trillion tons evaporate from the earth's surface every day. By the way, the ocean level is also gradually increasing; for the last hundred years, the growth rate has been 1 mm per year. Another interesting fact about water supplies. It turns out that water reserves in all reservoirs can raise the level of the World Ocean by as much as 3 cm.
15. It turned out that sea water contains as much as 1.5 grams of protein per 1 cubic centimeter, and other nutrients are present in it. Thus, in the Atlantic Ocean alone, 20,000 crops are dissolved, equivalent to the annual harvest across the fields of the entire Earth.
16. Economic fact. If a faucet is flowing in the house, then a trickle of just a needle thick is capable of taking out 840 liters per day.
In this article, you will learn:
- What are some interesting facts about the properties of water
- What are interesting facts about water in human life
- What are some interesting geographical facts about water
- Interesting facts about water pollution everyone should know
Water is vital for any person. Only air is more important than water, without which life is impossible in principle. Without water, a person can live only 3-4 days, but without food he can last almost 3 months. So water should be conserved, especially considering that there are not so many usable water, although it covers almost ¾ of the area of our planet. In this article, we present some of the most interesting facts about water.
Water properties: interesting facts
At first glance, water is familiar and understandable to each of us. But at the same time, it has not been fully solved, since it conceals many intimate secrets.
Vladimir Dal gives the following interpretation of the word "water": a spontaneous liquid, falling in the form of rain and snow, forming springs, streams, rivers and lakes on the ground, and mixtures with salts - seas. Water has endless potential, it gives life, it shows maternal care, heals and cleanses.
Facts about the properties of water:
- It is a well-known fact: water is an excellent conductor of electricity. But it is interesting that pure (distilled water) is a dielectric, and the molecules of impurities and ions of various mineral salts conduct electricity.
- Another interesting fact: the density of water in a liquid state is greater than in a solid one. Therefore, ice does not sink in water, but always remains on the surface.
- It is no secret that a person is about 2/3 water. In animals, this figure is lower. They are about 50% water. But the most interesting creatures on the planet in terms of their water content are jellyfish, which are about 99% liquid.
- It is noteworthy that hot water turns into ice faster. If you fill identical vessels with hot and cold water, the hot first one will become ice. Such a discovery was made in 1963 by a Tanzanian schoolboy Erasto Mpemba.
- Another interesting fact about water is that it reflects light differently in different states. For example, snow reflects somewhere around 90% of the light, and water only 5%.
- If clean water is cooled to -120 degrees, then it will become viscous and even stringy.
- Sea water freezes at a temperature of -2 0 C.
- It is known that the cleanest fresh water is found in Finland.
- If a person loses about 10% of their body weight, they die.
- Despite the fact that the Earth is almost 80% covered with water, only 1% can be consumed.
The mystical properties of water
There is an interesting suggestion that water has memory. Water absorbs any impact, remembers everything that happens around. When it captures information and acquires new properties, it changes its structure. Chemical composition at the same time, H 2 O remains unchanged. The structure of water is how its molecules are organized. According to the hypothesis of scientists, it is the water molecules that form stable groups of liquid crystals that are a kind of memory cells, where water records everything it sees, feels, hears.
Konstantin Korotkov, a Russian professor, believes that human emotions, both positive and negative, affect water the most. From love, the energy of water is strengthened, and due to the impact of aggression, it decreases.
Interesting Facts about water associated with its mystical properties, confirms the Austrian researcher Allois Grubber. He believes that if you turn to water with positive, kind thoughts, thank and bless it, it will be of better quality. Continuing this thought, the Japanese researcher Emoto Masaru cites an interesting fact that by using water containing this or that information, a person is able to radically change his state. Therefore, before drinking the water, Emoto recommends smiling and thanking her.
An interesting fact about water, associated with the fact that it carries specific information, Emoto Masaru not only substantiated theoretically, but also confirmed by practical research. He presented great photos showing the structure of the water in different options(depending on what "impressions" she gets). In the course of laboratory research, he studied water samples, subjecting it to various influences. "Impressions" of the water were recorded - it was quickly frozen in a cryogenic chamber, and then studied under a microscope. The results were amazing.
Water in human life: interesting facts
Water covers 80% of the Earth. At the same time, fresh water makes up 3% (mainly glaciers). As noted, potable water is 1%. And this despite the fact that a person needs about 35 tons of drinking water during his life.
Experts distinguish between 1,330 species, classifying water according to a number of characteristics: origin, type and volume of dissolved substances, etc.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of water in human life. We are 60-70% water. In children and five-month-old embryos, this figure is even higher - 80% and 94%, respectively. Water is very important for the functioning of the entire body. It supplies nutrients, trace elements and vitamins to the cells, removes waste products, and participates in the processes of thermoregulation and respiration. The researchers also found that with a decrease in water content of only 2% in the human body, irreversible changes immediately occur. At the same time, physical and mental indicators fall by 20%.
That is why scientists advise people to consume 1.5 to 2 liters of water per day. Of course, this indicator can vary depending on weight, time of year, human mobility and other indicators. However, we often do not drink enough water, replacing it with different drinks. In this case, the brain gives a signal that the body mistakenly perceives as hunger. This explains the recommendation of nutritionists to drink enough water in the process of losing weight. It is very important to drink water evenly throughout the day.
The benefits of drinking water can hardly be overestimated. So, thanks to just a couple of glasses of clean water, you can cope with fatigue and depression. Rest at the sea or by another body of water is also beneficial for the nervous system and human health. Confirmed fact: thanks to water, the risk of heart attacks is reduced, a person gets rid of edema and copes with low or high blood pressure... Water is even more beneficial for lovers of coffee, tea and alcohol, as these drinks stimulate the kidneys, which leads to dehydration.
- There is a unique Lake Cirknicke in Slovenia. In winter and summer period it disappears without a trace, and fills up in spring and autumn.
- Another interesting fact - in Algeria there is an amazing lake with "ink", which you can even write with.
- In Antarctica there is a lake with water 11 times saltier than the sea. It has so much salty water that does not freeze even at -50 0 C.
- Azerbaijan also has a unique reservoir filled with "fuel". If you bring up a match, the water will flash.
- The most dangerous water in Sicily. It gathers in a lake, at the bottom of which two sources of sulfuric acid are beating.
- The cleanest water was found in Finland. Scientists have investigated the quality and quantity of fresh water in 122 countries of the world for UNESCO. At the same time, 1 billion people have no access to water at all.
- The cost of the most expensive liter of water is $ 90. It is sold in Los Angeles (USA). Manufacturers claim that the water has crystal purity and amazing taste. In addition, they decorate bottles with this water with Swarovski crystals. Water is quite popular among Hollywood stars and wealthy people who want to demonstrate their status.
- According to the calculations of scientists, the reserves of fresh water are today 3 million km 3, and 1 trillion tons evaporate from the surface of the Earth every day. By the way, the ocean level is slowly but surely growing by 1 mm every year.
Glaciers are very important for life on Earth. Thanks to the ice on the planet great amount fresh water. In addition, it is glaciers that restrain the global water level in the world's oceans.
Here are some of the most interesting facts about ice.
- Ice has many different names.
Only sea ice has several names, not to mention ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. Small-sized, in-water, pancake ice, nilas are only a small part of what is in the Arctic and Antarctica.
If you are sailing near the North or South Polis, then you better know where the iceberg is, and where is the bottom of the fast ice (ice bonded to the shore or bottom), and what is the difference between bog and hummock, a floating ice floe and a flauberg (floating mountain). If you think this is an exhaustive list of terms, you are wrong. Thus, the inhabitants of Alaska use more than 100 different types of ice.
- Freezing rain starts to fall when snow passes through the warm and cold layers of the atmosphere.
Ice rain is dangerous to humans. In the process of its formation, it goes through several stages. First, snow enters the warm layer of the atmosphere, then melts and turns into raindrops. Then it goes through the cold air layer. Raindrops do not have time to freeze completely during the passage of this layer. But hitting a cold surface, the drops immediately turn into ice.
As a result, a thick layer of ice forms on the roads. Ice builds up on electrical wires, which can cause them to break
In modern laboratories, researchers are trying to predict how and where freezing rain might hit. One of these laboratories is located in New Hampshire.
- Dry ice does not contain water.
It is frozen carbon dioxide, capable of converting from a solid state to a gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, bypassing the liquid phase. Dry ice allows you to maintain the required subzero temperature in some products, as it freezes at - 78.5 0 С.
- Ice helped people come up with a refrigerator.
Citing interesting facts about water, we cannot ignore this information. Thousands of years ago, people already used ice to keep food fresh. At the beginning of the 19th century, people carved ice cubes from frozen water bodies, brought them and kept them in special isolated rooms and cellars. In the late 19th century, people started using household ice boxes for food.
The ice made it easier and more comfortable to farm. In addition, it became possible to store meat and other products with a short shelf life in large quantities, as well as debug their production. As a result, other industries began to develop and improve.
In the late 19th century, tons of garbage dumped into sewage polluted natural ice reserves. This is what prompted the inventors to create a modern electric refrigerator. The first commercially successful refrigerator was released in 1927 in the United States.
- The Greenland ice sheet contains 10% of the world's glacial ice.
Continuing to provide interesting facts about water, we note that the Greenland ice sheet is the second ice mass in the world, yielding to the Antarctic ice sheet. It has enough water to raise the world ocean level by at least 6 meters. If all glaciers and ice sheets melt on Earth, the water level will rise by more than 80 meters.
In 2016, the journal Nature Climate Change published a study according to the results of which the Greenland ice sheet loses 8 thousand tons every second.
- Icebergs and glaciers are not only white.
White light is made up of many colors, and each has a different wavelength. As snow accumulates on an iceberg, the air bubbles contract and more light enters the ice than is reflected from the bubbles and small ice crystals. This is the whole secret: ice absorbs colors that have longer wavelengths, such as yellow and red. However, the shorter wavelength colors green and blue reflect light. That is why the shade of glaciers and icebergs is bluish-greenish.
- There have been many ice ages on Earth.
We believe that there was only one ice age on Earth. But this is not the case. There have been many such periods on Earth, and very harsh. According to scientists, our planet was once completely frozen. Researchers call this hypothesis "Snowball Earth".
According to a number of assumptions, some ice ages- the result of the evolution of new life forms: plants, unicellular and multicellular organisms. It was thanks to them that the concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere changed so much that the greenhouse effect changed.
To this day, the Earth goes through cycles of warm and cold periods. Researchers now predict that over the next 100 years, the rate of warming will be at least 20 times faster than the rate of previous periods of warming.
- More than 2/3 of the Earth's fresh water reserves are stored in glaciers.
Melting glaciers will not only raise the level of the world's oceans, but also significantly reduce the supply of fresh water and reduce its quality. In addition, melting glaciers will lead to a problem with energy supply, since many hydroelectric power plants will not be able to work properly - due to melting, the course of many rivers will change. In a number of regions, for example, in South America and the Himalayas, such difficulties have already arisen.
- Ice is not only on Earth.
Water consists of oxygen and hydrogen, and there are many of these elements in our solar system. Taking into account the distance from the Sun on the planets, the volume of water is different. So, on Jupiter and Saturn, located far from the Sun, as well as on their satellites, there is much more water than on Mars, Earth and Mercury, where the temperature is very high, as a result of which it is more difficult for hydrogen and oxygen to form water molecules.
The planets distant from the Sun have several frozen satellites. One of them - Europa - the sixth satellite of Jupiter. There are several layers of ice, a kilometer thick, on it. Cracks and undulations were found on Europa's surface. Most likely, they were formed by waves of the underwater ocean.
Due to the large reserves of water on the satellite Europa, scientists do not exclude the presence of life on it.
- There is an ice volcano (cryovolcano).
Considering interesting facts about water, one cannot ignore the existence of a cryovolcano. Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, has a peculiarity. At its north pole, there are cryovolcanoes - unique geysers that spew out ice, not lava. This happens when ice buried deep below the surface heats up to become steam, and then erupts into the cold atmosphere of the satellite in the form of ice particles.
- Ice on Mars can help you learn about life on the Red Planet.
Satellite data confirm Mars has ice (both dry and frozen water). It is located in the polar caps of the Red Planet and in permafrost regions. Mars' ice stocks could reveal a secret that has been debated for a very long time: is there life on Mars?
In future missions to Mars, scientists will try to find out if life can be sustained by the supply of water, which is likely to emerge from underground glaciers.
- A very interesting fact: about 1/3 of male fish in the rivers of England are at the stage of sex change. This is due to the fact that the water is very polluted. Hormones, including those that are part of female contraceptives, enter the sewage system. They contribute to fish sex reversal.
- About a thousand children in India die every day from diarrhea and other illnesses caused by drinking dirty water.
- US residents annually purchase over 29 million plastic bottles water. Their production requires 17 million barrels of crude oil, which would be enough to provide fuel for a million passenger cars for a year. Only 13% of these bottles are recycled. It takes centuries for them to decompose.
- After the tsunami in Japan in 2011, a floating island formed that reached 70 miles in length. This island contains houses, plastic, cars and radioactive waste. Gradually, this mass floats to the Pacific Ocean. According to experts, the island will be next to Hawaii in two years, and in another year - on the west coast of the United States.
- After the 2011 tsunami and the ensuing global nuclear crisis, the Japanese government allowed 11 million liters of radioactive water to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean. A few days later, 80 kilometers from the coast, they began to catch fish contaminated with radiation.
- Another interesting but sad fact: 7 billion kilograms of garbage, mainly plastic, are thrown into the oceans every year.
- Around a million seabirds are killed every year by plastic waste. Over 100 thousand marine mammals and countless fish are dying from thoughtless environmental pollution.
- Environmental pollution in China affects the US climate. It takes only 5 days for dirty air to travel from China to the United States.
- It is believed that the Ganges River in India is one of the dirtiest in the world. Sewer drains, garbage, food, and animal remains enter it.
- Between 1956 and 1968, a Japanese factory threw mercury infecting fish directly into the sea. Subsequently, people (more than 2 thousand) who ate this fish also became infected with mercury. The outcome was fatal for many.
- Continuing to give interesting facts about water, we note that the ancient Greek Acropolis in just 40 years was destroyed by acid rains, and not precipitation, which had been going on all the previous 2.5 thousand years.
- A study of 60 South Carolina beaches found that water is most polluted at the peak of the ebb and flow, which occurs during the full moon and new moon.
- The Mississippi River brings about 1.5 million cubic meters of nitrate to the Gulf of Mexico annually. Every summer, a "dead zone" with an area of New Jersey appears in the bay.
- Globally, about 15 million children die each year due to diseases caused by drinking contaminated drinking water.
Popular myths about water
Myth one: tap water is drinkable.
According to many, tap water is okay. This is true if you live, for example, in Germany. But you can't drink water in Russian cities.
Tap water extracted from a river or spring goes through several stages of filtration and then chlorinated. It seems to be a good idea: filters remove debris from water, bacteria die due to chlorine. But few people change filters in time, and chlorine is dangerous for both bacteria and people. In this regard, tap water must be filtered.
Myth two: distilled water is very beneficial.
In simple terms, after heating water to a vaporous state and subsequent cooling and re-transformation into water, an ideally pure liquid is obtained - distilled. It contains so few minerals that you can safely use it for any technique, be it irons, car batteries, humidifiers.
Often people believe that in urban conditions it is worth using just such water, since it is completely purified of everything harmful. Since there are almost no mineral salts and trace elements in distilled water, it is an excellent solvent, but precisely because of this it is unusable.
The human body needs minerals and trace elements to function properly. The need for them is satisfied with water, and therefore it is not recommended to drink distilled liquid.
Myth three: melt water cures all diseases
Many adherents of alternative medicine are sure that fresh melt water heals everything: increases immunity, heals chronic diseases, accelerates recovery processes - in a word, it has only a beneficial effect.
However, melt water is not a cure. It can be beneficial due to the fact that its structure is similar to the structure of the intercellular fluid. Cells dump waste materials, dead cells into the intercellular fluid. Melt water is a way to cleanse intercellular fluid from toxins, renewing it. But under one important condition. Frozen water must be clean and of high quality. It is best if it is filtered. It is possible to freeze such a liquid only in strict accordance with the technology, to separate clean ice from contaminated one and consume only fresh melt water within 24 hours after thawing, while it “remembers” its changed structure.
Myth four: silver purifies water
Some people believe that if you put a silver object in a container of water, it will become safe to drink, since all bacteria will disappear immediately. Is this statement true? Silver cleans water from harmful impurities, but in order for the water to become perfectly clean, its high concentration is required. Of course, silver can be used as a bacteriostatic agent for long-term storage of drinking water, but with one condition. The water should be initially microbiologically high quality and stored in the dark. No new bacteria should enter it.
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Most of the world's population still does not attach much importance and does not pay due attention to the availability, quality and quantity of water in our lives. For those fortunate enough to live in non-arid regions, water is of little value, but scientists are very concerned about the state of the earth. And every day new interesting facts about water are revealed.
Water in numbers
- Now water occupies 70% of the planet's surface, of which only 1% is fit for human consumption. Of all the world's water resources, this is only 3%, of which only 1.5% are accessible to humans.
- Almost half of all water, namely 46%, is in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean accounts for 23.9% of the water, the Indian Ocean got 20.3%, and the Arctic Ocean - 3.7%.
- The temperature at which it freezes is 1.91 degrees Celsius.
- There are 8 septillion molecules in one glass of water!
- There are about 1330 natural types of water on our planet. They are classified according to the mode of origin (melt, soil, rainfall) and composition.
- A person needs about two liters of water a day. Water contributes to weight loss: drinking more than two liters, we enable the body to quickly cleanse itself of toxins. Water dulls hunger well, drunk on an empty stomach or before meals.
- People who drink the right amount of water are less likely to have a heart attack on a daily basis than those who drink little pure water.
- Without water, a person can live only six days.
- The body of an adult consists of water by 70%, a child - by 80%, a fetus at the age of five months in general by 94%!
- During his life, a person drinks about thirty-five tons of water. And thirty-three liters of water can be boiled with the energy of the human body, released per day.
State of water
Also available to us interesting information about water and its conditions.
- Scientists have found five states of liquid water and fourteen states of solid water.
- Cold water freezes to ice slower than hot water, a schoolboy proved this.
- Ice is denser than liquid water, so it sticks to its surface.
- The largest ice reserves on Earth are found on the polar ice caps.
- Seawater contains protein and many other nutrients.
- Jellyfish is 99% water, while watermelon is 93%.
- the world's oceans are three degrees higher than the temperature of the closest air layer.
- There is water in Azerbaijan that can burn due to the large amount of methane in the composition.
- In South Africa, water flows from taps that can be eaten without purification - the third in the world in terms of purity, and the first place is taken by the water of Finland.
- The lake in Antarctica is eleven times saltier than the sea and freezes only at -50 o C.
- March 22 - World Water Day.
In order to preserve the vital supplies of water on the planet for as long as possible, first of all, we should carefully and economically treat it ourselves and teach our children to do this. The child should be interested in any question. Have conversations with your baby in which you can tell him interesting facts about water according to his age. All children are maximalists, therefore, information starting with the words "the most, most" will surely arouse interest and remain in memory!
- The largest drop of rain was 9.4 centimeters! Such drops fell on the United States.
- The longest rain fell continuously in India for almost two years!
- The largest hailstone weighed one kilogram and two grams! She fell to Bangladesh.
- The thickness of a cloud in the sky can be greater than its thickness can reach sixteen kilometers!
- An iceberg can melt for ten years.
These are not all interesting facts about water, especially since there are more of them every day. Search, find out, make discoveries yourself to make the world better and more interesting!