Surprising Facts about Water

· WHO has recognized that up to 80% of all known diseases may be due to consumption of poor-quality water. In the previous century, Louis Pasteur came to similar conclusions.

· Organs with high amounts of water are the lungs (83%), muscles and kidneys (79%), and the heart and brain (73%). Even the bones are 31% water!

· 60 to 70% of our body is water. It’s a bit higher for newborns (77%) and men have more water in their bodies than women.

· If you drink 2 litres of water a day, you’ll drink about 60,000 litres of water in your life since the average life expectancy is around 79 years.

· Water has memory. Even if you cleanse it of all kinds of impurities, it will “remember” its past. This explains the effect of homeopathic remedies in minimal concentration.

· Lack of fluid in the body is often masked by hunger. If you feel like you're not getting enough, think about the last time you drank plain water.

· A 5-8% decrease can cause fatigue and dizziness. Loss of over 10% of total body water can cause physical and mental deterioration, accompanied by severe thirst. Death occurs at a loss of between 15 and 25% of the body’s water.

· On Earth, only 1.1% of the total water supply is suitable for drinking. Most of the fresh water is contained in glaciers.

· Hot water cools and freezes faster in the cold than cold water. This phenomenon is called the Mpemba effect.

· Water is the only substance that we can easily find in three states of aggregation under natural conditions. Everyone has seen it in solid, liquid and gaseous form.

· With age, a person literally “shrinks out.” An embryo contains 94% fluid, a child contains 80%, and an elderly person contains about 60%.

· In prosperous countries, one person uses more than 100 litres of water per day. In the Middle Ages, a European resident got by with 5 litres a day.

· You can only survive about 3 days without water.

· There is no common chemical compound with the formula H2O in nature. Water always contains salts and other substances.

· More than 70% of all water that humans use on Earth is used in the agricultural sector. 22% is used for industrial consumption.

· Water absorbs and scatters light. This is why the ocean appears blue.

· Scientists distinguish not 3 states of water (solid, liquid and gaseous), but more than 20. Under certain conditions, this substance can become glassy, super-viscous, and viscous.