Water The Precious Gift Of Nature And Surprising Facts About It

Water is the mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Living beings cannot imagine their lives without water. It is compulsory to drink to stay alive. Beside direct intake water is needed for growing plants to produce food stuffs. It is also required to cook food, bathe and wash clothes for healthy survival. The precious gift of water has no shape, no colour, no smell and no taste but it is essential for life. Fortunately is made available by nature in three forms -solid as ice, liquid as water and gas as water vapour. It helps human beings to digest their food to obtain energy for survival.

Amazing facts about water are followings: -

*Every human requires 2-4 litres water daily to drink but 2000-5000 litres of water to produce daily food.
*About 70% of human brain, 82% of blood and 92% of lungs are made up of water.
*71% of the surface of our earth is water that's why it is referred as the blue planet. It is because it looks blue whenever seen from the sky.
*2/3 of the human body is made up of water.
*About two-thirds of freshwater is preserved as frozen ice caps and glaciers.
*Around one trillion tonnes of water is evaporated by the sun everyday.
*Minimum one thousand litres of water is required to produce just one kilograms of rice.