Science Facts About Water

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

It would take about 17,000 McDonald's strawfuls of water to fill a 34-gallon bathtub.

A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.

The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

Cold water weighs more than hot water.

Water is actually naturally blue.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.

If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.

Approximately 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. However, less than one percent of this total water is readily available freshwater suitable for human consumption.

In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.

For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.

A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.

There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.