A person needs 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive.

A person can live weeks without food, yet only days without water.

The average American uses 100 to 175 gallons of water at home each day, while the average African FAMILY uses about 5 gallons.

Water systems fail at a rate of 50% or higher.

Poor people living in the slums pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.

88% of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitaions and poor hygiene.

Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water related disease.

Almost 2 in 3 people lack access to clean water and live on less than $2 a day.

Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.

1.8 million children die each year from diarrhea – 4,900 deaths each day.

Human health improvements are influenced not only by the use of clean water, but also by personal hygiene habits and the use of sanitation facilities.

At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.The water and sanitaion crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns…

http://water.org/waterpartners.aspx?pgID=916

Another site goes on…

Ninety-seven percent of the earth’s water is saltwater in oceans and seas. Of the 3% percent that is freshwater, only 1% percent is available for drinking — the remaining 2% is frozen in the polar ice caps

Water makes up almost sixty six percent of the human body, and seventy percent of the brain

You can refill an 8 oz. glass of water approximately 15,000 times for the same cost as a six pack of soda pop. And, water has no sugar or caffeine (this fact may only apply to the United States).

Water is unusual in that the solid form, ice, is less dense than the liquid form, which is why ice floats.

1.2 billion — Number of people worldwide who do not have access to clean water.
6.8 billion — Gallons of water Americans flush down their toilets every day.

Over 90% of the world’s supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica.

http://www.budgetwater.info/water_facts.htm