Here are a few facts about water:
1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
2. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
4. While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
5. Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
6. Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither
acidic nor basic.
7. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
8. Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
9. Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
10. Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
11. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
12. The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.
Water is so much a part of us and so involved in our daily lives . . . no wonder we are drawn to it.
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6 comments:
wow... wonderful pictures
I love the last one- that one just pops out!.
I often think how amazing water is. Imagine having to wash things in syrup or even salt water. What gooey thing could fall from the sky and be so good for us? It is so ideally a neutral substance in our lives. It leaves no taste, or smell and very little stain, unless it has diluted something on to which it fell.
Here's to water!
Oh these are very nice. I love the rich colors..and they are full of life1
lovely photos, the last is spectacular!
If we as a species are drawn to water - and on that I completely agree with you - then Carmi as an individual is even more drawn to interpretations like yours. In words and pictures, these are brilliant - there's such an energy, a vibrancy, that winds its way through the entire series.
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