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BKMWWater is essential for all life on Earth. The human body is made up of 45-60% water and water is needed for critical functions like regulating body temperature and transporting nutrients. While the oceans hold the vast majority of Earth's water, less than 1% of water is available as freshwater in rivers, lakes, and groundwater. Given water's unique properties as a solvent and its role in biological and industrial processes, access to clean water is necessary for drinking, sanitation, agriculture, and electricity generation.
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Water covers 70% of the Earth's surface and there is about 1.5 billion cubic kilometers of water on Earth. 97% is salty seawater, 2.1% is locked in ice caps, and less than 1% is freshwater. The water cycle involves evaporation, condensation, and precipitation that allows water to circulate through the biosphere. Water is essential for life and takes the form of liquid, solid (ice), and gas (vapor) on Earth.
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Water is essential for all life on Earth. It makes up a large portion of both terrestrial and aquatic living beings. In humans, water makes up around two-thirds of the body's composition and is distributed throughout our organs and systems. It performs crucial functions like cleansing the kidneys, regulating temperature, and transporting oxygen and nutrients via blood plasma. Drinking water provides health benefits such as reducing risks of diseases, improving appearance, and aiding weight loss. In conclusion, water is vital for sustaining all life and should not be wasted.
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Water is essential for all living things and makes up a large percentage of their bodies. It has three forms - gas, liquid, and ice. Water is needed by living things in many ways and quantities, and can be consumed by organisms or serve as their habitat. Most animals are composed of 60-70% water, while plants contain even more at 75-90%. The human body is also mostly water - over 60% in young adults, decreasing with age. Blood is about 60% plasma, which itself is 95% water. Urine also consists of around 95% water. The document examines the role and percentages of water in various living beings.
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Fresh water is a precious resource that makes up only 3% of the water on Earth, yet agriculture consumes 70% of fresh water due to inappropriate irrigation technologies. Water exists in three states - liquid, gas, and solid - and is vital for sustaining all life on Earth. As the planet's population and demand for resources increases, the available fresh water is decreasing, making it important that we learn to conserve and efficiently use this critical commodity.
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Most of the Earth's surface consists of water, with more water than land. There are two kinds of water: salt water containing high salt levels and freshwater with less than 1% salt, which is safe for drinking. While most surface water is frozen or salty, water is unique for existing naturally as a liquid, gas, and solid.
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The document discusses several interesting facts about the chemical compound water. It covers water's role in organisms, physical states, and chemical properties. Some key points include:
- Water makes up 75% of both animals and fish and even higher percentages of various plants, with humans being 86% water.
- Water can both save and kill - it transfers 85% of diseases worldwide, causing 25 million deaths annually.
- Water exists in nature as a solid, liquid, and gas, but scientists have identified 5 liquid and 14 solid states. Under certain temperatures, water can take on properties similar to glass.
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Only 2.5% of the Earth's water is freshwater, with over two-thirds locked in icecaps and glaciers. Less than 1% of global freshwater is readily accessible for human use. Fresh water supplies are under pressure due to increasing population, consumption, pollution, and climate change effects like more extreme droughts and floods. Many regions and countries will likely experience serious freshwater shortages within 20 years if problems are not addressed. Desalination remains an expensive option restricted to wealthier nations.
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Water is essential for all living things and makes up a large percentage of their bodies. It has three forms - gas, liquid, and ice. Water is needed by living things in many ways and quantities, and can be consumed by organisms or serve as their habitat. Most animals are composed of 60-70% water, while plants contain even more at 75-90%. The human body is also mostly water - over 60% in young adults, decreasing with age. Blood is about 60% plasma, which itself is 95% water. Urine also consists of around 95% water. The document examines the role and percentages of water in various living beings.
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Most of the Earth's surface consists of water, with more water than land. There are two kinds of water: salt water containing high salt levels and freshwater with less than 1% salt, which is safe for drinking. While most surface water is frozen or salty, water is unique for existing naturally as a liquid, gas, and solid.
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Water is found in oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds. Oceans contain about 97% of the world's water and cover 71% of the Earth's surface. Lakes are bodies of water surrounded by land that can vary in size. Rivers are large streams that flow over land and help shape it. Streams are smaller bodies of water that flow between banks. Ponds are small areas of still, fresh water.
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This document discusses natural water resources and their importance. It covers 5 main water resources: ponds, rivers, lakes, seas, and their significance. Ponds provide recreation and water supply. Rivers transport organisms and sediments, provide power, and form flood plains. Lakes offer recreation, water supply, habitat, and receive wastewater. Seas moderate climate, support trade/travel, and provide resources like fish. In conclusion, water resources are essential for life and mankind utilizes them for various domestic, agricultural, industrial, and recreational purposes. Their protection is important.
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Water is essential for all life on Earth. It is necessary for hydration, temperature regulation, oxygen transfer, plant growth, and reproduction in humans, animals and plants. Nature provides water through the water cycle of evaporation, condensation and precipitation, but access to clean water varies greatly around the world. Many regions currently face or will soon face water shortages without changes to water management and conservation practices. Preserving access to clean, plentiful water is critical for ensuring public health, economic activity and protecting the environment upon which all life depends.
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- 2. A plastic bottle of water costs about $0.20 An adequate and continuous supply of clean water is needed for drinking, sewage and waste systems along with plant irrigation.
- 3. “All the water in the ocean is only for the eyes.” Longo of Tanzania “A little rain each day will fill a river to overflowing.” African Proverb “Water is colorless and tasteless, but you can live on it longer than eating food.” African Proverb
- 4. All physical living organisms that we know of are carbon based and water dependent. Human, plant and animal life depend on water. The human body is 45% to 60% water. Some marine organisms are up to 95% water.
- 5. Human beings can live for up to two months without solid food (one documented case 72 days). How long someone can live without solid food is a matter of health condition, body weight, and whether or there is ready access to water. A person can live for only from 3 to10 days without water. Water is essential for regulating body temperature, moistening the mouth, eyes and nose, bowel movements, carrying nutrition to the cells, lubricating the joints.
- 6. Unique properties of water make it essential to life. Only substance on earth that is in liquid form at common surface temperatures. Because of its property as a powerful solvent, wherever water goes it takes along valuable chemicals, minerals and nutrients. It expands as it freezes becoming less dense. If the opposite occurred and water became denser as it froze into ice then lakes, rivers and oceans would freeze through solid.
- 7. Water is used to irrigate plants. Water used in power plants to cool down electrical equipment and to turn turbines which then generate electricity.
- 8. About 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water. The oceans contain 96.5% of all water on earth. Sea water has a high salt content which makes it toxic for human consumption.
- 9. Polar Ice Caps/Glaciers/ Permanent Snow 1.74% Ground Water (Aquifer) 1.7% There is much more water stored in the ground than on the surface. Aquifers provide water in places where surface water is scarce. Water on the ground seeps down to recharge aquifers while water from aquifers seeps out to recharge rivers and lakes. Surface Water (Rivers/Lakes/Swamps) .029% The Air (Humidity)
- 10. Surface Water (Rivers/Lakes/Swamps) .029% The Air (Humidity) Rain (Precipitations – Rain, Snow, Hail, Dew
- 11. 1. Write a paragraph (at least five sentences) explaining why water is important. 2. Write out each of the three proverbs given at the beginning of this presentation and give an explanation of each.