There are about 326 million trillion gallons of water in the world. 97.5% of it is salt water, leaving a mere 8.15 million trillion gallons (2.5%) as fresh water.Less than 1% of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use.
Over 90% of the world's supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica. The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.
If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.
884 million people, lack access to safe drinking water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
A power shower in use for five-minutes uses more water than the typical person living in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
To manufacture new cars as much as 148,000 litres of water are used per car.
It takes approximately 7,000 litres of water to refine one barrel of crude oil.
