Water Facts

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Food and Drink

We take safe drinking water for granted, but over half of the worlds most common illnesses depend on water for their transmission, including hepatitis, diarrhea, cholera and dysentery (source GREEN Stapp manual).

• People can live weeks without food, but only a few days without water. Each day we must take in 8 glasses of water.
• Many desert animals do not have water to drink on a regular basis. Their digestive systems extract all of the water out of their prey to make up for the lack of water.
• Birds that drink saltwater, do not use the salt. The salt is filtered out and leaves their bodies through their nostrils.
• If the water in a stream or lake is is not clean enough to support salmon, it is not clean enough for us to drink.

Fish and Shellfish need clean water to survive and make them safe for us to eat.

• Worldwide, over 16% of the world's protein comes from fish (source Abandoned Seas, WWI).