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below are some facts about water. These facts do not originate from ADVANCED
WATER TREATMENT but have been stolen from all and sundry
for your information and pleasure.
Water Facts
Water is the on of the earth’s greatest assets, not only for providing
us with a nutrients we need to survive and go about our daily lives, it
also is the a great universal solvent dissolving almost anything. Whether
the substances dissolved in it are from us human beings of from naturally
occurring processes, many of these dissolved substances need to be removed.
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Of all the water on earth, only a fraction of a percent is available
for human use as fresh, drinkable water.
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Greeks used the power of water more than 2,000 years ago to turn
wheels that ground wheat into flour.
- Industry
accounts for nearly a quarter of the world’s water use. In many
countries it provides 50 – 80 percent of the total demand for
water.
- Nature
renews the world’s fresh water supply by drawing 86 percent of
the moisture in the atmosphere from the ocean, and 14 percent
from the land.
- Each
year, evaporation fuelled by the sun’s energy lifts 500,000 cubic
kilometres of moisture into the atmosphere – and an equal amount
falls back to earth.
- Water
covers about 75 percent of the world’s surface. It occurs in all
living organisms and dissolves almost everything to some extent.
- In
1850, the water available for each person on earth was eight times
more plentiful than it is expected to be in 2050.
- A
healthy human being can live for about a month without food, but
will die in less than a week without fresh water.
- Unequal
distribution makes water particularly precious. A third of the
world’s water falls in the Caribbean and South America, while
less than 1 percent occurs in Australia.
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examples of water usage within different areas of industry are: |
- Automotive
it takes 19,000 litres of water to assemble a car and over 380,000
litres to manufacture it from start to finish.
- Healthcare
every hospital patient uses 950 litres of water per day in direct
care.
- Pharmaceutical
most liquid pharmaceuticals are well over 90% highly purified
water.
- Semiconductors
it takes 600 - 1,100 litres of ultra-pure water to produce one
microchip.
- Food
an industrial bakery uses 440 litres of water to produce
a loaf of bread.
- Power
Generation 115 litres of water are used in generating
one kilowatt-hour of electricity
- Paper
making one ream of paper takes 380 litres of water.
- Petroleum
over 185 litres of treated water is used to recover one barrel
of crude oil.
- Renal
Dialysis
200 litres or more of highly purified, bacteria and pyrogen free
water is needed for every dialysis a patient undergoes (over 10
times the amount drunk daily by an adult).
- Toiletries
& Cosmetics purified water constitutes up to 95% of the
end product.
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