Funky facts
It takes two big watering cans of water to flush the loo!
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85 out of every 100 people in the world don't have running water at home.
70 per cent of the world is covered in water.
A chicken is 75 per cent water. A pineapple is 80 per cent water. You are 66 per cent water!
Water means life
We all need water to live. We need it to drink, and crops need it to grow. Water keeps the planet alive. If there was no water we would all die very quickly!
but it has problems too
·Water can make you ill. In hot countries, if animals drink from ponds or rivers, dangerous germs can get in.
In some parts of the world crops don't grow because it doesn't rain enough. Lots of people die because they are hungry.
In some countries it doesn't often rain, but when it does it rains a lot. The rain runs away instead of soaking into the ground.
When too much rain falls too quickly there are floods. Floods ruin crops and destroy buildings, and people and animals can drown.
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If there's so much water in the world, why doesn't everyone have enough?
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Gus Clarke
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
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