Day 10 - Water

This challenge comes in two parts!

Part 1 - Strive to drink your full recommended servings of water today!  Here are some interesting facts about water!

1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
2. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
4. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
5. While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
6. Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
7. Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
8. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
9. Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
10. Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
11. The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.
12. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
13. The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.

Part 2 - Watch this nine minute clip and if it is within your means visit water.org to donate $5 so that clean water can be brought in to countries, cities or villages that do not have clean water.