1. On average, a British person lets eight litres of
water flow down the sink while they clean their teeth.
2. Europeans use up to 25 times the amount of water on a daily basis as their
developing-world counterparts.
3. Two-thirds of the
world’s fresh water is used to irrigate crops.
4. Americans drench their gardens with seven
billion gallons of water a day.
5. Due to population
density, the south east of England has less available water per head than
Sudan.
6. Eighty per cent of China’s rivers are too
polluted to support fish.
7. 1.1 billion people
globally have no access to clean water.
8. North America has 8% of the world’s
population, but access to 15% of the world’s water supply. For China the
figures are 21% and 7%.
9. Flushing the toilet in the UK uses more water
than an average African has for cooking, cleaning, washing and drinking each
day.
10. Ten different countries rely on the River
Nile for water.