Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
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Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
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Drinking water is about three billion years old.
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Forty-eight million people in the United States receive their drinking water from private or household wells.
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H2O expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no raise in the level of the ocean.
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Hot water is heavier than cold.
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In the typical Canadian home, 45% of water is used for the toilet, 28% is used for bathing and personal matters, 23% is used for laundry or dishes and 4% is used for cooking or drinking purposes.
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It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
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It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
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Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
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There is a tea in China called white tea which simply is boiled water.
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Most Earth's items contract once cold, but water expands once frozen.

Water is said to be soft if it has a low concentration of calcium and magnesium ions.

Hydrogen bonds are like hands, holding each molecule together. Water is a good absorber of heat compared to metal or land.

Having a sticky nature, water can climb until gravity takes toll(capillarity), water can run in a group unlike rice grain and water can lie to rest as a group like a puddle. When we spill water we must thanks (surface tension), which helps to keep it in a nice puddle.

The higher the water is above ground, the lesser the energy required for excitement.

Water is a universal solvent.

Water is life's true unique medium. It lubricates the working of the cell, transporting the materials and molecular machinery from one place to another and facilitating the chemical reactions that keeps us going. Water is sustenance and cleansing fluid, bringing nutrients to where they are needed and taking away wastes.

Ice could be melt to form drinking water or electrolysed by solar power into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.

A tomato is 95 percent water.

The height of the capillary rise is greater for narrow pores. In clay soils, where the grams are very small and the pore spaces between them are narrow, capillary action can raise the water level by over three meters.

Can reeds thrive without water?
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It's a good thing water is lighter in its solid form or else our polar ice caps would flood the world!

BION, in the original movie version of "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", Irwin Allen had pieces of giant ice SINK!

Sadly, water in the ground under our asphalt roads also expands, causing cracks and potholes. tjoeb};>

The sobering statistics about water:

• 80% of disease in the Third World is related to poor drinking water and sanitation
  
  
• 40% of the world's population has no access to clean drinking water
  
  
• Five litres is the average amount of water needed per person for dirinking and cooking each day
  
  
• One thousand litres per person per day on average is used by families with dishwashers, washing machines and garden sprinklers
  
  
• Between two and five litres on average is used by families that have to walk several miles to a stream or hand pump.
  

However, on a lighter note,

• Sweden saves half of the water normally used for toilet flushing by holding an annual 'Pee Outside Day'.
  
  
• Recycling works - There is the exact amount of water on Earth today as when the Earth was formed. Water is never totally consumed. It always recycles itself, in one form or another.
  
  
• Sense of smell - The elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away. Also, a dogs' nose is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.
  
  
• Holy water - The Catholic Herald, published in Great Britain, warns about the dangers of drinking holy water from religious shrines. While it may have curative powers in a religious sense, it seems that it also is a breeding ground for germs.
  
  
• Old Faithful - Old Faithful, the geyser in Yellowstone National Park, can spout water 170 feet in the air. That is as high as a 17-story building.
  
  
• Fancy a Big Mac?
  In Australia, a scientist put a Big Mac in a desk drawer and left it in there for a year to test the preservatives. When he pulled it out a year later, there was not a speck of mould on it. The only only thing different was that the buns were hard. He then microwaved it with a cup of water and ate it.
  
  
• There are almost 800 different brands of bottled water for sale in the United States.
  

http://www.newint.org/issue322/factfile.htm and http://www.comedy-zone.net/triviazone/world/page3.htm