A few fun water facts...
-Water is the only substance found on earth in three forms solid, liquid, and gas.
-A person can live more than a month without food, but only about a week, depending on conditions, without water.
- 66% of the human body is water; 75% of the human brain is water.
-Ancient Egyptians treated water by siphoning water out of the top of huge jars after allowing the muddy water from the Nile River to settle.
-Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine, directed people in Greece to boil and strain water before drinking it.
-The first United States water plant with filters was built in 1872 in Poughkeepsie, New York.
And...
You can swim, splash and dunk in it as Miss G and her Daddy did this morning.
Miss G & Mr. Reserved
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Ahh...Water
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