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The Importance of Water

Water is important because:
People need water to stay alive
Animals need water to stay alive
Plants need water to stay alive
All of the above

What percentage of the human body is water?
About 66%
About 6%
About 26%
About 96%

How much water does it take to produce one serving of milk?
6 gallons
16 gallons
45 gallons
65 gallons

How many gallons of water does it take to grow enough wheat to make one loaf of bread?
5 gallons
15 gallons
55 gallons
115 gallons

The Earth has supplies of both fresh water and salt water. How much of the world's water is fresh water?
97%
50%
3%
less than 1%

Of the total water on our planet, how much of it is fresh water in liquid form?
97%
50%
3%
less than 1%

People can't get the water they need from salt water because:
It tastes really gross
It makes you thirstier
The body can't process that much salt
Desalination doesn't work

It's possible to remove the salt from saltwater in a process called desalination. Why don't we use desalination in the Irvine Ranch Water District?
We can't figure out how it works
It's too expensive
We're too far from the ocean
No one wants to drink ocean water

Southern Califormia's climate is:
a really cool place to live
semi-arid
semi-tropical
none of the above

The average annual rainfall in the Irvine area is:
130 inches
30 inches
13 inches
1.3 inches

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