#2 in a series on water, water conservation, and Tampa Bay's water problems.
Nearly every Westerner I have ever known takes fresh water completely for granted. Therefore, I figured I’d start this series on water with some facts about pure water. Approximately 90% of your body weight is water. Water composes roughly 60% of an average human male body, 55% of the average woman and somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of your brain. The exact amountscan differ by several percentage points depending on individual human weight and health, but no matter what the exact percentage, every living human is mostly water. Water covers roughly 71% of earth’s surface. So, what is water?
This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2009.