Did you know 1
... that the National Rural Water Association represents more than 26,242 water and wastewater utility members?
... that "water bears" are small, segmented animals that can survive in a dehydrated state for nearly 10 years?
Did you know 2
... that there are at least 15 different forms of crystalline ice?
... that water memory is a controversial homeopathic concept, which holds that water is capable of containing "memory" of particles dissolved in it?
Did you know 3
- ... that the Cassington Canal was built by the Duke of Marlborough to connect his lands to the River Thames and the country's network of canals and rivers?
- ... that Winshill Water Tower was guarded by Boy Scouts during the First World War?
Did you know 4
- ... that DreamWorks Water Park, advertised as North America's largest indoor water park, will include a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) wave pool and 40 water slides?
- ... that the Seven Wonders of the Waterways include the UK's longest and highest aqueduct, its longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel, and the world's only swinging aqueduct?
Did you know 5
- ...that the Dethridge wheel, invented in Australia in 1910, measures the flow of water delivered to farms for irrigation?
- ...that the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in south San Francisco Bay?
Did you know 6
- ...that Canadian water slide manufacturer ProSlide's first water roller coaster that uses linear induction motors to propel its riders uphill opened at WhiteWater World in Australia in 2006?
- ...that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
Did you know 7
- ...that total dissolved solids, a class of water pollutants, is useful as an indicator of aquatic biota health, yet harmful to the plumbing of aquaria and hot tubs?
- ...that a Navy shower is a method of showering that conserves both water and energy?
Did you know 8
- ...that the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903?
- ...that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
Did you know 9
- ...that the famous Wallace fountains in Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor?
- ...that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?
Did you know 10
- ...that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?
Did you know 11
- ...that the water crisis is the ongoing worldwide shortfall of drinking water, sanitation and ecological support that finds 1.1 billion people without safe water?
- ...that the oldest ornamental water tower in the world is the Louisville Water Tower, which is even older than the famed Chicago Water Tower?
Did you know 12
- ...that the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul?
- ...that former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
Did you know 13
- ...that water from Tin Brook was diverted to create the first canal in New York history?
- ...that Princess Louisa Maria Teresa was called by a Royal Stuart Society paper the "Princess over the Water", an allusion to the title King over the Water?
Did you know 14
- ...that in China, access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
- ...that Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
Did you know 15
- ...that one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world was being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India?
- ...that Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?