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Water! Water! Everywhere... Learn how to work and play the conservation way! How much do you really know about water? Test your knowledge with our water trivia. Ready to learn more? Check out our water conservation tips and gardening tips to see how easy it is to save water and then make sure to share these tips with your family and friends.

Desert camels drink about 50 gallons of water at a time, and can go nine days without water. Camels' humps contain fat, not water.

It takes almost 49 gallons of water to produce just one glass of milk. That includes water consumed by the cow and to grow the food she eats, plus water used to process the milk.

	A healthy adult needs two quarts of water a day. Most people drink less than this.
	Eighty percent of the fresh water we use in the U.S. is for irrigating crops.
	The human brain is composed of 95 percent water; blood is 82 percent water; and the lungs are nearly 90 percent water.
	The first water pipes in the U.S. were made of hollowed-out logs.
	Over 90 percent of the world's fresh water is frozen and located in Antarctica.
	The world's rainiest place is Mt. Wai'ale'ale, Kauai, Hawaii. During an average year, there are only 15 dry days.
	The five Great Lakes form the largest fresh surface water system in the world.
	If all the water in the Great Lakes was spread evenly across the continental U.S., the ground would be covered with almost 10 feet of water.
	Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. It has a maximum depth of 1,645 feet. It holds of 40 trillion gallons of water—enough to cover the state of California to a depth of 14 inches!

Do one thing each day that will save water. Even if savings are small, every drop counts. Try these tips:

Don't let the water run while brushing your teeth. Take shorter showers. Try setting a timer for five minutes.

	Tell mom and dad if you notice a drippy faucet.
	Stop using the toilet as a trash can. Every time you flush a small bit of trash down the toilet, you waste gallons of water.

	Use one glass to drink from each day. This will cut down on the number of times your parents will run the dishwasher
	Wash your pet outside on an area of land that needs watering.
	Keep a container of drinking water in the refrigerator. Running faucets waste three to seven gallons of water per minute.
		Don't play in sprinklers. Running through water from a hose or sprinkler is fun, but wastes gallons of water.
	Tell your friends and neighbors and ask your parents to help out. Set a good example and see how many ways you can think of to help save water and protect the planet.
	Check out these sites for more fun water saving tips H2ouse.org http://epa.gov/watersense/kids/index.htm http:/www.epa.gov/kids/water.htm