1) Water consists of three atoms, 2 hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom, that are bonded together due to electrical charges.

2) Water moves around the earth in a water cycle. The water cycle has five parts: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration and surface run-off.

3) In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.

4) Water regulates the earth's temperature.

5) Water is the only substance that is found naturally on earth in three forms: liquid, gas, solid.

6) Frozen water is 9% lighter than water, which is why ice floats on water.

7) It doesn't take much salt to make water "salty." If one-thousandth (or more) of the weight of water is from salt, then the water is "saline."

8) Freshwater animals are disappearing five times faster than land animals

9) All known forms of life depend on water.

10) One gallon of gasoline can contaminate 1 million gallons of ground water.

11) 2/3 of the world's fresh water is Ice.

12) Fresh water makes up only 3% of the water on the Earth's surface.

13) On average molecules of water spend only 11 days in the air before condensing into water droplets that return to earth as rain or snow.