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The recommended daily amount of drinking water for humans varies. [1] It depends on activity, age, health, and environment.In the United States, the Adequate Intake for total water, based on median intakes, is 4.0 litres (141 imp fl oz; 135 US fl oz) per day for males older than 18, and 3.0 litres (106 imp fl oz; 101 US fl oz) per day for females over 18; it assumes about 80% from drink and 20 ...
Most water in Earth's atmosphere and crust comes from saline seawater, while fresh water accounts for nearly 1% of the total. The vast bulk of the water on Earth is saline or salt water, with an average salinity of 35‰ (or 3.5%, roughly equivalent to 34 grams of salts in 1 kg of seawater), though this varies slightly according to the amount of runoff received from surrounding land.
Early recommendations for the quantity of water required for maintenance of good health suggested that six to eight glasses of water daily is the minimum to maintain proper hydration. [49] However, the notion that a person should consume eight glasses of water per day cannot be traced to a credible scientific source. [ 50 ]
Kelly Clarkson isn’t visiting any ghosts of Christmas past this holiday season.. On Thursday, Dec. 19, the Grammy winner, 42, appeared to throw shade at her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock in a ...
On Thursday, Dec. 5, Georgia Superior Court Judge David L. Cannon Jr. sentenced Farris, 64, to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years for killing her husband Gary Farris, an ...
It is known to cause surface water contamination, drinking water contamination, respiratory problems, ecosystem degradation and landscape damage. [146] It also leads to unsustainable water consumption in arid regions (1.9 million liters per ton of lithium). [ 146 ]
The next time you're left with a half-full bottle of wine after a party, don't pour it down the drain. We tapped two wine experts to give you their best tips for storing leftover wine.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.