Water uses

• Commercial water use includes fresh water for restaurants, office buildings, and other commercial facilities, and private and public institutions.
• Domestic water use is perhaps the foremost important daily use of water for many people.
• Scientists estimate that each one of us needs almost 2.5 liters of fresh drinking water daily in order to live a healthy life.
• Each of us needs 260 liters of water for washing, cooking and other activities.
• Industrial water use is a valuable resource to the industries for such purposes as processing, cleaning, transportation, dilution, and cooling in manufacturing facilities.
• Irrigation water use is water artificially applied to farm, orchard, pasture, and horticultural crops, as well as water used to irrigate grasslands, chemical application, crop cooling, harvesting, and for the leaching of salts from the crop root zone.
• Livestock water use includes water for stock animals, feed lots, dairies, fish farms, and other nonfarm needs.
• Health or Medical water use refers to clean water for drinking is essential for proper functioning of our bodies.
• Soil water is held in pores spaces between soil particles.
• ground water is found in places where the earth materials are saturated throughout the year.
• The hydrosphere is the layer of water that covers the earth.
• The rest of our fresh water comes from the hydrologic or water cycle that feeds our rivers and streams.
• Salt water comprises the 97% of all the water on our planet and the freshwater is the other 3%.
• The water cycle is powered by solar energy.