7 Things You Didn’t Know About Water (or maybe you did!)

A superb blog entry here from the World Bank data blog which provides some fascinating statistics on the world's water supply.

The 7 insights provided alongside supporting illustrations and infographics are that:

Water covers 70% of the Earth, but it’s only 1/1000th of the Earth’s volume
97.5% of the world’s water is saltwater, just 2.5% is freshwater
There are about 6 olympic swimming pools of accessible freshwater per person
Latin America has 5-times as much freshwater per capita as East Asia
Less than 50% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s rural population have access to an improved water source
70% of the world’s withdrawn freshwater is used for agriculture
Inadequate water supply and sanitation results in $260 billion of global economic losses annually