What You Need to Know About Water

From daily consumption to global shortages, these key facts show why water matters to everyone.

Why do we share water facts?

The more you know about water, the better equipped you will be to protect this vital resource.

Aquifers and subglacial lakes have stored fossil water for thousands of years

Glaciers are thick, solid bodies of ice that flow like rivers

Coconuts are found in tropical locations all over the world, but this wasn’t always the case

Thawing permafrost weakens land and releases greenhouse gases, worsening climate change

Cenotes are limestone caverns formed when rainwater trickles through limestone bedrock

Lake Vostok, buried under 4 km of ice in East Antarctica, may host unknown life

The Dead Sea has the lowest elevation on the Earth at 1,407 feet (428.9 meters) below sea level

A waterspout is a column of cloud-filled wind rotating over a body of water