World Water Day: 2021 Valuing Water (Quiz your Water Knowledge)

It’s World Water Day, March 22, 2021 (www.WorldWaterDay.org).  

Time to test your water knowledge with a World Water Day Quiz
Some days we wish it would rain. Some days, we
wish it would stop. But every day, not just March 22, we should stop and
appreciate the importance of water. How important it is to out our being, to
our lives, to our living and to our existence.

Here is my Water Quiz for 2021. It is
surprisingly hard to develop because the numbers are all over the map. I have 15
multiple guess questions. Answer them all before starting to Google the
answers. For which questions do you have a high confidence in your original answer?
I’m trying to use current stats; different sources give different estimates. Sometimes old news is no longer accurate (maybe it never was accurate). I
generally used US and US units of measure unless specifically indicated otherwise.
Answers, scoring and sources will be forthcoming.

Celebrate the day. Go, drink a glass of H2O.

Cheers!



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