H2O Statistics

• 40% of America's rivers and 46% of America's lakes are too poluted to fish, swim, or mantain an aquatic life. 
• Every year, one American produces over 3285 pounds of hazardous waste.
• Polluted drinking waters are a problem for about half the world's population.
• Each year there are about 250 million cases of water-based diseases, resulting in roughly 5 to 10 million deaths.
• 1.2 trillion gallons of storm water, industrial waste, and untreated sewage are discharged into US waters yearly.
• The Mississippi River- which drainsthe lands of nearly 40% of the continental United States- Carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year. The resulting dead zone in the Gulf each summer is about the size of New Jersey.