- The Amazon river holds up to 2/3 of all earth’s flowing water.
- Also it is 270 m wide when it reaches the sea.
- At a length of 6448 km it crosses all around Brazil.
- A wide range of wildlife includes the boto, or Amazon river dolphin.
- Due to global warming, 4 pacific islands have already disappeared.
- The territory of Finland is more covered in lake than anywhere else.
- Every minute the sun evaporates 11000 bottles of water from the Nile.
- The Nile is 1.6 times longer than the Niger.
- Victoria falls of the Zambezi River falls 128 km into the gorge below.
- Local people call it
the smoke that thunders.
- The United Arabs obtain 80% of their water supply by using desilating sea water.
- In Kiawait, in the 1970s they built water towers. The middle one has 400 l of water.
- In 1958,Masrawy had their highest yearly rainfall, 26000 l.
- During July,the monsoon season brings Yangon as much rain as London gets in a year.
- The Aral sea has shrunk 90% since 1960.
- The remaining water has became salty and killed all the fish in it.
- The great barrier reef stretches more than 2000 km off the coast of Queensland.