America has more faucets and toilets than any other country. Flushing a toilet uses about three gallons of water. It takes about 150 gallons of water to produce a newspaper. In the United States, water costs about 45 cents per 1,000 gallons. Public water utilities supply about 80 percent of the U.S. population.
Most cities use ground water, but most large cities depend mainly on surface water sources.
Our kidneys can't handle the salt. Sea water has about seven times the acceptable salt level. We would die of dehydration because our kidneys could not expel the excessive salt. The water in your body is billions of years old. It has been recycled millions of times.