Water gets recycled countless times. In what's called the hydrologic cycle, water turns from liquid into gas and goes from oceans and lakes into the air where it forms clouds. Then the cycle begins all over again.

The fact that water gets recycled means that you might have bathed just last night in the same water a dinosaur drank 70 million years ago.

The human body is 66 percent water.

The earth is 80 percent water.

It takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.

It takes about 1 gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.

A person can live for a month without food, but only a week without water.

There are around 90,000 storm drains in Dallas that carry storm water-and anything it picks up such as fertilizers and motor oil-into the nearest creek, river or lake.

Each year, an estimated 18 million gallons of oil are improperly dumped in Texas by people who change their own motor oil.

If you pour one gallon of oil from your car down the storm sewer or dump it on the ground it can create an oil slick the size of two football fields and ruin a million gallons of fresh water-that's an entire year's supply of drinking water for 50 people.

The best way to enrich your soil is by turning tables scraps and yard waste into a compost heap. Mulching and composting keep grass clippings and yard waste out of landfills and storm drains, and both reduce the need for fertilizers.

Texas homeowners apply about 4 million pounds of pesticides to their lawns and gardens each year. An estimated one-third is wasted because it's not needed, and some of it gets washed into our water supply when it rains.

Grass clippings dumped in storm drains and creek banks are a major cause of water pollution. Grass and other yard wastes can increase or start new algae and weed growth in the water supply. Algae and weed growths create ugly, stagnant water causing a lack of oxygen that kills fish and other wildlife.