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• The amount of water available to each person in the South of England is less than that in some Middle East countries

• 25% of your energy bill goes on heating water

• It takes 148,000 litres of water to produce a new car

• The WWF reports that the area of land and water available to sustain an individual is currently 2.1 global hectares. But at the moment each person in the UK is using what amounts to 5.2 global hectares.

• Two thirds of the water each person in Britain uses is embedded (water used in the production of goods) in products imported from abroad

• On average a person drinks about 60,000 litres of water in their lifetime

• You can live for three weeks without food but only three days without water