{"id":55,"date":"2006-10-03T07:40:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-08-04T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:07:46","slug":"water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another science survey and yet another dose of bad news<\/a> about the public’s understanding of science and the world around us:<\/p>\n

When the results of its latest survey came back, officials at the American Museum of Natural History were hardly astonished.<\/p>\n

The survey was trying to find out how much people know about water. Turns out, not much.<\/p>\n

Fewer than half of those surveyed answered correctly when asked how much of the planet is covered in water (about three-fourths). Hardly anyone knew how much of that water is drinkable (about 1 percent).<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time a survey has shown how little the public knows about science; the results of one museum survey in 1994 were so woeful, museum President Ellen Futter barely raises an eyebrow anymore.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t been surprised by the public’s reaction since our first survey, when I saw that 35 percent of the adult population thought that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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