These days, the Department of Labor enforces roughly 180 worker protection laws, ranging from pay requirements to parental leave benefits. Other protections are supervised by agencies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Below are some of the key federal protections offered to employees.
About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in the ground as soil moisture and in aquifers, and even in you and your dog.
And freshwater is not as limitless as it seems, so wasting is it a no no. Here's how much water we use to make, well, the things we use. The water footprint of products comes from Imagine All the Water, a site created by the European Commission: Beef - 15,415 litres of water. Hamburger - 2,393 litres of water. Pizza - 1,216 litres of water.