why water is known as a wonder liquid?
Water is called a wonder liquid because of the following reasons:
Water is the most essential component of life . All cellular processes take place in a water medium.
71% of earth is covered by oceans that contains 98% of the total water.
Land contains only 2% of the total water. A major part of it(1.374%) occurs as ice caps and glaciers , 0.602% as groundwater and only 0.006% as surface water.
Degradation of the quality of water is called water pollution. The causes of water pollution are chemicals release from industry , urban sewage and pesticides.