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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:06 pm
I am tired of hearing people complain about the water situation. It is insane. Maybe there is like no fresh water on the planet, but that percent is also crazy because the oceans is where most of the water is and it can't be considered "fresh" because of the salt in it. The idea of fresh water is also up for discussion because who decided what the word "fresh" even means?
my dictionary says:
3 (of water) not salty.
• pleasantly clean, pure, and cool
Pure H2O? Does not exist in nature.
Also, remember, water goes no where. It evaporates, goes to the clouds, then comes down in rain or snow.
Also, remember, the ice caps are melting which sends more water to the oceans.
Also, remember, we clean water. Poland Springs is not right out of the "Spring" it comes from a factory.
Discuss:
Your ideas on water and lack of it
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:29 pm
I wanted to focus on the issue of where water goes and what it is. The water cycle is a continuous loop of reshaping energy, while many lakes are the result of massive ice sheets, breaking away from the poles and melting and scraping across land. Where did All that come from? Where did that start with? Well...
Science has made us lucky enough to know that as the earth formed, hydrogen and oxygen, two fairly common elements in the universe, were present at the time. Not only that, but at the time of the Earth's initial formation, many comets/meteors were present in our newly forming solar system, meaning the earth got pelted. And what do comets bring with them? Why their tails... which we know consist of ice.
Energy in theory cannot disappear. It transforms or combines with something else.
To cut the lecture aside, i'll get straight to a vision of the future- If we do survive long enough as to have no DRINKABLE lake/river/rain water, we will do what we've already done: Recycle and re-filter water. I know that In Australia, they have factories that literally recycle the same water you flush down your toilet, and turn it into drinking water. I imagine right now a world like the one created in the crummy movie with Kevin Costner- Waterworld... people just floating around on an ocean. We'd probably be the same, except we'd have some sort of mobile filtering systems, always on the go.
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