Freshwater - How much do we have?

[Why Syzygy]

http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/facts/e_quantity.htm

About 70% of the earth is covered in water.

The total amount of water in the world is approximately 1.4 billion km3, of which 97.5% is saltwater and 2.5% is fresh water.

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Of all fresh water not locked up in ice caps or glaciers, some 20% is in areas too remote for humans to access and of the remaining 80% about three-quarters comes at the wrong time and place – in monsoons and floods – and is not always captured for use by people. The remainder is less than 0.08 of 1% of the total water on the planet.

Expressed another way, if all the earth's water were stored in a 5-litre container, available fresh water would not quite fill a teaspoon.

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http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2005/01/31/umbra-freshwater/

[bullimiami]

1. the problem isnt fresh water exactly

its where the water is located and how much we are willing to exert / spend to process and move it.

so the real problem is availability and economics.

[FloridaPat]

2. Another problem is we keep polluting the fresh water we have.

Look at all the rivers in this country that you can't even drink the water from. I've seen red and orange creeks in Pennsylvania from mine run-offs. Pretty site. People are amazing - they love the make a mess of the nest they live in a wonder why they get sick.

[Why Syzygy]

3. I keep re-reading this article ..

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15406.shtml

There Is No Tomorrow
By Bill Moyers
Jan 31, 2005, 22:07
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So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming apocalypse.

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Once again .. RELIGION does us in.

It is oh so RELIGIOUS to trash our planet.
These freaks have no clue as to what their sacred scripture actually says about caring for the planet upon which we live.

They care more for the words of man than their so-called 'god'.

It is sickening and frightening.

I only wish there was such a thing as 'rapture'. And they would all go to another planet and trash that one. Leave planet Earth to those of us who cherish it.

[enki23]

4. canada has most of it

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