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Where'd
the Water Go?
Several
years ago we began to hear faint warnings about upcoming water shortages
on our planet. As time passed, those warnings became louder and
more prevelant, until they no longer were just warnings but became
undeniable fact.
Where
has all the water gone?
Our
water doesn't leave our planet. All the water we had centuries ago
is still here. When we use it for irrigating crops, drinking, washing
our clothes and our bodies, it eventually gets recycled back into
the rivers, lakes, oceans, and aquafirs.
But
scientific research and plain ol' observation indicates that water
levels in lakes and aquafirs are dropping. Glaciers are melting
and disappearing, and in some cases the loss has been quite dramatic.
So,
if all the water we use is being recycled, how do we account for
these proofs of a water shortage on our planet?
Here's
my theory: it's walking around on two legs.
Consider
that the adult human body is between 60% and 70% water. The average
weight of an adult human is 166 pounds, which means that each of
them is carrying around an average of almost 20 gallons of water.
Current
world population is over 68,000,000,000. If each person is a container
for 20 gallons of water that means over 136,000,000,000 gallons
of water is walking around this planet. Water that could go a long
ways toward alleviating the drought and water shortage that this
planet is now experiencing.
Yet
another great reason to practice birth control.
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