Will it be just one big dry desert? Did Nastrodomis that?
2006-09-17 14:23:34 · 18 answers · asked by sonny 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The earth will not but humans may run out
of usable clean water.
2006-09-17 14:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by albert 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The oceans are not decreasing.
It is only the massive usage of water from river catchments that is causing trouble.
The solution in the long run is desalination of the sea. The Saudis do it, but then they have masses of oil to run the power hungry desailnation plants.
If nuclear power ever became totally safe and a worldwide power source, desalination would be a reasonable option. Then there would be more fresh water than we would ever need.
And its great for washing with. Because it is basically pure distilled water, your shampoo goes a long way.
been there, done that.
2006-09-17 16:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-27 20:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by allotey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well drinkable water anyways. The central US currently gets a lot of its water from an aquifer that used to run from Canada all the way past Mexico. Due to our overpumping of it for agriculture its going to dry up in the night too distant future. Add in decreased snowmelt and changing rainfall because of global warming and we are in some deep ****.
2006-09-17 14:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by quickblur 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the earth will not run out of wter beacuse it is not leaving the planet. even the water we use and consume evetualy either evaporates or is filtered through runoff. even if it is human waste we could always clean it. that is what your cities water treatment plant is doing right now, they filter the waste out of it . then it is returned to the canals where it returns to larger badies of water. what waste is left settles to the bottom and the rest may be used directly or is evapoated into rain. still want to go out in the rain?
2006-09-17 16:47:40 · answer #5 · answered by bishop 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. The Earth will not run out of water, not on a planetary scale anyway.
2006-09-17 14:26:31 · answer #6 · answered by damndirtyape212 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sequence of climatizing deserts are possible but energy would be required or a change of cycles in the world's weather map would be necessary for the sequence to quantify. Could it be a nuclear war? Or maybe a climatical shift? Astroids? I would anchor Nostradamus as causing it reclusive.
2006-09-18 00:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The world's already running out of water. Many regions are experiencing droughts (17 million people in China are without enough water for their daily needs).
But rest assured: as water becomes a more valuable commodity, the mega-rich corporations like Exxon-Mobil, BP, and Halliburton will find a way to sell it to municipalities so they make the big bucks and citizens either pay the price or go thirsty. -RKO-
2006-09-17 14:30:09 · answer #8 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
It is my understanding that the amount of water on Earth doesn't change, it just changes form. Steam, ice, water, condensation, etc.
2006-09-17 14:29:18 · answer #9 · answered by gtkaren 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
no, 75 % of the earth is water.
2006-09-17 18:12:14 · answer #10 · answered by cac l 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋