2006-09-20 04:57:00 · 9 answers · asked by anant m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
The Importance of Lakes-
1.The Earth is called "the water planet" because it has approximately 14,108 cubic kilometers of water. However, 97.5% of this water exists in the seas, and nearly all of the remaining fresh water is locked up in the Antarctic or Arctic ice caps or as groundwater.
2.1.Large lakes and reservoirs are used as drinking water supplies; the Great Lakes alone serve as the domestic water supply for approximately 24 million Americans, and many more Americans rely on man-made reservoirs and smaller lakes for their source of drinking water.
2.Lakes are used by humans for many commercial purposes, including fishing, transportation, irrigation, industrial water supplies, and receiving waters for wastewater effluents.
3.Aside from their importance for human use, lakes have intrinsic ecological and environmental values.
4.They moderate temperatures and affect the climate of the surrounding land.
5.They store water, thereby helping to regulate stream flow; recharge ground water aquifers; and moderate droughts.
6.They provide habitat to aquatic and semiaquatic plants and animals, which in turn provide food for many terrestrial animals; and they add to the diversity of the landscape.
Therefore, we can freely access only the water in lakes (0.007%) in rivers (0.002%). Of these, lakes are the best "available freshwater source on the Earth's surface." Lakes are valued as water sources and for fishing, water transport, recreation, and tourism.
2006-09-20 08:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Ritz 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
all the different solutions have benefit. Do you know how upset the fisherman may well be in the event that they left the places of the lakes off the maps. The ole timers ought to in all probability discover them with the aid of scent however the novices to the sport, survialists, and dumb bunnies might immediately revolt and exhibit particularly for the inclusion onto the maps. I keep in mind between the Waltons stating a revolt with the aid of the fishermen back interior the 1500's interior the colonies of the u . s ..
2016-10-15 05:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fresh water
2006-09-20 09:16:10 · answer #3 · answered by evolving_40 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They contain fresh water as opposed to salt water.
2006-09-20 05:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
provide water for different uses
2006-09-23 01:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by Tulceaboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gives us freshwater to drink from. Opossed to salty water that we cant drink.
2006-09-20 06:00:01 · answer #6 · answered by Island Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
replenish ground water
2014-07-24 04:25:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
our water suply.
2006-09-20 06:44:24 · answer #8 · answered by vicky l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to go fishing and to take a piss in.
2006-09-20 04:58:40 · answer #9 · answered by Andrew 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋