My roomate always rins the shower and sick for hours and hours a day telling me that we wont run out of water. I learned that we can and will. I am not talking about ocean water because we cannot drink or bath in that, I am talking about fresh water. please help me **** him up and prove him wrong.
2006-10-05 01:35:57 · 8 answers · asked by Michael T 1 in Environment
we cant really run out of it unless the earth gets so hot that it all evaporates into space, which would take A LOT of heat and time.
more importantly, we can have a water shortage, because our demand for it is higher than the replenishment rate through evaporation/precipitation-so my vote is that your roommate is WHAACK for using way to much water.
2006-10-09 01:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok firstly running out is hard so state to a fact because it will rain and replenish rain supplies however in droughts you can run very low and will have to cut down water use.. this happens in different places from time to time including North America..
when I was younger we had one drought that was so bad they said not to water your lawns.. not to bath (short shower instead) and not to flush if you peed (if its brown flush it down - if its yellow let it mellow)
more recently there was another drought here where many crops were lost and people were forced to sell or slaughter animals because they couldnt get feed (hay) for them .... many horses were sold cheap that year because of high feed costs
the risks are that our fresh water will become increasingly scarce and more polluted. with more and more people being born to the planet than are dying the demands are increasing - every year we loose some water when people throw it in the garbage - eg. water is left in water bottles thown out or water is spilt and when cleaned up some goes into the garbage...never to be returned to the environment again...
2006-10-05 10:02:11 · answer #2 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, not can we , we are. Drought is destroying huge sections of Africa. Rain forests are being destroyed and that impacts rain fall. The oceans are absorbing the ice melt and turning it into salt water. While there may be places that have enough fresh water for people to drink, more and more of the Earth will not.
2006-10-05 08:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are under serious threat of running out of fresh water. A lot of money has been ploughed into research in Africa to either mitigate against further loss of fresh water or seek alternative sources of fresh water.
Please advise your friend that the threat is real!
2006-10-05 08:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is no and yes. It will run out if we start polluting it more faster than we can clean it. And no is that water evaporates into the air (which are clean water) and falls down as freshwater. If did more than the nature and what we can clean, there , of course, won't have fresh water for us to use anymore.
2006-10-05 08:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by Ifeelgood 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Populations outrunning water supply as world hits 6 Billion. This article is from 1999 from this web site this should help because you are correct.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1661
2006-10-05 08:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by MOVING 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
2006-10-05 08:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by Boo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
already are!
2006-10-08 20:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by Michael S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋