Okay, me and my friend had an argument about weather water is a renewable rescource. When you drink water, some of it stays in your body, so less goes into the "river". Is it true that the water that stays into your body takes away from what is in the "river", and slowly, the water is all used up.
So i guess that poses the question- is water really a renewable resource.
2007-04-02 10:38:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yup. Because water is ALWAYS being "recycled". And sooner or later, every drop we take into our bodies- we return to the environment. The "issue" with water is NOT its availability (there will ALWAYS enough water for all the people on Earth), it's the matter of its distribution & cleanliness that is in question. Because by our polluting & wasting the clean water we have- we are "using up" the clean water we NEED- to survive! So water IS renewable- as long as we take the trouble to KEEP it that way... :)
2007-04-02 10:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its renewable because water doesn't stay in your body, otherwise you would get heavier if you keep drinking water. The water leaks out of your body all the time in all sorts of ways, some more fun than others.
What doesn't get returned through the sewer evaporates and joins clouds which puts the water back into rivers.
2007-04-02 17:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know a biologist that jokingly says the meaning of life is to move water from one place to another, usually when she's drinking beer, lol. Even the water "stored" in an animal will be released upon death. But the biggest thing is what an answerer above (Gene) said, that anything burning hydrogen produces water. Even your cells produce water; cellular respiration for all animals is turning sugar and oxygen into carbon dioxide, water and energy. Cellular respiration for plants does the opposite. But when you burn gasoline, one of the products of that combustion is water, you've probably seen it dripping out of the tailpipes of automobiles a few times, but usually the exhaust system is warm enough for it to be vapor. Same goes for almost anything you burn, with exceptions for things like magnesium fires. (I could be wrong about the chemical reaction in a magnesium fire, but I don't think they produce water vapor)
2007-04-02 18:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is renewable to a point, as is it is the function of the hydraulic cycle that is responsible for it to be. But as man toxifies and changes the hydraulic cycle, that question then can have a different answered.
2007-04-02 17:49:39 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely. Whatever water is held in our bodies evaporates back into the atmosphere after we die and become all hard and crunchy, and falls back down to Earth. Water is something we can't possibly run out of.
2007-04-02 17:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you breath you breath out water( breath in winter, foggy mirror). When anything with hydrogen in it burns (gasoline, paper etc, ) water is made. It's very renewable.
2007-04-02 17:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah of course when we drink water or whatever we do with it , we can always clean it and turn i back in a renewable source
2007-04-02 18:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by sinestersick 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, water is renewable.
Water doesn't really "stay" in your body, or you would just be heavier and heavier and heavier every day. You lose some in urine, lose some in perspiration, lose some in your breath, and so on.
2007-04-02 17:42:32 · answer #8 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋