well..not really global warming but still.
Alot of people are saying the world is runing out of water..
i dont really belive in that...considering 70 sumthing percent of the world is water.. dont give me a "salt water cant be drunk" thing..because you can make it drinkable.. but thats besides the point.
so if were really "runing out of water" i say we do nothing about this..i say we dont conserve water..because apparently the ice caps will melt and the earth will flood.
so if we waste water...theres really no problem..because we're going to get alot more of it when the ice caps melt.
so waste water...if we waste enough..mabey the ice caps melting will even it all out eh?
if you disagree with me..
dont give me a, "your an idiot that would never work" answer
give me a "your an idiot, that would never work, BECAUSE" answer.
2007-09-20 10:10:57 · 8 answers · asked by leroy jenkins 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
uhh...no it dosnt suck..wait..hold up..
did you read this?
2007-09-20 10:15:23 · update #1
...seriously...read it?
you gave me an answer...but its not an answer to my question..
ill sum it up here if you dont know what the hell it is..
"If we waste water. will the ice caps melting really flood the earth, or will it even out because of the water that was wasted" explain your answer.
2007-09-20 10:17:54 · update #2
swammy..you say that the wasted water will raise the sea level and flood the earth right..or at least the coast cities,
ITS THE SAME AMOUNT OF WATER!
if the wasted water would flood the earth, then the ice caps melting would flood the earth, because ITS THE SAME AMOUNT OF WATER, so that entire point you made has no meaning.
let me put it to you a way a 3rd grader can understand.
put water into a bowl, put some ice cubes in it, when the ice cubes melt, does the water level rise?
no! because the ice raised the water level to begin with, it stays the same when the ice melts.
and if salt water was the only water we had, you think people would mind paying to drink it!?!
oh...im not going to pay five dollars for somthing i need to survive id rather die than spend this!?!
your an IDIOT!
NOBODY WILL CARE HOW MUCH IT COSTS IF YOU NEED IT TO SURVIVE!
2007-09-20 10:34:15 · update #3
sounds like a good idea ;) u should put WASTE WATER posters all over the place lol tell me how that turns out lol
2007-09-20 10:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question has left many confused because you worded it in a confusing way. Water is conserved (water vapor can't escape into outer space) but the quality of water is degraded. And while drinking water can be produced from saline water, it costs a lot of energy, which can be utilised for better purposes. Also, the 'free' resource is now becoming an expensive resource.
When the ice caps melt, the molten water will mix with the sea water and the salinity of sea will marginally come down but the water will be too saline for consumption. And where would you throw the wasted water? Into the sea only. The level of the seas would go up and that would lead to submergence of several coastal cities.
You have mixed two areas, one of global warming (by the burning of carbonaceous fuels) and water conservation (energy management) and your solution is a bigger problem!
2007-09-20 10:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if the melted ice caps were somehow saved as fresh rather than salt water, it still takes a lot of energy to make it safe to drink and transport it to wherever it is that you plan to waste it!
Even rainwater is generally unsafe to drink until steps are taken to remove the 'cooties' from it.
The 'running out of water' you heard about refers to running out of SAFE, cheap drinking water.
2007-09-20 10:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by tinfoil666 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those ice caps aren't sitting over a huge bucket, once the melt they will mix with the salt water.
also, it takes a lot of resources to distill water. as a capitalist country, few private companies are willing to waste resources distilling water when, for a cheaper price, they could get access to a freshwater source.
2007-09-20 10:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the main problem is all the water in the ice caps that melts will become salty, and currently the only methods for purifying salf water are very costly
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2007-09-20 18:54:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will be no fresh water, only saline water. From http://www.euwarm.org
2007-09-20 10:14:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I.... don't get it.. But I DO believe that Global Warming is destroying our world.
2007-09-20 10:15:31 · answer #8 · answered by ღJess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋