Shouldn't the Mississippi be a lot smaller?
I think that is why they didn't define the word "available." Weasel-work alert!
Quote: "Humans now use between 40% and 50% of all available freshwater running off the land. "
Shouldn't the Mississippi be a lot smaller?
After you drink a glass of water it comes back out as pee right???
Water cannot be destroyed. It can be turned into vapor etc but will come back sometime as water.
In the US after we use the water it gets run through sewage treatment plants and dumped back into the river. The rivers in the US are cleaner now than 20 years back.
The problem with 3rd world countries is their turds are pumped right back into their rivers without being processed...or they take a dump right into the river. Hence they have dirtier rivers and the fish are dying.
Its funny you say that. I am not a enviro-wacko, but I have heard stories about the silt build up and the pollution of the Mississippi lately. There are a few problems there.
In Fargo, we use about 10% of the Red River. When it's done flowing through our sewers, it is returned to the River CLEANER than when it came in.
Yup. We "use" our 10%, but the water is better for it.
"Shouldn't the Mississippi be a lot smaller?"
Excellent point, DannyTN! When you look at it that way, The Great Lakes should all have been drained by now. Just think of how much water Chicago uses from Lake Michigan on any given day. Millions of gallons.
Deforestation causes malaria and cholera ??? and unknown diseases that have not discovered yet are caused by deforestation also ???
That's amazing, they have discovered the cause of a disease before the disease itself has been discovered.
And how did the water become fresh in the first place?
Ever stop and wonder how many times, in the millenia that water has been on the planet, that a single drop of tap water from our kitchen faucet has been a drop of sweat, or urine, or sea water, rain water, steam, fog, spit, drool, any or all of the Great Lakes, any or all of the rivers of the world?