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The Search for Fresh Water

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Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth (Drinking Water, 2008). It is made up of saltwater. This water is not useable for humans to drink or use for food. Even though it is not a water source for organisms or humans to drink, it has it own importance in the world. It contains organism sources for food, like fish, lobsters, squid, and clams to name a few (Why Oceans, 1998). The ocean helps with the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which helps lower climate change. Climate change is a continuing problem humans are dealing with today. Humans dispose different substances like chemical weapons, and radioactive material into the ocean that is banned on land. River pollutants are washed into the ocean, to help provide cleaner rivers (Why Oceans, 1998). The world is only made up of 3% freshwater (Why Ocean, 1998.) Almost two-third of fresh water is not even liquid format. It is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. Ground and surface water consist of other fresh water. Ground water provides for almost half of the world’s drinking water. It is also important for our agriculture, industrial and environment uses. Surface water consists of rivers, swamps and lakes. It provides for a small factor of drinking water but it is still important (Drinking Water, 1998). Water is recyclable (Drinking Water, 1998.) The water that is here today is the same water that was here million of years ago. Water goes through a cycle called hydrological. Water comes from the atmosphere to the Earth and continues to repeat the process. It uses energy from the sun and gravity to make the process happen. The sun creates atmospheric vapor to the atmosphere and returns it to the earth through snow, ice and rain. Water is in form of atmospheric vapor for about 0.0001%. The Worlds water is in from of vapor at some point. Most of the evaporation happens from the ocean. This creates a cooling effect for the earth’s climate. It recycles many times during the year (Drinking Water, 2008). “There is no shortage of water on earth,” (Drinking Water, 1998). As mentioned before, only 3% is drinkable which causes water shortages in many countries. Every human body needs around 20 to 50 liters of water each day for drinking, cooking and to bathe. There is over bi

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