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'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels (www.livescience.com)
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Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Where are they implying it went? Did it evaporate out into space? Was it absorbed into the earth's crust? Or is it just becoming unpotable - and if that, how does the change in earth's wobble that they use to make this claim imply that water has lost it's freshness?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

There are over 8 billion people on earth. People drink, wash, and shit in multiple litres of water daily. Crops require water. Livestock requires water. We slaughter several Trillion (with a T) livestock globally each year, there is A LOT of livestock. Industry requires water. Industry is trusted not to hoard, pollute or waste water. Water processing and sewage reclamation requires well funded public infrastructure. The hotter our atmosphere is, the more water vapour it will hold.

Just some ideas to get you started.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I always assumed that it was a matter of a lack of infrastructure to do water processing and reclamation, and or just it takes time for water to cycle back around to being fresh water. I never thought about how a shift in climate means the air holds on to more water.

Goes to show, despite it being bad news, you really do learn something new everyday.