Drinkable Water, where it comes from and how much we actually have left.

 


Drinkable Water

Image source: https://worldwaterreserve.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/global-water-volume-fresh-large.jpg


Water surrounds our planet for about 70% of its surface.
Yet only 3% of all that water on earth is known to be drinkable.

Sadly most of this water is inaccessible locked away deep inside unexplored caves or stuck inside polar ice caps. But on top of that, most of that water is already too polluted to drink anymore, leaving us with only 0.4% drinkable water left known to humans. Which all has to be shared among 7 billion humans and other animals to survive. (World Atlas, 2018)

As we are drinking every day to hydrate ourselves, our sources of drinkable water becomes scarcer and scarcer, leaving us with less every year at an alarming rate as we might eventually run out of drink-water unless we can find or create a new, efficient, affordable source for our drinkable water.

Here we are, in 2021, still looking for better sources of drinkable water for a couple years now.
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How are we going to get more?



Julien Dupont

Source information: https://worldwaterreserve.com/water-crisis/percentage-of-drinkable-water-on-earth/

Comments

  1. XanderSeptember 15, 2021 at 7:49 PM

    I feel as you did a very good job on this blog. I never knew we had a environmental issue with drinkable water so I feel like this is a good topic to write about. Another part of t his blog that I liked was you did a great job explaining why there was only 0.4% drinkable water as a lot of it was stuck in places we can't get.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2021 at 1:18 PM

    woah, your picture really got my attention. its crazy to think that there is 70% of water on earth but so little of it is actually drinking water. i hope that scientists find a way to create more drinkable water. i think you did a great job explaining that we dont have a lot of drinkable water left.

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  3. ZacharySeptember 17, 2021 at 6:38 PM

    The picture can explain it all when you first look at it that picture is the best for your subject. It’s o crazy to think that we have all of this water around the world but we can’t drink it. I found it interesting of how much water we have drank in our life time to make up the percent of it we have on earth that we can drink.

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