Water: Will There Be Enough?

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6654
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Postel, Sandra
Journal:	Yes! Magazine
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Date:	2010
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6654
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s):	conservation energy water resources
Abstract:	"For at least three decades, Americans have had some inkling that we face an uncertain energy future, but we’ve ignored a much more worrisome crisis—water. Cheap and seemingly abundant, water is so common that it’s hard to believe we could ever run out. Ever since the Apollo astronauts photographed Earth from space, we’ve had the image of our home as a strikingly blue planet, a place of great water wealth. But of all the water on Earth, only about 2.5 percent is freshwater—and two-thirds of that is locked up in glaciers and ice caps. Less than one hundredth of one percent of Earth’s water is fresh and renewed each year by the solar-powered hydrologic cycle."

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