14 May 2012
The World’s Water- An amazing image.
Posted by Dan Satterfield
This image courtesy of the USGS:
Some interesting facts I looked up regarding water:
Virtually all of that blue blob is salt water and not drinkable. Only 2.5% of that blue marble of water s fresh and 70% of that 2.5% is frozen ice in Greenland, Antarctica, or on high mountaintops. Only .007% of Earth’s water is easily accessible for humans, a fact that I made much of when taught two semesters of Environmental Science.
Without doubt, drinking water will be the story of the next century. Want some more surprising facts- go here.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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Rats! You turned me on to this blog and I spent the last two hours skimming through them. Now I gotta get me a fancy rain gauge and a whosiwhatzits and a thingmajig to go along with all the other stuffs.
Eye opening facts about the future of our drinking water!