All the Water in the World.

[annabanana]

When you start to see politics coalesce around WATER, its availability, its potability and access to it, it is wise to remember that there is not much of it.

You always hear that 3/4ths of the worlds surface is covered by water, but when you see it all in a ball, you can see just how precious it is:



The small 'planet' is Jupiter's moom, Europa.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

[trumad]

1. Scary isn't it?

[annabanana]

2. I guess I hadn't figured into my impression

how shallow the oceans are.

[yesphan]

3. I'd like to see this done

with the breathable atmosphere.

[annabanana]

5. ORIGINAL breathable atmosphere? Or

how much we have left now?

[yesphan]

6. Perhaps both, for comparison.

[woo me with science]

4. DU Rec.

Water rights are being bought up all over the world by major corporations now. History shows that the price of water rises exponentially once major corporations are involved.

One and one make two. We face a grave problem in years to come, if we do not get our act together and fight back against this tide of rising corporate domination.

We think price gouging and speculation on gasoline are bad....Wait 'til they have control of the world's drinkable water.

Corporations have no conscience, simply by virtue of what they are. They have no morality, no ethics, no loyalty to anything except the bottom line. They exist to profit, and lives and suffering don't figure into the spreadsheets. That is why it is so dangerous to cede our government, our lives, and the lives of our children, to them.

[annabanana]

7. Thank you

I've seen occasional articles, here and there about this. Eventually the world may actually GET that "one world government" that conspiracy theorists are always talking about. I just hope that the good guys are running it.

[MineralMan]

8. That's a wonderful image. I'd like to see it

on the front page of every newspaper. Maybe it would make people think.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Except more water is made every day. More Earth is not. nt

[annabanana]

10. Umm I don't think so.

Rain goes down, does what we need it to do and then goes back up.

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. ???

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Show the quantity of fresh water and it gets even clearer. K&R. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Fascinating