Ogallala Aquifer Only 20 Years Of Water Left >>> Stuff I Didn't Know

[Chan790]

41. There is so much of it, that it may as well be considered a infinite resource like sunlight.

Let's put it this way...70% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Of that 70%, something like 98% of that water is oceanic salt-water. Calling ocean water finite is like calling electrons or sunlight finite...they ultimately are...but for all intents and purposes, they're really not except on a gigantic eons-length scale.

The water we're taking is not destroyed...it's recycled ultimately. Water comes out of the ocean, water is desalinated, water is used...and 2-200 process-steps down the line, that water evaporates and falls as rain or pours into the oceans eventually as clean as it came out of the ocean typically.

If we ever get to the point where our water-taking for desalination into potable water is even noticeable...we have a much bigger total-global-extinction-level problem. The Earth would be as fucked as Mars or Venus...incapable of sustaining any life...and we can safely say that would be 1000s if not 10000s or 100000s or even 1000000s of years from now...and probably never.