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Frustratedlady

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11. Not particularly.

Fri May 4, 2012, 09:10 AM

May 2012

How much of that 2/3s is contaminated by humans? Oil spills, nuclear disasters and dumping garbage come to mind. But, for now, I'm more concerned with protecting our ground water from contamination by fracking, for instance.

We are poor caretakers of our environment and that must change, no matter what portion of our world is water.

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Picture : All the earth's water in a single sphere compared to earth [View all] Ichingcarpenter May 2012 OP

like a golf ball to a basketball nt Mammone May 2012 #1

Fracking for Gas and Oil spills makes you think Ichingcarpenter May 2012 #2

Fracking PERIOD makes me worry about the sanity of humanity...(n/t) Moostache May 2012 #6

That's one hell of a water balloon! Nostradammit May 2012 #3

That can't be right. BlueIris May 2012 #4

I trust the source and the science Ichingcarpenter May 2012 #5

I did the calculations - had to use Wikipedia for my data. SwissTony May 2012 #18

Not only that, Confusious May 2012 #24

And yet it isn't Posteritatis May 2012 #22

Wow. That's not what I expected. harmonicon May 2012 #7

Wow, that is amazing Esse Quam Videri May 2012 #8

Me too... truebrit71 May 2012 #26

It's kind of misleading..... Uben May 2012 #9

Not particularly. Frustratedlady May 2012 #11

by percentage? qazplm May 2012 #14

only 3% of the Earth's water is fresh pokerfan May 2012 #23

K & R Champion Jack May 2012 #10

Only 3% is fresh water dickthegrouch May 2012 #12

very sobering Tumbulu May 2012 #13

well qazplm May 2012 #15

This clarifies a mis-thought on my part cbrer May 2012 #16

Interesting contrast but not surprising. k/r BadgerKid May 2012 #17

Jupiter's Europa has twice the amount of water Ichingcarpenter May 2012 #19

Of course the midwest would have the world's biggest water park. laconicsax May 2012 #20

Super graphic! Makes sense based upon.. edcantor May 2012 #21

However, there may be a lot of water much deeper muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #25