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10 Facts about Water that you didn't know about!

globalwarminglife.com — 10 interesting facts about water, the basis of all life.

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  • ledwyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess the 'facts' in this are from different sources because the following 2 fact appear to contradict each other.
    "#10 - 70% of the world’s water is frozen in the polar icecaps. "
    "#7 - Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is readily available and accessible for direct human usage. 97.5% of the earth’s water is salt water, thus undrinkable."

    So if 97.5% of the earth’s water is salt water, and 70% of the world’s water is frozen in the polar icecaps, then that means that either the ice caps are salty or this article is faulty. Here is a hint... the ice caps are NOT SALT WATER. FACT!
    The second point is that there are many of places in the world that use salt water, treated to remove the impurities including salt, for drinking water.

    "#8 - A human needs to drink 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive"

    This one brings this site into doubt as well. I don't think I have had many days that I have drank 5 GALLONS of liquid total. I have done a few +80km bike rides that might have drank an extra gallon of water, but those are not normal days.

    I'm not going to bother discussing the rest because they as just general number with no citing to their source. I can't put weight on statements of "FACT" that say things like "some large percent of people in some group of unnamed countries COULD have something happen by some round numbered year."
  • flourinthesun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahhahaha you're funny, too bad you're waaaaaay off!! Judging by your recent diggs, you appear to be one of those global warming skeptics that all of the world renowned scientists make fun of all the time, rightfully so. Maybe you should get off of your high horse and stop listening to the CEO's of various oil corporations and other monopolies.

    maybe you should check your facts and check out these websites:
    http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/HannaBerenblit.shtml
    http://www.lenntech.com/specific-questions-water-quantities.htm

    Mind your own business and don't judge a website just because you don't believe in it's cause. It's naive and quite ignorant.
  • ledwyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you for sighting your sources. If the list of facts had a reference to source, then I would not have made the first comment. The list had over simplified "FACTS". #10 differs greatly from the source which clearly states "FRESH" water.
    http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/HannaBerenblit.shtml
    If I knew where the list of facts were referring to my original comment would have been: "The word FRESH was left out of the fact #10 line.
    Now about #4. It is not directly global warming. It is a biology statement. If I could have a source as to where that "FACT" came from I would like to see how that it is possible to drink 4 gallons of water in a day.
    Looking at this website shows that the human stomach is just not that big:
    http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JonathanCheng.shtml
    For information from a non-ignorant source on hyper-hydration or "water poisoning" read this site:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_poisoning

    As to being 'judged' by my diggs, did you just look at the pages of my diggs about wind farms, 'alternate fuel race cars', 'how to build a low impact homes', and 'interesting insect pictures' and think "He's in big oil's pocket smokin' a cigar and kicking puppies"??
    I do have a few stories dugg lately about Suzuki's traveling circus. That has little to do with the environment and more about his acting like a traveling TV preacher.

    Digg is a site with comments, I am minding my business, and I was judging the globalwarminglife.com website on what it listed as "facts", even though 2 of them contradict, another is implausible, and many of the rest are vague without citing their sources.
    If you look up the definitions of naive and ignorant you might find that my comments are actually quite the opposite.

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