Attend to other water woes, too
With the tsunami tragedy still fresh in our minds, perhaps many would be curious to know how much water there is on Earth. According to the National Geographic (Sept, 2002), if the Earth crust is smothered, the entire surface of the planet would be covered by 2682.24 metres of seawater. Put it a...
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| description | With the tsunami tragedy still fresh in our minds, perhaps many would be curious to know how much water
there is on Earth.
According to the National Geographic (Sept, 2002), if the Earth crust is smothered, the entire surface of the
planet would be covered by 2682.24 metres of seawater.
Put it another way, if all the seawater is evaporated, the Earth would be covered with more than 12.192 metres
of salt.
If so, it looks like there is enough water to go around, only that seawater is virtually not "usable".
Ironically though, when it comes to "usable" water, the amount is no more that three per cent that of the seas
and oceans. |
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| spelling | usm-336642017-04-27T04:11:28Z http://eprints.usm.my/33664/ Attend to other water woes, too Abd Razak, Dzulkifli HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc. With the tsunami tragedy still fresh in our minds, perhaps many would be curious to know how much water there is on Earth. According to the National Geographic (Sept, 2002), if the Earth crust is smothered, the entire surface of the planet would be covered by 2682.24 metres of seawater. Put it another way, if all the seawater is evaporated, the Earth would be covered with more than 12.192 metres of salt. If so, it looks like there is enough water to go around, only that seawater is virtually not "usable". Ironically though, when it comes to "usable" water, the amount is no more that three per cent that of the seas and oceans. 2005-01-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/33664/1/DZUL410.pdf Abd Razak, Dzulkifli (2005) Attend to other water woes, too. - Comment - New Sunday Times. |
| spellingShingle | HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc. Abd Razak, Dzulkifli Attend to other water woes, too |
| title | Attend to other water woes, too |
| title_full | Attend to other water woes, too |
| title_fullStr | Attend to other water woes, too |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attend to other water woes, too |
| title_short | Attend to other water woes, too |
| title_sort | attend to other water woes, too |
| topic | HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc. |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/33664/ http://eprints.usm.my/33664/1/DZUL410.pdf |