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WATER WORLD
Learning Objectives:
- recognize how water is distributed on Earth
- identify the various water resources on Earth
- explain how different activities affect for the
quality and availability of water for human use
- suggest ways of conserving and protecting
water resources
In what forms is
water available on
Earth?
How much
freshwater is found
at the Earths
surface?
WATER
- (chemical formula:
H2O) is a transparent
fluid which forms the
world's streams, lakes,
oceans and rain, and is
the major constituent of
the fluids of organisms.
As a chemical compound,
a water molecule
contains one oxygen and
two hydrogen atoms that
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are connected by
covalent bonds.
Concepts in a Box
Saline
Fresh
Earths
Hydrosphe
re
Hydrologi
c cycle
-
Domestic
Municipal
purposes
Irrigation
Power generation
Fisheries
Livestock raising
Industrial
purposes
Recreational
purposes
Oceans and
seas
Surface
water
Ground
water
Precipitati
on
Condensati
on
Evaporati
on
Evaporation is a type of
vaporization of a liquid that
occurs from the surface of a
liquid into a gaseous phase
that is not saturated with the
evaporating substance.
Water volume in
cubic miles
Water volume in
cubic kilometers
Percentage of
freshwater
Percent of total
water
321,000,000
1,338,000,000
96.54
5,773,000
24,064,000
68.7
1.74
Groundwater
5,614,000
23,400,000
1/69
Fresh
2,526,000
10,530,000
30.1
0.76
Saline
3,088,000
12,870,000
0.93
Soil Moisture
3, 959
16,500
0.05
0.001
71,970
300,000
0.86
0.022
Lakes
42,320
176,400
0.013
Fresh
21,830
91,000
0.26
0.007
Saline
20,490
85,400
0.006
Atmosphere
3,095
12,900
0.04
0.001
Swamp Water
2,752
11,470
0.03
0.0008
Rivers
509
2,120
0.006
0.0002
Biological Water
269
1,120
0.003
0.0001
Surface Water
- is water in a river, lake or fresh water wetland. It is replenish
naturally by precipitation and lost through discharge to the
oceans, evaporation, transpiration and seepage. Although
surface water system is only fed by natural input through
precipitation, the total quantity of water also depends on storage
capacity in lakes, wetlands and artificial reservoirs, the
permeability of the soil beneath these storage bodies, the runoff
characteristics of the land in watershed, the timing of the
precipitation and local evaporation rates.
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Uses of Water
- Use of water for
- Use of water for
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- Use of water for
- Use of water for
- Use of water for
domestic purpose
municipal purposes
irrigation
power generation
fisheries
livestock raising
industrial purposes
recreational purposes
Josefino Comiso
- Is currently a senior research scientist at the
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory of the
Goddard Space Flight Center.
- He co-authored the first satellite atlases on
sea ice that revealed for the first time the
true extent and spatial distribution of sea ice
in the Polar Regions.
- Generated the first detailed maps of surface
temperatures in the polar regions as derived
from thermal infrared satellite data. Those
include the role of sensible and latent heat
polynyas (Polyna is a Russian word
meaning an enclosed area of unfrozen water
surrounded by ice)
- Received his Bachelor of Science degree in
Physics from the University of the Philippines,
Masters Degree in Physics from Florida State
University and Ph. D. in physics from the
University of California in Los Angeles.