Well, yesterday's plan was to study like crazy for the impending doom this week brings, but around 6pm I was down for the count feeling sick. Laid in bed/ went to bed early and am feeling much better today. Today's plans are nothing too crazy. I'm gonna drive out to Nebagamon, bake 2 cakes, and then come back and study more.
Today's Environmental Fact:
We each (the average American) uses about 12 thousand (yeah 12,000) gallons of water EVERY year.
What does that mean?
Well, there are 3,193,239,727,500,000 gallons in Lake Superior. If you were to block off all tributaries leading into the lake and cut off all water added by precipitation and have the US only use water from the 3rd largest lake in the world (by volume)... it would take how long to drain the lake?
Let's start the math here..
According to the US Census Bureau there are 313,494,747 people in the US as of right now.
In one year those people will use 3,761,936,964,000 gallons of water.
Divide the volume of water in Lake Superior by the volume of water the people in the US will use in one year and you get 848 years until the lake is drained.
BUT...
Population is growing every day. After five minutes, I have refreshed the population clock for the US, and it's already up another 20 people. IF this continues (which it will) there's no way it would take that long to drain the lake.
Freshwater is the most scarce and difficult to reach natural resource and yet, we rely so heavily on it that if it were to disappear.. our entire world would come to a halt. People would starve, and people would die of dehydration.
Moral lesson of the day?
Reduce your water consumption.
Always,
H.Eilene
3,193,239,727,500,000
We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year
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