Earths water drying up.?

Question

If all the ice in the Arctic melted, the Earths lands would flood.But then the water would evaporate and the earth will be dry with only limited natural water springs around the world that would also dry up with lack of rain.So my question is,How long to we have?

Answer 1

it is coming on us faster then we think=problem is a lot still don't believe it=we have until the rapture

Answer 2

No water will be lost in the universe.It only changes form as a result of the mismanagement by man.Now that we are gradually beginning to managing the situation, the system will recover and rain will begin to fall normally and the earth shall be the same again.Every thing will never dry.

Answer 3

Another one of those good logic bad conclusion things.

Answer 4

you      are way of

the earth cannot  loose water we are a closed system ,what will happen is thesweet cwater or potable water which isnow    inthe ice becomes lost  in the salty seas

25% of the planets surface is land

75%of the surface is water and it is rising

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97%of the Earths water is salt

fresh water is only 3% of all the Earths water

most of it is beyond out reach

now much ice is melting and running into the seas fresh water lost for ever.

STORAGE or Location of % of the fresh water

ice and glaziers 74%

groundwater 800 meters + 13.5 %

groundwater less than 800meters 11.o%

Lakes 0.3%

soils 0.006%

Atmospheric in circulation 0.0035%

rivers 0.03%

frozen land or permafrost is not included and represent an unavailable storage of 40%

so of the 3% about 11.6 ,is easily available to us ,in rivers, lakes and ground water surface aquifers,more and more of this is becoming contaminated

Answer 5

Take a glass partly filled with water and ice, cover it tightly with several layers of plastic wrap, and put it outside on a warm day. What happens? First, you'll notice that the ice melts. You should also see water droplets form on the outside of the glass. Last, you'll notice water droplets form on the plastic wrap covering. However, no matter how long the glass sits in the sun, the water will never completely disappear as long as the plastic wrap remains tightly over it and the glass does not break. Yes, the water level may drop a small amount, but will then remain steady.

The reason is that you have created a closed system; nothing, except energy, enters or leaves the system. The energy warms the ice, causing it to melt and mix with the water. The water droplets outside the glass actually come from the air surrounding the glass, not the water inside. And the water droplets on the plastic wrap come from water that evaporates and cools on the plastic wrap. The air in the glass can only hold so much water vapor before it has to give some back.

Earth is similar to this closed system; the atmosphere prevents water vapor from escaping into space, similar to the plastic wrap. If it were possible to heat all the water on earth, the air would become saturated with vapor that it would have to give some back. So fear not, we will not be drying up anytime soon.