NASA | Show Me the Water

Freshwater seems abundant, but when accounting for all the water on Earth, it's in limited supply. Just three percent of the water on our planet is freshwater. A majority of this water, about two percent of the world total, is contained in glaciers and ice sheets or stored below ground. The remaining one percent is found in lakes, rivers and wetland areas or transported through the atmosphere in the form of water vapor, clouds and precipitation. Rain and snowfall replenish freshwater sources, making it vital to know when, where and how much water is falling at any given time. Using NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement satellite, researchers can track precipitation worldwide and monitor levels from space.

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[Prxbh_Pb]

I am supposed to watch anime but my teacher called home saying I don’t work, it’s true tho. Lol 🤣🤣🤣😅🤣

[chatzy]

is school seriously making me watch this when I could be watching naruto instead??

[Dr_Hans_MTU]

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is missing from the map of the U.S. 1:29-1:45

[Hunter-khli]

We will never run out of fresh water because the oceans are continuously evaporating

[tokiponafan]

I watched this from Edgenuity

(I'm actually homeschooled lol)

[omargamer]

no tienen este mismo material en español?

[hachidefibonacci]

Water prices will rise. Learn to conserve water. Nation wise a country must lower it's water consumption.

[aristotlechange]

Black-holes make water, for the energy produced makes stuff, some beyond scientific imaginings, and water. Water is everywhere.

[sami-evqq]

Teacher used this for my geography lesson, good job!
For everyone else in my school it's samira 8.5

[syedabdan]

1 percent of freshwater some goes to lakes rivers etc. when Zamzam water comes hold my cup ( zam zam water is infinite)

[_nahlaesha_]

please dont waste water guys. its a request

[Skimox]

Confusing statistics have been listed in this video. You have interchanged the terms "percentage of water" and "percentage of fresh water".
Edit: Incorrect parts removed.

[fritz]

Whats the song in the background called?

[sullysdadever]

What I got out of that video is that if 2/3 of fresh water is locked in glaciers, then let's get at that! Go Go Global Warming!

[tgxkfinn]

Idk about you guys, but this is quite depressing....
I just hope someone finds a very cost efficient way to convert sea water into drinkable water on a large scale soon

[TheMohawkNinja]

My God... the view count says 1...

Also, I didn't think that the U.S. used so much water for power. That's quite impressive.

[SouthwesternEagle]

A good chunk of fresh water can be found here in Phoenix right now. The Valley is soaked!

[CorneliusSneedley]

I think what NASA is doing here regarding measuring global precipitation is a good thing, and that they certainly deserve all the funding they need. However. . .

While no doubt mathematically accurate, this video also seems to me to be rather sensationalistic, to say the least. The tiny percentages mentioned here fail to convey the vast quantities they actually represent. 

Let's give this a little perspective: For example, the rivers of the world, which according to this video account for only .006% of the available fresh water, pour literally billions of gallons of fresh water per _second_ into the oceans. Not per year, not per day, not per hour. Per second. The Mississippi alone can discharge well over five million gallons of fresh water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. This means that in about 12 seconds it discharges roughly the amount the entire USA uses in a day.

And saying we can't use the majority of the water that is apparently somehow locked into the oceans is somewhat misleading. No, we don't have any practical and cost-effective way to desalinate water at present, but the water cycle does this for us. Water evaporates from the oceans, leaving the salt and other minerals behind, and is redistributed on land as rain, which is where all those billions of gallons of fresh water come from. 

I'm sorry, but I think the information here is not being presented in the most accurate way, and  that videos like this are the main reason some people are constanty posting silly comments about how other people are "wasting water" in videos by leaving a faucet running for a few extra seconds, or by throwing water balloons.

Should we wantonly poison water? No. Should we freak out about the neighbor watering their lawn or letting their kids play in the sprinkler? Well, in places where water is in short supply due to drought, or where the population has outgrown the municipal water supply, probably. But otherwise, no.  People seem to have the idea that once we use water, it is gone, as if the drain in every sink contains a black hole. Into the drain, and poof, no more water. This is simply not the case. It is a closed system, with water we use making its way back to the oceans, and water from the oceans constantly being redistributed onto land.

Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the people who live in places where water is in short supply, but conserving water where it is plentiful does absolutely nothing to help people in places where it is not.

And this video makes it sound as though we have a very tiny amount of fresh water available to us. This is not really the case. At all.

And by the way, the way they are using the term in most of this video, it should be "fresh water, " not "freshwater." There are freshwater fish, but what we drink is properly called fresh water.

[shivaschimera]

Not gonna be able to harvest "space water" here in the states.
Too much prejudice for my liking.
-GOD.

[ChickenNEO]

1% is estimated to last 5-10 years depending on the use.