#WaterFacts

Here’s a wild bit of data:

“In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.”

From https://www.lenntech.com/water-trivia-facts.htm

When I’m thinking of the #WaterCycle, I almost always am focused on those parts that directly effect me, a human. So I’m thinking about #rain, about #evaporation, about #swimming, about #bathing. I’m seldom thinking about the #ocean. But to think about water is to think about the ocean. To water itself, its forays into land-based activities are a miniscule part of their existence.

I wonder if those two weeks as lakes and rivers are some kind of water vacation, once in a hundred years, where they get to see the world? Or is it that the ocean itself is so vast that moving through it as a water molecule is to be experiencing the wonder of a thousand million different things on an ongoing basis and time on land is some kind of dried up, confined penance?

Water is the ocean. The rest of it is an afterthought.

Three powerful updates on #ClimateJustice in the November 14 #TimeMagazine.

“The Selfish Case for Climate Justice” in the magazine (titled differently online)
https://time.com/6225469/climate-justice-inequity-self-interest/

Explainer about the terms “loss” and “damage” in climate justice.
https://time.com/6225496/what-is-loss-and-damage-climate-change/

“A River’s Day in Court” (in the magazine)
An #Indigenous community in #Ecuador fights to save its river from #GreenTransition fallout.
https://time.com/6224546/fight-to-save-ecuador-piatua-river/

#WaterFacts #WaterNews

#WaterFacts #WaterNews #WaterThoughts
Fascinating article about #TidalPower from #TimeMagazine in July.
“A rising tide lifts all the grids”
https://time.com/6189832/ocean-tide-energy/
“The idea is simple. First, tides. They rise and fall predictably, relentlessly driven by the gravitational pull of the moon. Those traits combined make the tide an attractive proposition for powering the grid. ‘The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow,’ notes Simon Forrest, the CEO of Scotland-based tidal-power producer Nova Innovation. But with tidal, he says, ‘we can tell you how much we will be generating two minutes past 3 in the morning a month from now, five years from now.’”
#imageAltText: Waves crash against the cliffs of the Orkney Islands, whose unique geography has made it a global hub for title power.