The earth is surrounded by oceans. According to a research, about 70 percent of the earth is covered with water. But most of these are salty, which is not fit for drinking. We all drink water by extracting it from underground. That means we use groundwater. But this too is ending very fast. It is being said that the earth is drying up. One day all the water will be exhausted. But is it really so? How much water is there inside the earth? Scientists have told about this. Is the water crisis going to end? Know the reality.
According to the report of Live Science, scientists from the University of Saskatchewan conducted a research in 2021. Wanted to know how much water is hidden in the soil or rocks under the earth’s layer. It was discovered that the oceans remain the largest reservoir of water on the planet, containing approximately 312 million cubic miles of water. But there is no less water inside the earth also. The Earth’s core contains about 43.9 million cubic kilometers of water, which is about a quarter of the total water present on Earth. Much less water (about 6.5 million cubic miles) is hidden in the ice of Antarctica. The most important thing is that most of the water present under the earth is potable.
present inside the earth for centuries
The report published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters states that the water we draw from the ground has been present inside the earth for centuries. We extract a lot of water from it every year, but it gets recharged through rain and other sources. A report was published in Nature Geoscience Journal in 2015. It was estimated that the upper 2 kilometers of the earth’s crust is filled with 22.6 million cubic kilometers of water. But now the report has come, it has been said that it has increased to 23.6 million cubic kilometers.
Solution to water problem possible
Research author Grant Ferguson told Live Science that it is mostly fresh water. It can be used for drinking and irrigation. On the contrary, the deep groundwater is salty. In some places it is quite salty. But it is not as bad as the water of the oceans. He said that if more research is done on this, then the water problem on earth can be solved.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 18, 2024, 16:47 IST
