What if it Work?
#77
What if We Had No Water?
What if it Works?
Intro
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So wow ... I know What if it Work? Has been inactive lately, but let me tell you, it's been crazy. I've been busy for a good 2 1/2 years with high-school, but now with the ugly quarantine in everybody's lives, I've realized I need to entertain others. So here we go, and sorry for being inactive. Who knows? After all this maybe I'll still continue this amazing site.
Now, where were we a few years ago ... Oh, that! What if there was no water? I wrote the idea for this post three years ago and I think it's still relevant for what's happening right now. Let me explain ...
What we think it would be like?
So let's start with the basics. Water. What is it? We use it every day, to drink, to swim, it's in our food, it makes up most of the world. But what is it? Well, it's something made of the chemical elements. It has hydrogen and oxygen. The famous combination of H2O. Two Hydrogen and one oxygen. It's can be in gases, liquid, and solid states. It's the one thing that we need the most, or else we can't live.
Now technically water is also tasteless. If you think you can taste the water it's because it's not pure water. Water itself has no taste, but if it's tap water, for example, it does. Why? Well, tap water, has sources that are often treated with fluoride to protect tooth enamel which can change the taste. Also, the type of pipe can affect the taste.
For example, Aquafina. Known for its brand of purified water, is pretty much the top bottled water company in the world, and it's produced by PepsiCo. Anyways, Aquafina water goes through a seven-step HydRO-7 filtration process that supposedly makes it the purest water ever, still has taste. Why? Because there's still some minerals in it that cause it to have its taste.
Because of its how important it is, water has played an important religious and philosophical role in human history for a long time. In the 6th century BCE, Thales of Miletus regarded water as a fundamental building block of matter
Two hundred years later, Aristotle considered water to be one of four fundamental elements, in addition to earth, air, and fire.
The belief that water was a fundamental substance persisted for more than 2,000 years until experiments in the 18th century showed that water is a compound made up of the elements hydrogen and oxygen.
One purpose of water is for cleanliness and hygiene. For example, we bath or shower, or wash our hands, to stay clean. Water cleans us by washing away dead skin cells, dirt, and soil and as a preventative measure to reduce the incidence and spread of diseases such as coronavirus. It may also take away body odors.
In addition, we rely on water for our food, health, livelihood, for fun and leisure. If water was to be taken away, that could take away lives, and perhaps the very world which we live in. Currently, millions of people live in water-stressed areas, which is when annual water supplies drop below 1,700 m3 per person. When that happens, the population faces water scarcity, and below 500 cubic meters "absolute scarcity".
Water-stressed areas include Qatar, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, UAE, San Marino, Bahrain, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Oman, and Botswana. By 2025, the number of people living in these places, about 700 million people, is expected to grow 1.8 billion — about 25% of the world population. That's crazy, what causes this?
Well, water shortages may be caused by climate change, because there is high confidence that increasing temperatures caused by climate change, can increase the evaporation of water. Also altered weather patterns including droughts or floods, increased pollution, and increased human demand and overuse of water, can all cause water to be diminished.
So, in sense water is disappearing, not by much, but it is happening. So who will solve this water crisis? Well, Israel has been worrying about water for a very long time. It is a tiny country about the size of New Jersey and is right next to Egypt in the Middle-East. Today, it leads the way in solving problems of water supply. This has resulted in a water revolution unlike anywhere else on earth. Israelis will be at the heart of any effort to solve the global water crisis.
But what are they doing?
#77
What if We Had No Water?
What if it Works?
Intro
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So wow ... I know What if it Work? Has been inactive lately, but let me tell you, it's been crazy. I've been busy for a good 2 1/2 years with high-school, but now with the ugly quarantine in everybody's lives, I've realized I need to entertain others. So here we go, and sorry for being inactive. Who knows? After all this maybe I'll still continue this amazing site.
Now, where were we a few years ago ... Oh, that! What if there was no water? I wrote the idea for this post three years ago and I think it's still relevant for what's happening right now. Let me explain ...
-------------
So wow ... I know What if it Work? Has been inactive lately, but let me tell you, it's been crazy. I've been busy for a good 2 1/2 years with high-school, but now with the ugly quarantine in everybody's lives, I've realized I need to entertain others. So here we go, and sorry for being inactive. Who knows? After all this maybe I'll still continue this amazing site.
Now, where were we a few years ago ... Oh, that! What if there was no water? I wrote the idea for this post three years ago and I think it's still relevant for what's happening right now. Let me explain ...
What we think it would be like?
So let's start with the basics. Water. What is it? We use it every day, to drink, to swim, it's in our food, it makes up most of the world. But what is it? Well, it's something made of the chemical elements. It has hydrogen and oxygen. The famous combination of H2O. Two Hydrogen and one oxygen. It's can be in gases, liquid, and solid states. It's the one thing that we need the most, or else we can't live.
For example, Aquafina. Known for its brand of purified water, is pretty much the top bottled water company in the world, and it's produced by PepsiCo. Anyways, Aquafina water goes through a seven-step HydRO-7 filtration process that supposedly makes it the purest water ever, still has taste. Why? Because there's still some minerals in it that cause it to have its taste.
Because of its how important it is, water has played an important religious and philosophical role in human history for a long time. In the 6th century BCE, Thales of Miletus regarded water as a fundamental building block of matter
Two hundred years later, Aristotle considered water to be one of four fundamental elements, in addition to earth, air, and fire.
The belief that water was a fundamental substance persisted for more than 2,000 years until experiments in the 18th century showed that water is a compound made up of the elements hydrogen and oxygen.
One purpose of water is for cleanliness and hygiene. For example, we bath or shower, or wash our hands, to stay clean. Water cleans us by washing away dead skin cells, dirt, and soil and as a preventative measure to reduce the incidence and spread of diseases such as coronavirus. It may also take away body odors.
In addition, we rely on water for our food, health, livelihood, for fun and leisure. If water was to be taken away, that could take away lives, and perhaps the very world which we live in. Currently, millions of people live in water-stressed areas, which is when annual water supplies drop below 1,700 m3 per person. When that happens, the population faces water scarcity, and below 500 cubic meters "absolute scarcity".
Water-stressed areas include Qatar, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, UAE, San Marino, Bahrain, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Oman, and Botswana. By 2025, the number of people living in these places, about 700 million people, is expected to grow 1.8 billion — about 25% of the world population. That's crazy, what causes this?
Well, water shortages may be caused by climate change, because there is high confidence that increasing temperatures caused by climate change, can increase the evaporation of water. Also altered weather patterns including droughts or floods, increased pollution, and increased human demand and overuse of water, can all cause water to be diminished.
So, in sense water is disappearing, not by much, but it is happening. So who will solve this water crisis? Well, Israel has been worrying about water for a very long time. It is a tiny country about the size of New Jersey and is right next to Egypt in the Middle-East. Today, it leads the way in solving problems of water supply. This has resulted in a water revolution unlike anywhere else on earth. Israelis will be at the heart of any effort to solve the global water crisis.
But what are they doing?
On 2 February 2012, the U.S. government’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a terrifying report with a horrifying simple title: “Global Water Security.” Which was basically saying that from then, the year 2012, until about 2040, there will be major water problems in lots of places in the world.
To quote:
"As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges in coping with water problems."
Israel has suffered from water shortage for years. The increase in demand for water for domestic uses, caused by population growth and the rising standard of living, Israel just doesn't seem to have the resources to get all this water.
One way to solve this problem was to use irrigation drip pipes. Simcha Blass was the first person to come up with such an idea. In the early 1960s, Blass developed the method of irrigation and the new dripper was the first practical surface drip irrigation emitter. During the years 1960 to 1965 Blass developed the drip-irrigation systems and sold them inside Israel and abroad. 
Other countries that suffer from water problems adopted Blass's idea, and use solar-powered irrigation systems. It's an automatic irrigation system running on solar energy through solar cells that converts sunlight into electricity, this electricity is used to power irrigation.
So the idea is being worked on, but drip irrigation is one of the ways to get more water and places were it is hard to find.
Another answer is to improve Sewage Systems. Clean drinking water starts with a good sewage system. Without proper cleaning, the water in an area becomes full of diseases and problems. By cleaning up the sewage systems, we can prevent the problem from getting worse.
So what would happen if we had no water? How would we survive, or would we survive? Well, water is our main source of life, if it was gone we would have to replace it. With what?
The truth is, humans can survive a short amount of time without water. Still, the body needs it for almost every process, including regulating body temperature through sweating and breathing. So how long can we survive without water?
"You can go 100 hours without drinking at an average temperature outdoors," Claude Piantadosi of Duke University told Fox. "If it’s cooler, you can go a little longer. If you are exposed to direct sunlight, it’s less."
So you could survive a few days. But what would happen within those few days?
With no water in the world, everything would die. Vegetation would soon die out and the world would just be brown, and empty. Clouds would cease to exist, and move around. In effect, precipitation would stop, meaning that the weather would be totally controlled by wind patterns.
The world would just be one boiling hot summer, all year round. Forever. Which wouldn't be so long for us, why? because we wouldn't live out the week. Forget living at all, our lives would be a utter misery. 
However not for all life. Life will still go on. Extremophiles harvest their nutrients from carbon monoxide (CO), meaning they can thrive even in sizzlingly hot or acidic environments, without water or sunlight. So I guess we will all die out but those little thingies will be living the life. I guess.
So would it Work?
So for a takeaway, we would die. Plants would die, most animals would die, but not all. Extremophiles wouldn't however. They can survive hot and cold temperatures, radiation, lack of food and water, and even in a vacuum.
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So would it Work?
So for a takeaway, we would die. Plants would die, most animals would die, but not all. Extremophiles wouldn't however. They can survive hot and cold temperatures, radiation, lack of food and water, and even in a vacuum.
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