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Peak Water: How will it affect our oceans?

Once we run out of drinking water along with all the major countries' desalination plants up and running, pumping billions of gallons of water out of the ocean per day, how will our planet be affected?

Will the ocean's pH level be totally messed up?

How will fish and other marine die off when we start taking their water?

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  • Mark Meijer 100+

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    Oct 20 2011: Where has all the drinking water gone? We drank it, obviously, and wasted it, but nothing just vanishes out of the system. It returns to the ground, to rivers, to the ocean. If not directly, then via the clouds. There may be drinkable water shortage, but there is no water shortage. There are no "landfills" with used-up water. Polluted water, for sure. But polluted water already flows freely throughout the system. It doesn't matter where we get our drinking water from, it never disappears, it's always just passing through. What we need to be concerned about is how to stop polluting it in a way that causes damage that we don't know how to reverse.
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    Steven Dilloway

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    Oct 20 2011: furr sure (sorry couldn't resist the bear pun)

    but yeah, I've heard a lot of people talking about the shift in (or stop) of ocean currents (which play a big role in regulating climate). TED has some really good videos on earths oceans you should check out. I think we will see a lot of underdeveloped countries having major population losses related to this (i.e. drinking water, food, ect.)

    this world sucks don't it?
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