Well if 2/3 of the planet is covered in bodies of water that are undrinkably salinated it is pretty easy for there to be water loss into an unusable state if you are removing it from aquefers that take years to replenish.
Primarywater.org
Interesting rabbit hole if you have time.
Do you think the oceans just stop when they reach land or do they permeate into the crust beneath our feet.. gradually being filtered and entering vast cavities which we can tap into?
I happened upon a mountain stream deep in the southern Appalachian mountains while gold panning. I wasn’t finding anything and I was getting pretty bored so I thought I’d follow this stream up the mountain and to its source. Lo and behold, a spring bursting from the seams of a massive boulder at 2,500 feet. Where was this water coming from.. how was the water table so high? I chose a week in the dry season and a day that hadn’t seen rain in at least 6 days. I bet you that spring will never run dry.
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