{"id":226605,"date":"2021-03-15T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=226605"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:02:47","slug":"humanity-is-in-control-of-majority-of-the-earths-freshwater-and-its-a-daunting-thought-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/humanity-is-in-control-of-majority-of-the-earths-freshwater-and-its-a-daunting-thought-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Is In Control Of Majority Of The Earth\u2019s Freshwater, And It\u2019s A Daunting Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily Hawker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In what many believe is an incredibly surprising fact, something has shifted in the natural world, and in an almost unimaginable scale at that. And what that is, is the fact that humans<\/strong> are now in control of the majority of the world\u2019s freshwater<\/strong>, which is one of the planet\u2019s most vital resources.<\/p>\n

Researchers share that they did their first global survey on human impact on the water cycle. These research scientists utilized NASA satellites in order to remotely measure and quantify the level of water that remains in the world\u2019s bodies of fresh water, totaling 227,386 of the world\u2019s lakes, ponds, and both in the small and large reservoirs.<\/p>\n

Although human-managed reservoirs \u2013 like artificial dams and other forms of water reserves \u2013 only make up \u20183.9 percent of this giant planetary-scale system of surface-level water storage,\u2019 what may seem like just a miniscule amount of water is actually proof that of just how much control humans have over the world\u2019s current freshwater fluctuations.<\/p>\n