The idea that all the water in our environment is recycled equally and has the same amount of water since Earth's creation is taught in science class throughout our school systems.
There are some obvious truths to the cycle that once water evaporates from the surface of the Earth into our atmosphere it returns again as precipitation back to Earth's surface.
Of course some water follows this "water cycle", but obviously not all. As we are also taught about the geographical history of our country and World that our current land mass was once mostly covered with water. There are massive amounts of geographical evidence and literary records of historical civilizations that had large lakes, seas and oceans that covered the now dry land where millions of people currently live. According to the taught notion of the "water cycle", those huge ancient bodies of water would be evaporated, sitting in our atmosphere to comeback down to Earth as precipitation, refilling our water ways.
Have you seen where the massive amounts of evaporated water has come back down as precipitation continuing the "water cycle"? Most people can not tell you why the historical huge lakes, seas and oceans that no longer exist on the surface of the Earth have not returned. We have less water on the surface of the Earth than any time known in our history and our waterways are rapidly diminishing at a faster rate than any time in our history.
Not only have "ancient" lakes, seas and oceans once expanded for hundreds of miles inland where humans now dwell, but lakes, rivers, and springs of today have disappeared completely just over the past hundred years and continue to diminish and dry up in our life time.
Large lakes, rivers and springs are currently drying up across our country and around the World as record breaking long droughts continue along with frivolous over use. Along with the cease of water recreation, drinking water is becoming a scarcity and more of a concern.
A large lake suited for sailboats, water skiing, swimming and fishing in Arizona has completely dried up in just the past 50 years. In Utah, Deer Creek Reservoir and river has receded several hundred feet in the past 7years to the point of a useless lake where boating is prohibited due to the unsafety of it's shallowness. Fishing in Deer Creek Reservoir was reported by fisherman to be nearly useless since there are hardly any fish if any at all left, let alone any big enough for fishing. In Deer Creek boat ramps lay across unevenly on dried up lake bottoms barely dipping into murky, unmoving water. Just fifteen years ago that lake was jumping with many vibrant fish! Lake Mead at Hoover Dam on the Colorado river meanders through and provides drinking and farming water to 8 of our states has reduced 60% in the past 5 years and continues to dry up today. The water supplied by the Colorado River for some states is their only drinking water source. Humans and all living organisms in our world need and cannot live without water. That is a fact, not theory.
If all water that has evaporated off millions of square miles of now dry land was in our air, our atmosphere would be saturated. Saturation in our atmosphere equals precipitation which would bring water back to earth. As the average rainfalls continue to drop below normal, obviously the amount of ancient and recently dried up oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers have not returned to the land.
It is amazing to see what is going on currently with the climate changes and to see evidence of how the physical geography of the Earth has been affected in the past. The sudden pronounced water decreases have sculpted dramatic visible ledges. The mountain sides that show drastic water level lines of ancient seas, lakes, and rivers are proof of sudden climate and weather changes in our Earth's history. According to astronomers, close planetary alignments that affect Earth's gravity happen in specific intervals (every 500 years). Ancient cultures were also aware of these major Earth changes and suddenly diminishing water mass levels coinciding with astronomical happenings which were recorded in their historical calendars. Thus enabling them to predict future Earth cycles.
The result of our water sources evaporating away under the Sun or out of the ground after wastefully watering unedible and chemicalized lawns, commercial landscapes, and commercial farming is having trouble returning making people wonder "where has the water gone?".
Some of the staunch science teachers will cling to the "water cycle" promising water to return from our atmosphere because the water had to have gone somewhere. Other scientists willingly point out the fact that all the evaporated water can not possibly be in our atmosphere according to their understanding of how weather works. That if that much H20 was existing in our atmosphere, it would have returned completeing the "water cycle", which not all has. The evaporated water is simply not all contained in our atmosphere completely.
As we would like to point out to people, the Earth's atmophere is not enclosed with a sealed metal or glass dome to capture everything including water molecules from escaping our atmosphere. Simply using the "Escape Velocity" formula demonstrates the amount of inertia to be bestowed on any object including water molecules to leave the limits of our atmophere and beyond into our solar system with gravity pulling it toward the sun.
Once the water molecules are pulled by gravity to be consumed by the burning Sun, the H2O molecules would be split, releasing hydrogen; the Sun's precise fuel to be burned, contributing to the Sun's energy needed by every living organism.
Thus we see the bigger picture, a much larger cycle that goes beyond our own atmosphere. It makes so much sense to think that the Earth's hydrogen could be part of the Sun's fuel. Scientists have stated that if the Sun's mass was completely filled with hydrogen to be burned, it would have run out thousands of years ago.
In simplicity, escaped H2O from Earth is fuel to the Sun probably along with hydrogen from the other planets in our solar system. This notion could be an integral part of the reason why astronomers have recently discovered the fact that the planets including Pluto which is comprised mostly of frozen water, has reduced significantly in size.
It's apparent that Earth is not the only planet that changes georaphically and environmentally in profound ways. After all, we are all connected by our shared world, Sun and Solar System in the same Universe that holds us all; affecting each other in extraordinary ways beyond our thought possibilities at this time.
*Picture Photographed by Jayar, BTTE
The above picture is part of "Death Valley" which used to be filled with water. "Death Valley" is now one of the Unted States' vast deserts, reaching 282 ft. below sea level.
