In California, the drought is so bad that my favorite sister in San Rafael had to put another brick in her toilet.
That makes five now. It just breaks her heart how the bricks scratch the porcelain bowl as they swirl counter clockwise into the sewer with each flush. And at today's price of bricks, going too often could break the bank, she tells me.
Hey sis, I think you're putting them in the wrong place. See illustration A above.
OK, serious now. With almost 3/4ths of the earth covered in water, how come some have too much and some too little?
|The Pacific Ocean from as seen from space|
While the Earth's surface is 71% water... and more than two miles deep in the Pacific's Mariana Trench (which is 1,580 miles long and 43 miles across--take that, Grand Canyon) water is only .025% of the Earth's mass. If Earth was represented as a 12" diameter globe, the average depth of the oceans would be no more than the thickness of a piece of paper.