#Surface water

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Taken as a whole, we refer to the Earth's water as the hydrosphere or the aqueous environment. The distribution of the Earth's water is shown in Fig. 9.1.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

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The distribution of the Earth's water is shown in Fig. 9.1.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

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Europe’s water security at risk

Habitat pollution, climate change and overuse of freshwater resources are putting pressure on Europe, with only a third of its surface waters in good condition, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned.

EEA executive director Leena Yla-Mononen said on Tuesday, 15 October:

The health of Europe’s waters is not good. Our waters face an unprecedented set of challenges that threatens Europe’s water security.

Only 37% of Europe’s surface water bodies achieved “good” or “high” ecological status, an indicator of the health of water ecosystems, according to the EEA report. Meanwhile, only 29% of surface waters reached “good” chemical status between 2015 and 2021.

77% of Europe’s groundwater reserves, the source of most of the continent’s drinking water, have a “good” chemical status. This status means that the water is free from excessive contamination by chemical nutrients and toxic substances such as PFAS and microplastics.

Surface water is threatened by air pollution, such as coal burning and car emissions, and by agriculture, whose discharged waste pollutes the soil.

European agriculture needs to increase its use of more sustainable organic and agroecological practices, accompanied by incentives and a change in our food and dietary habits.

The European Agency analysed 120,000 surface water bodies and 3.8 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) of groundwater sites in 19 EU countries and Norway. The agency called on EEA member states to halve pesticide use by 2030.

We need to redouble our efforts to restore the health of our valued rivers, lakes, coastal waters and other water bodies, and to make sure this vital resource is resilient and secure for generations to come.

Read more HERE

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الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها

الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها   الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها الكاتب : الدعاجنة حجازي الملخص: تعاني الضفة الغربية شحاً كبيراً في المياه، ما اضطر الكثير من أهاليها للاعتماد بشكل دائم تقريباً على شراء هذه المياه نظرا لمحدودية مصادر المياه الموجودة والتغيرات المناخية التي تؤثر بشكل كبير على نوعية وكمية المياه، هذا ويتصف الوضع…

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الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها

الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها   الإمكانيات المائية الحالية في الضفة الغربية (فلسطين) وسبل تنميتها الكاتب : الدعاجنة حجازي الملخص: تعاني الضفة الغربية شحاً كبيراً في المياه، ما اضطر الكثير من أهاليها للاعتماد بشكل دائم تقريباً على شراء هذه المياه نظرا لمحدودية مصادر المياه الموجودة والتغيرات المناخية التي تؤثر بشكل كبير على نوعية وكمية المياه، هذا ويتصف الوضع…

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My coworker took a full frontal picture of the arapaima at work and sent this in our group chat

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Sandstorm

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:39:45

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The Rain Coat by Robert Wun

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Silk-mix jacquard and embossed taffeta rain coat. Hand-beaded with over 30,000 Swarovski clear crystals. Over 600 hours of hand work.

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As an example, a comprehensive description of water resource distribution in India is provided in Fig. 1.5. (...) With reference to Fig. 1.5, there are two terms, source and sink, that are important and relevant to this and other environmental discussions.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

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Because the rapid release means there is limited opportunity for contact with the soil, a large proportion of the dissolved ions remain unreacted and end up directly in surface or groundwater.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

[jayelf]

Water scarcity

Water is a necessary component of life. Although water is believed to be plentiful in nature, fresh water, on which humans rely, is not.

Water is a vital component of life. Although water is believed to be plentiful in nature, fresh water, on which humans rely, is not. Fresh water accounts for only 2.5% of the world’s water, with surface water accounting for 1.2% and groundwater accounting for 30.1%. A water source is considered to be stressed when there is strain on it. Water scarcity comes before water stress. Water shortage…

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Liquid - Julie Kluh , 2019.

American , b. 1984 -

Acrylic on canvas board , 12 x 18 in.

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One interesting part of the discourse surrounding family-coding relationships in media is when people who are against it raise the argument that two characters ‘can’t be sibling-coded because their relationship is more complicated than that.’ As if siblings relationships by nature were an uncomplicated thing

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There is a scratch mark on the floor of the Council chambers that Mace has never noticed before. Not a deep one, mind, quite shallow. This matters because it’s making the white-hot pulse of agony stabbing through his eyeballs ebb momentarily. Then, he chances a glance upwards at the fidgeting Knight in front of them, and it returns in full force.

Huh, he’s never seen Oppo Rancisis’ face turn that colour before.

“Hmm”, Master Yoda hums, deep and scratchy. His expression is unreadable even to Mace beyond a baseline gremlinness, and the force with which he grips the edges of his seat is making his bones creak. Master of the Order you should become, they said. Follow the calling of the Force, you should. A fulfilling purpose, it will be. Mace is going to hunt the little goblin for sport when this is all over, and he’s going to laugh the whole time.

“Show us the livestream again, could you, Knight Parvo?” Yoda asks. Mace bursts a capillary, he’s pretty sure, and so does poor Knight Parvo, whose orange Mon Cala skin tips all the way into blood red with stress. “Most unusual, this is.”

“Absolutely not!”, Ki Adi intervenes before Mace has to, thank the Force for little mercies. Plo Koon’s tusks tremble slightly with either suppressed laughter or abject horror, maybe both, and Stass Allie has her head in her hands. “The holo stills should be enough”, Ki Adi proceeds to add, and Mace has to reconsider all feelings of grace he just felt towards his fellow Councillor.

He never wants to watch Yoda zoom in on someone’s abs again. Or Depa raise her eyebrows at the curve of thighs bent over the dripping front of a speeder.

“Speeder Wash For Our Troops”, his former padawan reads out loud from a still of what has to be hundreds of the things gathered in the public senate parking lot. “Fund Our Boys And Get A Wet Seeing-To!” The series of images features dozens of Coruscant Guard troopers in various stages of unkitted, gleaming and shining with soap suds and water. The fact that the whole thing is also massive shatterpoint after massive shatterpoint is, quite frankly, insulting.

“Well hello- oh dear”, Obi-Wan’s blue form crackles to life in his chair, followed by several sounds of choking that are definitely not him. Good, Mace thinks acidly. If he has to deal with this, then so does kriffing Skywalker. “I’m sorry, why am I looking at Commander Thorn using a washrag like a lasso on top of a speeder?”

“Oh, the Guard’s little fundraising project”, Bail Organa says, as he steps into the Council chambers. Normally, Mace likes the man well enough. Now, he just smiles and adds on, “I’ve already donated, in mine and Breha’s name. Remotely, of course.”

“The Guard’s fundraising speeder wash?”, Obi-Wan repeats, edges of his holo form flickering with what Mace suspects is Skywalker very unsubtly trying to edge in. Force, but the man really is horrible at any and all stealth, like kissing his secret wife in an open arena in front of his Master. “And they are fundraising for…?”

“GAR budget allocations have to come from somewhere”, Organa shrugs. “And with the tide of public opinion turning, they’ve been tending towards cuts. The Guard feels them more keenly than any other sector - they’ve been reduced from half to quarter rations, and medical supplies have not made more than a token appearance in the last draft. The Chancellor has cancelled three consecutive meetings on the matter, and thus it was agreed that a more hands-on approach was needed. Any surplus will go into the Army fund.”

“Surely it can’t be that dire”, Oppo protests, a slightly less concerning shade of purple now. Senator Organa shrugs again, jostling the smattering of cracks slowly building around his person in a way that makes Mace wince quietly. “It’s all publicly available data, Masters.”

It really can be that dire, as it turns out. And quarter rations is only scratching the surface of how dire, considering the Guard has apparently never had access to bacta in all their posting, and also includes requisitioning forms available to the Senate for reconditionings and decommissionings, two words Mace has only heard Ponds whispers amidst shuddering in the early days of the war before Shaak Ti went off and just about tore some throats out over it.

“Alright”, he concedes, rubbing at his temples. “Fair enough, we have failed to tackle a massive blind spot in the Guard’s well being. There is no Jedi assigned to Coruscant, and that’s an oversight on our behalf. But how in the everloving kriff did this get past the Chancellor and Commander Fox?!”

Who have both signed, black on white. Bail Organa smiles cryptically. “Well, if you scroll a bit past that one image, up to the industrial speeder in the back - Commander Fox is currently having credits stuffed into his codpiece in the back, I believe.”

“HE’S WHAT IN THE WHAT NOW”, Commander Cody screeches through the speaker of Obi-Wan’s holo image, and Mace has to summon every bit of Jedi-serenity he possesses in his body to keep from dropkicking a cackling Yoda through the chamber windows.