Sentence examples for planet's water from inspiring English sources

Groundwater provides about a fifth of the planet's water needs and half its drinking water.

The ocean contains 96% of the planet's water, and 50 times as much carbon as the atmosphere.

On the other hand, much of the planet's water was locked up in icecaps and glaciers, and sea levels would have been much lower than today's.

The unfortunate coincidence that this is World Water Week, with international delegates arriving in Stockholm to discuss the planet's water crisis, has not been lost on some.

Scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter say climate change could bring greater disruption to the planet's water cycle than previously thought.

It is generated by four components: the atmosphere (the air we breathe); the hydrosphere (the planet's water); the cryosphere (the ice sheets and glaciers); the biosphere (the planet's plants and animals).

These adjustable pores evolved around 400 million years ago and have influenced our planet's water-cycle ever since (Berry et al. 2010; Brodribb and McAdam 2017).

Despite sitting in a huge basin that would have once collected most of the planet's running water, the ice cap holds just 10% of the water needed to account for a hypothesized early ocean on Mars, researchers reported here yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

That's crucial, considering that about 70percentt of the planet's fresh water is currently used for agricultural irrigation.

But the country has only five per cent of the planet's potable water.

Not only does it cover more than two-thirds of the planet's surface, water is constantly in motion.