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can every one c this?--202.7.166.164 08:17, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
It is formally "freshwater", not "fresh water". I have changed this and made "fresh water" redirect to the new, correctly spelled page. I am an oceanographer and we spell it "freshwater" in our proposals and articles.
Originally the page was titled "fresh water". That spelling is not formally correct as confirmed by both official sources and me, being an oceanographer. It is actually "freshwater" as one word. I have created this new page and the old misspelled page redirects here.
At what salinity level does freshwater scientifically become saltwater? That information would be useful in the article.
I was going to take a stab at this article, but I'm not sure where to start. To start with, should it be one word (freshwater) or remain as it is, as two words (fresh water)? How about organization? Tommy Kronkvist's comments were helpful, but what is the source for citation purposes? Ginkgo100 23:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would say that it should remain as two words. WaterGuy
"Many species can live in fresh water == Headline text ==Bold text , including freshwater fish species."
I'm guessing that by the first "species" we're talking about "organisms"... I know that the wording is technically correct, but it seems somewhat circular, and I'm not certain if stating that freshwater fish can live in freshwater environments is too obvious. I'm kind of new to editing Wikithings (lol obvious no account), so I thought I'd better bring this up in discussion rather than toss in my interpretation of what was meant to be said. That, and I'm nowhere near educated on the matter.
216.170.23.236 01:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
These articles on Fresh, Saline and Brine water (etc) are confusing and inconsistent -- how is 50 ppt equal to 50% ? Really needs some clarification, because PPM, PPT and % are all on very different scales.. --MaXiMiUS 07:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This article does not agree with the H2O article on the % of fresh water and where it is stored at. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.180.189.25 (talk) 06:10, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
HELP:It does not say what the percentage of earths surface is covered by fresh water. Any answer from anyone?
To be added?
fresh water < 1500 mg/L TDS
Source: ISBN:0-13-148193-2, page 188
--Saippuakauppias ⇄ 17:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
make more lines wirte more better put more stuff —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.12.41 (talk) 02:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello i'm a unknown guy here to tell you that reports are hard but when you use the internet it is a piece of juicey pizza. I was bumed when i heard that we had areport and said you know what i'm gonna use the internet . Because it is easy and reliable . So i encourage you to use the internet for not only freshwater reports but any kind . Heres an example wicipedia ) And my teacher said it was incorrect but i still will pass my fresh water and french report .
' unknown kid
This whole article is of a very poor standard considering the importance of the topic. It is often factually wrong, often unreferenced, has substantial chunks of almost incomprehensible English and veers off into drinking water, sustainability, fish biology, and pollution without maintaining any sort of cogent theme. Please help to greatly improve this article - I really do sympathise with the unknown kid above trying to do his homework. Velela Velela Talk 14:15, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There should be an introduction that briefly describes what it is and its significance/importance. Roger (talk) 14:44, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I used OneLook Dictionary Search to obtain definitions of "freshwater" from a number of sources. Here are the results:
Compact Oxford English Dictionary adjective only
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language adjective only
Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition adjective only
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition noun or adjective; noun definition is "water that is not salty especially when considered as a natural resource"
Wiktionary noun or adjective; noun example is given as "fresh water"
Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. adjective only
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus adjective only
Dictionary.com adjective only
UltraLingua English Dictionary adjective only
Cambridge Dictionary of American English adjective only
Rhymezone adjective only
Webster's 1828 Dictionary adjective only
Free Dictionary noun or adjective; noun is given as a synonym of "fresh water"
Mnemonic Dictionary noun only; given as a synonym of "fresh water"
LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus adjective only
Dictionary/thesaurus adjective only
Biological Sciences Dictionary noun or adjective; noun is given as a synonym of "fresh water"
Fishkeeping glossary noun only
Glossary of Meteorology noun only
So to summarize, 12 out of 19 sources classify "freshwater" as an adjective only, and of the 7 sources that classify it as a noun, 4 do so as a synonym of "fresh water". Of the 3 sources that classify it as a noun without equating it to "fresh water", 2 are technical. I also looked it up in Britannica.Com, which uses "fresh water".
Since Wikipedia is not a purely technical encyclopedia, there is, in my view, no justification for presenting only one spelling of the term, and I am changing the article accordingly. WolfmanSF (talk) 05:28, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Only parts of the original talk page at Talk:Freshwater have been moved here, this selective move has the effect of leaving out all discussion that motivated the move from "Freshwater to "Fresh water" in the first place - the record is incomplete and in a way even "biased" against the move by not including the discussion of the move itself. Roger (talk) 11:08, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Per the cited source (http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8b.html), lakes and rivers/streams make up 0.011% of the earth's freshwater, not 0.0001%. Zeke Hausfather (talk) 16:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Add "Consumption for freshwater per person is a Planetary boundaries metric." 99.19.40.44 (talk) 19:46, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Add "Consumption of water and the global hydrological cycle is a Planetary boundaries metric.", but another wp article might be drinking water/potable water (consumption), water resources, and water crisis. 99.181.129.252 (talk) 06:18, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
China Takes a Loss to Get Ahead in the Business of Fresh Water Michael Wines published: October 25, 2011 ... There are plenty of reasons for China to want a homegrown desalination industry, not the least of which is homegrown fresh water. ... 97.87.29.188 (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Related to potable water (drinking water), from Talk:Planetary_boundaries ... Why the World May Be Running Out of Clean Water by Bryan Walsh Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011; excerpt
A parched lake in Texas illustrates the effects of a record-breaking drought that hit the state and much of the American Southwest this year
99.181.134.6 (talk) 06:44, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In <<Image:Earth_water_distribution.svg|thumb|290px|Visualisation of the distribution (by volume) of water on Earth>> legends "Fresh groundwater 7 600 ppm (0.76%) 10 530 000 km3" and "Ice caps, galciers & permanent snow 17 400 ppm (1.74%) 24 064 000 km3" should be swapped, obviously the latter refers to the large light blue rectangle and vice-versa.
89.181.189.119 (talk) 16:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
mm of water? Water should be measured in VOLUME not by distance. You can't measure water in units of distance because distance is a line. Nor does it make sense if the "mm" meant m x m or meters squared....because volume is not a surface area. Volume is m x m x m. It should be something like, meters cubed, or some unit, cubed, because it is a volume amount, not a distance. "mm" normally stands for millimeter and that truly does not make sense here. Also, how long exactly, is a total growing period? When "/total growing period" is the time period, that is not reasonable, because in years where there are drought or when the conditions are more dry, the growing period may actually be cut short...whereas in some places, the growing period may be almost year-round, and in those cases, the plants would consume far more water since they are producing fruits almost year-round. The units on this are just all out of whack. Can whomever added that table please clarify?
Thanks. 192.33.240.95 (talk) 19:45, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Plans to expand the “fresh water as a resource” section are as follows, especially focusing on the “limited resource” section:
1) Elaborate on the usage of water by humans for irrigation and industrial purposes, and the effect they have on the environment.
2) The petroleum oil spill caused by the Royal Dutch Shell, further investigation into the effect this had on drinking water, plants and animals.
3) Add a section on fresh water in the future- what options do we have when we run out of fresh water? When will we run out of fresh water? What are our options? What technologies are being developed to be put in place to prevent fresh water running out?
4) Add a section on how different countries around the world access fresh water. Different communities using wells, and the environmental problems that wells cause, v.s. cities in the desert such as Las Vegas that access water through reservoirs and pipelines.
5) The causes of why it is a limited resource, expanding on global warming and the effect it is having on our world- what will happen to us after we run out of water.
Mjglitter (talk) 21:55, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I have chosen your article to review for the peer review section of the ANTH 2501 Wikipedia assignment. Everything that was added to the Fresh Water article is readable and relevant but there are some citations missing within a few of the added texts. There is only one of the two sections added, and it is also missing the 5 credible sources and 1 external link. Make sure to follow the checklist/guide line. Good luck on the rest of the assignment. Sibs62 (talk) 15:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Read the below sentence from the article and think it maybe logically flawed. Should it read "the oceans will become less salty" (cut "to drink")? Please check and correct if wrong. Otherwise I read it wrong.Septagram (talk) 05:39, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If global warming continues to melt glaciers in the polar regions, as expected, the supply of fresh water may actually decrease. First, fresh water from the melting glaciers will mingle with salt water in the oceans and become too salty to drink
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I've just re-arranged the headings a bit. My aim was to use a more logical structure with standard headings (like "Problems") and then grouping things together in the right sub-headings. I am still not totally satisfied, e.g. the heading called "Aquatic organisms" does not seem to fit well. Maybe it should come below a heading called "Fundamentals" or something like that? And as it's an overview article on a broad topic we should ensure that we link to all the relevant sub-topics nicely, e.g. I have now linked better to water scarcity, I think. EMsmile (talk) 14:29, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I like the sequencing of headings.PlanetCare (talk) 20:27, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I can see a lot of overlap between this article and water resources. While they are not synonyms, I am wondering if they would be better off to be treated in the same article, i.e. in water resources? If not then I think some content here should be merged into the other article and then just a summary of that content and link be given here. Namely the sections on problems and uses. Velella, I see you have worked on this article before, hence the friendly ping. :-) EMsmile (talk) 05:57, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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