Waterblogged

If you ever have the need to refute one of those annoying intelligent design adherents, just follow Waterblogged.info’s standard operating procedure: point to the distribution of the planet’s freshwater and ask–in as sardonic a fashion as possible–This is intelligent?
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Filed under: Great Lakes, Lake Baikal | 3 Comments »

When Russians hear about our so-called Great Lakes, they just laugh in that hearty Russian way. Sure the Fab Fresh Five combined contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh water, but Lake Baikal (pictured left), located in Siberia north of Mongolia, holds 20 percent of everyone’s favorite combination of salt-free hydrogen and oxygen; while it [...]

Filed under: Great Lakes, Lake Baikal, Lake Superior, Peter Annin, Water wars, water transfers | 1 Comment »