Page 4 - Jupiter West - February '21

Page 4, Jupiter West

It’s The Law! Northern Notes

Water Facts And Trivia form of rain and snow. Water in different phases moves through
Did You Know That, In By Katie Roundtree, Finance the atmosphere (transportation). Liquid water flows across
land (runoff), into the ground (infiltration and percolation),
Florida… Director, and through the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves
Northern Palm Beach into plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the
By Adam S. Gumson, County Improvement District atmosphere (transpiration). On a global basis, evaporation
Esq. “We forget that the water approximately equals precipitation. There is more water in
COVID-19 has led cycle and the life cycle are the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined. If all of the
to people reevaluating one.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau water vapor in our planet’s atmosphere fell as water at once
their marital situation Water is such a simple and spread out evenly, it would only cover the globe with
and finding themselves element, made up of one about an inch of water.
ready to escape unhappy oxygen and two hydrogen Nearly 97 percent of the world’s water is salty, therefore
marriages. Coupled molecules, but so essential to undrinkable. 2.5 percent of the earth’s fresh water is
with the growth of life. A person can live a month unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere,
“ gray divor ces ” without food, but only about a and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth’s
(divorce over age 50) week without water. However, water is essential to all life, not surface to be extracted at an affordable cost. That leaves
filings for dissolution of just human life. Here are some interesting facts about water. just .5 percent for all of humanity’s needs – its agricultural,
marriage have increased. In some gray divorces where residential, manufacturing, community, and personal needs.
couples have been long-separated, sorting through Water regulates the earth’s temperature. It also regulates the
equitable distribution can get complicated because it temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to
might require reviewing many years of bank statements cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes
or other financial records. wastes. The human body is comprised of mostly water. A
For new home real estate contracts, buyers must newborn baby, for example, is 78 percent water and adults
decide in writing whether to put money in escrow are 55 to 60 percent water. The human brain is comprised of
or release funds to the builder. It’s not always a about 75 percent water. Interestingly enough, a tree is also
straightforward decision. If the buyer places the earnest comprised of about 75 percent water.
money deposit in escrow, the builder has the right to Usually when solids form, atoms get closer together to form
charge the buyer the builder’s cost of borrowing that something denser. This is why most solids sink in water. But
amount of money, less any interest that the builder is solid water, or ice, is actually less dense. It expands by about
able to obtain on the escrow while the deposits are being 9 percent, which is unusual. The water molecules form rings
held in the bank. when water freezes. All that space makes ice less dense and
If you die without a will, your estate will be explains why it floats. This is good because ice floating on top
distributed in accordance with the state’s intestacy There are about 332,500,000 cubic miles of water on earth. of a body of water lets the rest of it stay liquid. If ice sank,
laws, which mandate distribution of assets to blood That’s about the same amount of water as there was when whole oceans could freeze solid!
relatives (or their spouses). For example, the intestacy the earth was formed! The water from your faucet could As you can see, water is essential to life here on earth. It
statute designates a hierarchy of beneficiaries starting contain molecules that dinosaurs drank or walked through! is important to keep it clean and be mindful of what goes into
with the spouse, children, parents, siblings, etc. So, if it The rocky material that formed earth contained some water. it. Water is part of a deeply interconnected system. What we
is your wish that your assets go to someone other than But that probably doesn’t account for all the water we see pour on the ground ends up in our water, and what we spew
those on this list (like a friend or charity), it is especially today. Comets are mostly water/ice. It’s possible that comets into the sky ends up in our water. Life on earth simply cannot
important that you draft a will. made regular water deliveries to earth. It would take a lot of exist without water. Whether or not it can exist on other planets
Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying comets to fill the ocean, but comets could well have made a without water, is a topic for another time.
and gathering the assets of a deceased person (who big contribution. Sources: www.epa.gov and www.climatekids.nasa.gov.
is called the “decedent”), paying the decedent’s Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet’s surface and is NPDES tip: Planting a rain garden with native plants
debts and distributing the decedent’s assets to his/her recycled constantly by way of the water cycle. The water somewhere around your home helps lock rain water in the
beneficiaries. cycle is the continuous movement of water within the earth ground, reducing the flow of pollutants and poisons into the
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