Page 10 - PGA Community News - February '21

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Northern Notes

Water Facts And Trivia It expands by about 9 percent,
which is unusual. The water
By Katie Roundtree, molecules form rings when water
Finance Director, Northern freezes. All that space makes ice
Palm Beach County less dense and explains why it
Improvement District floats. This is good because ice
“We forget that the floating on top of a body of water
water cycle and the life lets the rest of it stay liquid. If ice
cycle are one.” – Jacques sank, whole oceans could freeze
Yves Cousteau solid!
Water is such a simple As you can see, water is
element, made up of one essential to life here on earth.
oxygen and two hydrogen It is important to keep it clean
molecules, but so essential and be mindful of what goes
to life. A person can live a month without food, but only into it. Water is part of a deeply
about a week without water. However, water is essential interconnected system. What we
to all life, not just human life. Here are some interesting pour on the ground ends up in
facts about water. our water, and what we spew into
There are about 332,500,000 cubic miles of water on the sky ends up in our water. Life on earth simply cannot somewhere around your home helps lock rain water in
earth. That’s about the same amount of water as there was exist without water. Whether or not it can exist on other the ground, reducing the flow of pollutants and poisons
when the earth was formed! The water from your faucet planets without water, is a topic for another time. into the drains. Using organic fertilizers and pesticides
could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank or walked Sources: www.epa.gov and www.climatekids.nasa.gov. in your garden further protects and brings health to your
through! The rocky material that formed earth contained NPDES tip: Planting a rain garden with native plants yard and all the species living there.
some water. But that probably doesn’t account for all the
water we see today. Comets are mostly water/ice. It’s
possible that comets made regular water deliveries to
earth. It would take a lot of comets to fill the ocean, but Attention:
comets could well have made a big contribution.
Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet’s surface PGA Residents Of Mellowing Years
and is recycled constantly by way of the water cycle.
The water cycle is the continuous movement of water A single phone number may help you to live confidently and gracefully in your own home.
within the earth and atmosphere. It is a complex system Now there is a volunteer senior ambassador within PGA community who is well-schooled in
that includes many different processes. Liquid water resources available to help with problems of elders. The Alpert family and Children’s Services
evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds, has been helping seniors do just that for many years.
and precipitates back to earth in the form of rain and snow. • You have questions? We may have answers.
Water in different phases moves through the atmosphere • You don’t know where to go? We can guide you.
(transportation). Liquid water flows across land (runoff), • You don’t know what you need? We’re well-versed in that problem.
into the ground (infiltration and percolation), and through • Do you know a neighbor who needs help?
the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves into Don’t wait. Call now. Dorothy Weiss, 624-4035. Let’s keep connected with each other as a community.
plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the All you need is the desire to live comfortably in your own home.
atmosphere (transpiration). On a global basis, evaporation
approximately equals precipitation. There is more water
in the atmosphere than in all of our rivers combined. If
all of the water vapor in our planet’s atmosphere fell as
water at once and spread out evenly, it would only cover
the globe with about an inch of water.
Nearly 97 percent of the world’s water is salty,
therefore undrinkable. 2.5 percent of the earth’s fresh
water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps,
atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under
the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
That leaves just .5 percent for all of humanity’s needs – its • Remodels / New Construction / Additions
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