Fresh Water

Fresh water is water that is naturally occurring on Earth’s surface. Water is in many different places such as in bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, and underground in aquifers and underground streams.

Having low concentrations of dissolved salts and other dissolved solids is considered fresh water. Many people think of seawater as fresh water.

Fresh water falls as mist, rain or snow contains materials dissolved from the atmosphere and material from the sea and land over which the rain bearing clouds have traveled.

Freshwater is an important natural resource for survival of ecosystems, they all need it. Chemical contaminations of freshwater can also seriously damage eco-systems. Us humans have a big part in this. Pollution from our activities, such as oil spills, also causes a problem for our fresh water resources. The biggest oil spill was in 1999, by a tank ship in Magdalena, polluting the environment, drinkable water, plants and animals.

Freshwater is a renewable and changeable, but extremely limited natural resource. Freshwater is consumed by us humans and our activies more then its restored by nature. Most freshwater is available in lakes, rivers, dams and underground waters and if lots is used or taken out it can cause serious damage to the environment around it.


By: Jasmin Young