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I wouldn't be worried in the least if consumption all over the globe was only 5 billion gallons....but consumption all over the world is at 41 billion gallons.....and supply is probably far over that number..guess would be around 50 billion gallons...probably more....but around there....I have found this number at more than one site but here is one that I found it at. http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update51.htm and those numbers are for 2004.....always climbing

Thanks for all the wonderful posts, I am going to research this further and try to come back with more info in support of my hypothesis....or my ultimate demise of the thought on this. Comment as much as you'd like to on this and please remember I am no scientist... I am just someone who has a thought and wants to clarify it or have it dispelled....I am not a nut job who thinks I am right no matter what, and if you can disprove me I have no problem saying I am wrong, and I also have no problem saying I am right either....right now I know I am niether for I have no facts to back it up or no facts to disprove it. I will be back.....

But this is a local phenomenon. Depletion at one point will not cause this problem at a remote location. So, in essence your saying that depletion of a water source would only effect that location and no other? I can't see how that could be. If water in maine, on a very small scale even; say a pin drop, were to evaporate there winds would carry it out to the Atlantic atleast. Then again if the water is not there to evaporate and get put back into the system to produce more rain..what then....no rain? droughts?..and this would go for sweet water and salt water....sure the oceans will hopefully never dry up....hope..hope....hope... but the system ultimately deprived of water from bottled water and the boat loads of other sources in every grocery store across america (and many other countries) could feel the impact. I mean for just a moment, even though I would never feel right saying this, walk into your local wal-mart or costco. How many products have water in them? Now multiply by 3000 or more. Now go to England, Russia, Turkey, Canada, or Brazil. Every nation of the world has bottled water. I know no where near as much as the U.S. , but they have some. Now with billions of gallons of water not doing it's job of evaporating then finding a nice cloud to flow out of (yeah I know it's not sound scientific language), what has the end product become? Is this just a local problem? god I hope I'm wrong...but to me this seems like an epidemic. To me it seems like it will never get better, water is in high demand across the globe. Now where did all that sweet water go that was so plentiful years and years ago, I know the population has risen 10 fold in less than 200 years, and this isn't helping matters any. Now I'm just rambling on so I will leave you with those points to discuss. Thanks and I will be glad to hear your responses later. P.S. Thanks for the welcome sign and also to the many who have posted, this is a work in progress so the debate shall go on.

I have for a great time been trying to find information on a subject of interest. This topic is the deminishing water supply of the world. I have put alot of thought into it and have come up with a sort of hypothosis. Given the fact that many scientists say(and their research confirms) that we only have so much water on this planet, and that the amount only veries by slight degrees. My question and hypothosis are one in the same....Could the fact that we bottle billions of gallons of water cause the depletion of water else where....as in could our bottling of water cause a small town in africa go without water because that water is no longer accessible to the overall enviorment? I put this under pseudoscience and speculation because I have no idea if I could be right, but wanted to ask around to more knowledgeable people to find the answer or to get derections toward an answer.... Thank you for all and any help in this matter..