
Besides being the most essential matter for life, without water, climates would change dramatically. Out of all the water in the world, only 3% of it is freshwater, the remaining 97% is obviously stored in the largest body of water in the world. So what does all that information transform to? 6 billion people in world depend on that 3% of fresh water to live. In well developed countries, the access of fresh water is not a problem, but in developing countries, conserving water is a huge part of the way of life. In some places in Mexico, some families even have to spend a large portion of their income into purchasing fresh water. People like myself, always have lived in a developed countries, in the middle class, do not feel the effect of this problem.
Referring to the geographics of the Earth, not everyone has close access to fresh water reservoirs, so the use of ground water is very common for a lot of places. Out of the total amount of fresh water on Earth, 2.15% is frozen in the glaciers, and only 0.62% in ground water aquifers. There's a small amount of ground water and people are pumping ground water. As these aquifers (saturated sediments) are being depleted, the rate of recharge is much slower than the rate of discharge. Once the water between the pores of the sediments are removed, the place at which the water used to hold will compress, making it diffcult for recharging of the sediments to occur.
So what is the water in the ground is all gone? We only use it to drink from it and besides that there's really nothing that we do with it. Many streams and rivers gets some or most of its water from ground water. As ground water gets increasingly depleted, streams and rivers that are fed but the ground water becomes dryer and dryer. Once the water tabel get below the depth of the river, the river will turn into what is called a losing stream. Meaning that any water in the river will seep into the ground to where the lowered water table is. As land and its soil become dryer and dryer, the nutrients in the soil dries up. The nutrients are then blown away by the wind, and you are left with unfertile and dusty land. This process is called desertifcation. Once this process occurrs, it is nearly impossible to restore that nutrients and the land becomes dryer and dryer, then eventually into a desert.
Without bodies of water nearby, the climate in that region becomes dry and arrid. It also becomes hotter in those areas because there is not bodies of water to buffer the temperature.
Over pumping of ground water can create irreversbile climate changes.

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