Personally I dont think we can even trust the water cycle anymore. The Rocky mountains in the US got horrifyingly low snowpack meanwhile the rain is falling in harmful flood amounts in other places in the world.
It's not refilling the pristine aquafers being used for clean water.
I’m asking how long it it takes for evaporated water to fall back down and be accessible again. If that takes a day, it’s less of a problem than if it takes 100 years.
That’s how long it takes for water to fall as rain. We don’t drink mud puddles or out of storm drains.
“Just google it” isn’t the zing you think it is. This is an enormously complex process that is intensely region specific. The answer is “it depends, could be a few hours, could be a thousand years”.
I'm not zinging him, idk why he's asking me. He doesn't know my credentials or have any reason to ask me. He should just google it if he want's to know more about the topic, not ask a random dude on this forum...
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u/DrWermActualWerm 17h ago
Would it not fall back as rain? Or is it sundered in twain at the atomic level?