Importance Of Water Bodies

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INDEX

Introduction
Distribution of Water At Earth Surface
Types of Water Bodies
Importance of Water Bodies
Water Bodies and Pollution
Introduction:

What are water bodies?
Water reservoirs, either natural or manmade are known as water bodies. Different names have given to these different bodies according to their size, properties etc. Moving water such as rivers or streams is also considered in the bodies of water.

Numbers of types of water bodies are present in planet earth. About 71% of earth crust is consisting of some form of this universal solvent.
Although there is enormous amount of water is present in different bodies, quite few amounts is present in the form of fresh water and much smaller quantity is in our reach. …show more content…

Importance of Water Bodies

Water is one of the most important parts of life cycle. Directly or indirectly, it is used by all living things or non living beings but this is not the only use of this universal solvent. In this portion some importance of water and its bodies are discussed.

Source of Oxygen

Everybody knows plant produces oxygen by the process of photosynthesis but the question is: what is the raw material for that process??? The answer is based in the thing which is discussed throughout the discussion, water.
Plants absorb water and convert its oxygen into oxygen gas. You can call it a miracle or a common scientific phenomenon but it works like a never ending cycle that plants convert water into oxygen and that oxygen is again converted in water by respiration or combustion or any other way. In oceans, algae also play this trick.

Climate Control

Water bodies are responsible of the air currents. They are the “Earth Coolers” as they create currents, create winds, causes rains, reflect heat from the sun etc. Without water bodies our earth would be much warmer and difficult place to live for all habitats.

Energy

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