Is there a finite amount of water on Earth, in any form, and could we ever run out?

Question

Is there a finite amount of water on Earth, in any form, and could we ever run out?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Two things:

1. There is a finite amount of everything in the universe.

2. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. There’s a lot of water on earth but no matter how much humans consume it almost never actually leaves the planet; it just gets recycled back into the environment.

I think want you really want to know is if we will ever run out of clean water and if the methods by which we recycle and purify our water can be sustained indefinitely.