across the U.S., but an Instagram video claims the problem is an illusion.
The video shows a man wearing a life vest while floating in what appears to be a reservoir or lake. A caption briefly superimposed on the video says: "Why we are never running out of water."
The man claims that "we have unlimited water" created through the combination of hydrogen and oxygen "deep within the Earth." Purportedly, this new water is constantly emerging at the surface.
"It’s hard to get the point across to many people in the U.S. that the Earth makes water," reads part of the Aug. 27 Instagram post's caption. "We can access it and solve our problems. Clean, virtually infinite sources of water are right under our feet.”
The post garnered nearly 4,000 likes in two months.
But it is wrong. Earth does not have unlimited water, and the total amount of water on the planet stays fairly constant, according to researchers. Water scarcity occurs, not because there is less total water, but because water becomes less available in specific places due to overuse, drought or pollution.
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