| @Onno I believe you're thinking of a quiz I contributed. In it, the Bahamas are, in fact, #1 at highest water percentage (water area/total area). Naturally, knowing that information I didn't bother typing in the Bahamas, but when it showed up I felt like an idiot who must have really messed up his quiz and source choice. Therefore, I had to go back and check my quiz's source and this quiz's source to see who messed up. As I had thought, my source is the CIA world factbook, updated biweekly, and whose information is still consistent with the data in my quiz. Now, to make sure that the water area listed for the Bahamas did not include sea territory or bays, I checked another island (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) that, if sea territory was included, would obviously have some water area. But they have 0. That seemed hard to believe, so then I used satellite images on google maps to see how much water and lack thereof existed on these two countries. The Bahamas are indeed littered with lakes, while I couldn't find a drop on St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Now I knew my information was safe, but I still couldn't say that this quiz's source wasn't. I mean, it sounds pretty legit (and Booger made the quiz). The survey's data for the Bahamas' total internal water resources (km3/year)? A resounding 0. Still puzzled out of mind, I read the FAO's definition of non-renewable water resources, which "are groundwater bodies (deep aquifers) that have a negligible rate of recharge on the human time-scale and thus can be considered non-renewable." Therefore, that's either the case with the Bahamas, or all of their lakes (which didn't appear to connect to the sea, but you can't really tell for sure) contain salt or brackish water. Whatever the case may be, I feel that both sources (and quizzes) are still correct.
In conclusion, the Bahamas are the prime example of "water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink." |
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