What If Water Disappeared From The Earth?

What If Water Disappeared From The Earth?

We all know that the Earth is an aqueous place. About 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water, and the oceans contain about 96.5% of the planet's water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in lakes, rivers, glaciers and ice caps, in soil and in soil moisture and aquifers, and even at home. and your pet.

The water never stays still. Thanks to the water cycle, the water resources of our planet are constantly moving from one place to another and from one form to another. Things would be spoiled without the water cycle!

Do you ever think about what would happen if the water disappears from the  Earth?

If the water disappears every living thing on earth would die since water is a large component of all known living cells, every animal, plants, fungus, etc would all desiccate definitely, and crumble to dust.

With all the water vapor part of the atmosphere, the sky would change color and become a reddish hue due to the high oxygen content.  Without water vapor acting as a greenhouse gas, the surface temperature would drop substantially, maybe even to below freezing temperatures, but that wouldn't matter as much with anything left to freeze.

The oceans would be bare, damaging the Grand Canyon so much that it would be a joke, but the bottom of the ocean would be extremely bright, covered with several inches of salt that would settle on the ground when the water disappeared. 

What was known as the main island of Hawaii is now just the summit of Mauna Kea, the new tallest mountain on earth.

Even what we once called the continents would look completely different. With all the aquifers and underground reservoirs suddenly dried up, huge chasms would open up all over the world, giving the continents a permanent appearance.

As time went on, the world would take on a reddish tint, like Mars, as a thin layer of oxidized dust settled over everything, constantly distributed and deposited by the wind. 

There would still be wind because the atmosphere would be heated by sunlight, but no weather anymore.  Just the occasional bolt of sheet lightning or lightning, when the atmosphere builds enough charge.  

The new red face of the earth would only be marred by the eruption of volcanoes on the surface which would look from orbit, much more violent and frequent than it does now, without the oceans there to hide all the once underwater volcanoes where new seafloors are made. 

In what was the North Pacific, Tamu Massif would now be visible, a volcano formation on earth comparable in size to Olympus Mons on Mars.  

Lastly, the world would remain this way always, and no new life ever appearing again, unless a series of lucky comets carrying massive amounts of ice struck the earth and restored the Hydrosphere again, incredibly unlikely now that the solar system is established and Earth's gravity well cleared its close vicinity long ago.

  

Still, with several billion more years to go in the life of the solar system, the possibility of that happening is not zero.  That's what would happen if all the water on Earth disappeared.