# Is the planet Earth losing water? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 12, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-losing-water/846305 "2020-01-12T12:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-losing-water/846305/21 "2020-01-13T09:34:41Z")
According that BBC link, the rate of water loss is so low in the current era that it would take trillions of years to lose our oceans if the rate remained the same. Of course, once the Earth heats up in a billion years, the rate of loss will change significantly. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-losing-water/846305/22 "2020-01-13T17:14:10Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > A billion years doesn’t really cause me much existential angst. This is the kind of boomeresque short-range thinking that got us where we are today! ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-losing-water/846305/23 "2020-01-14T03:23:48Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yes, I’m betting that most of us here watched _Cosmos_. Maybe many here have. I haven’t. My cultural history is laced with millions and millions of holes. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-planet-earth-losing-water/846305.md?page=1)