‘Blue Water’ versus ‘Green Water’

The Earth cools itself through the evaporation of water and reflects sunlight through the formation of clouds.

In this process we distinguish between ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’ water. The physical characteristics of ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’ water are exactly the same, the colors refer to the different processes in which the water is used.

‘Green Water’ is water that is released into the atmosphere by trees and plants through their leaves, this is called evapotranspiration (like we humans sweat) and is an active process by living nature.

Evaporation of water directly by the sun where no living nature is involved, we call ‘Blue Water’ and is a passive process, we simply call this evaporation.

This definition is partly inspired by the definition of Green and Blue water definition by Garrison Sposito.

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