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Originally Posted by Thoguht
A lot of the ocean is just gone - where to we shall probably never know, but there are precedents in fiction for the Earth to be plundered for its water.
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I've never cared much for that storyline. There are plenty of other places just in our solar system where you can get water without having to wrestle against a gravity well the size of Earth's. Saturn's moon Enceladus is literally spraying the stuff into space, and there are an uncountable number of comets wandering around the Oort Cloud.
Perhaps the ocean water is trapped in the polar ice caps, and Japan is one of the few places that's still warm enough for people to live.