Is there sufficient water in Lake Baikal in Russia to feed the whole 6 billion population on earth?
Lake Baikal and the US/Canadian Great Lakes together account for more than 40% of all of the fresh surface water (roughly 20% each – but estimates vary for each). Whether or not either or both of those lakes contain enough water for the entire world’s population is not a particularly useful question. There is no way to distribute that water around the world. The resources used to build pipelines through or Asia and Europe or the energy used to ship it like oil would be unsustainable. As you drained a lake system, you would create an entirely new set of environmental disasters.
