There are 30 full color graphics in this high quality text book detailing the environmental problems our world is experiencing and what is causing it. This is designed to help you understand the highly technical jargon typically found in research papers and journals about the environment. We can feel helpless in the wake of severe temperatures, abnormal weather patterns, wildfires, rising atmospheric carbon content, rising oceans, land subsidence, depleting water tables, chemically damaged surface waters, pestilence, drought, and food security. Most people just want to know why this is happening and how they can help! These topics are now an almost daily event so we want to find if there is a singular connection to all of these anomalies! Everything you need to fully understand how world markets, business processes, societies in general, right down to the average user of water all have an affect on the worlds water supply. There is a mountain of current and historical research studies on every one of those events listed above, so the hope is to combine the basic premise of all those categories into a central theme about suspected water cycles that exist and most importantly make it understandable. This article is about the water table and all of the symptoms of what a lack of water can and will do if it is ignored. Water is the only compound that can safely quench heat, thirst, and drought, all at the same time, if it is present. We investigate how the serial connection of each of these problems with the water table is potentially broken, thermodynamically speaking, and explains why this is important. It appears our societies have outgrown the thermodynamic designs dating back thousands of years regarding water usage and disposal. It's time to update our thinking!