WATER SCARCITY Word Count 1519 Water scarcity is increasing worldwide and dramatically affecting first world nations such as Spain‚ Australia‚ and the United States. All nations are now starting to recognize that the world’s water is a finite resource‚ and that resource is being drastically altered in both availability and quality by development‚ climate change and population growth. In the United States‚ the Colorado River is experiencing rapid declines in volume. Recent studies and data
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POSITION PAPER 1. Thomas Robert Malthus Economic theory: In his famous treatise ’An Essay on the Principles of Population’‚ Malthus stated that‚ The populations of the world would increase in geometric proportions while the food resources available for them would increase only in arithmetic proportions. Source: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/thomas-malthus-theory-of-population.html Stand on the theory: I agree to the point that he wants to convey. The human population will increase faster
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Interlinking of rivers – A different view The Supreme Court issued a judgment on 27 th Feb 2012 to the Government of India to implement the scheme to interlink rivers. The government shall set up a high level committee on interlinking of rivers; the committee shall meet “at least‚ once in two months”; in the absence of any member the meeting shall not be adjourned; the committee shall submit a biannual report on actions to the Union Cabinet‚ “which shall take final and appropriate decisions in the
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Case Write Up: Manila Water Company Water is quickly becoming a new form of currency throughout the world. At the rate of consumption relating to the rapidly increasing population‚ the world’s water supply is quickly being diminished. In the film “Blue Gold”‚ filmmaker Sam Bozzo‚ depicts the concerns of the world’s water supply. The areas most affected with the water crisis tend to be the poor in 3rd world countries. Many of the poor spend a majority of their time acquiring clean drinking
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I. Chinese Economy The remarkable growth in China’s population and economy over the past several decades has come at a tremendous cost to the country’s environment. China has experienced an economic growth rate averaging 10 percent per year for more than 20 years. But sustained growth and the health of the country are increasingly threatened by environmental deterioration and constraints‚ particularly around water. Water is critical for economic growth and well-being; conversely‚ economic activities
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Introduction The objective of this report provide three approaches which could be implemented to mitigate the water crisis in developing country‚ and also the report takes China as an example. The first part of this report gives a brief introduction and background of the water consumption trend and the implication in this report. Secondly‚ three options are demonstrated in the following part‚ which are the South-to-North Water Diversion Project‚ monitoring system and individual behavior respectively
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1.2 Background of the study area Sunsari Morang Irrigation System (SMIS) is one of the largest irrigation project in Nepal which is aimed to irrigate 68000 ha of Sunsari and Morang district located in Eastern Terai area in Nepal. Under bi-lateral agreement between Nepal and India in 1954‚ the system was designed and constructed by Government of India from 1964 to 1973 was handed over to Nepal in 1975 after two years of trial operation(Paudel‚ 2010). The water is withdrawn through a side intake from
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How the market can keep streams flowing When many people give a speech or presentation to an audience their main objective is to break through to their audience and persuade them to side with them on their speech. In the video ‘How the market can keep streams flowing’ Rob Harmon does just that. He goes back and visits many ways water can be conserved throughout America and what we can do to potentially stop rivers and streams from drying out throughout the country. Rob Harmon puts many elements
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Bronfenbrenner’s theoretical framework challenged deficit perspectives. The author demonstrated that a range of inter-related factors may impact on an individual across different systems at any given time (e.g.‚ microsystem‚ mesosystem‚ exosystem and macrosystem). Ecological systems theory emphasises the interaction between more proximal individual factors (e.g.‚ biology‚ personality)‚ immediate environment (e.g.‚ family‚ school‚ peer group)‚ wider environment (e.g.‚ children’s services‚ socio-political
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Barlow‚ Maude February 25‚ 2008 *The* Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water Foreign Policy in Focus‚ www.fpif.org A disturbing article by Maude Barlow‚ which pertains to the building tension between countries‚ regions‚ etc. in‚regards to shared water sources. She highlights the possibilities of issues arising from disagreements in the use and treatment of water sources. Amster‚ Randall March 10‚ 2009 Water‚ Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in
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