Essay’s topic: Water scarcity is one of the key environmental issue of our time. Identify some major causes of water scarcity and describe two solutions. Water plays an important role in developing and maintaining healthy ecosystems. However‚ water scarcity is an increasing and widespread phenomenon in many countries in the world. Water scarcity refers to either the lack of enough water or lack of access to safe water. The shortage of water is turning out to be more pressing than prediction. This
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The causes of water pollution Water pollution comes from a myriad of sources‚ both natural and from human activity. The most destructive causes of water pollution are man made‚ however. The largest sources include: The burning of coal in power plants emits ash particulates that contain toxic metals like arsenic and lead. Coal and petroleum also contain sulfur compounds. Combustion generates sulfur dioxide‚ a toxic gas‚ and oxides of nitrogen. When emitted from exhaust stacks‚ these two compounds
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9/19/2014 Water scarcity - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Water scarcity From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.[1] Water scarcity involves water stress‚ water shortage or deficits
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The importance of water: Water is the most wanted or used resource in the entire world‚ due to its demand. It is wanted and needed by everyone for various reasons‚ some of these reasons are for everyday things like drinking in order to suvive‚ cooking cleaning‚ technology and even basic things like gardning. It also helps with poverty ‚ health‚ hunger and education. Water is a blessing. If we did not have water neither of us will be here‚ so why are we thanking it by missusing or wasting it for
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Water Conservation Water is essential to Earth. We need it to cook‚ bathe‚ provide power‚ control fire‚ and last but not least‚ we need it to live! Therefore‚ it is very important to human survival. When 70% of Earth is made up of water‚ you would think that we have plenty of water for our needs. But really‚ about 97% of that water is made up of ocean. We cannot use this water because it is too saline for our needs. Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh‚ and 2% of that supply is frozen
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Water is continuously being recycled in a process called the water cycle. All living things on earth need water to survive. The water cycle has no starting point and no end point. Earth’s water is always in movement and always changing forms‚ it can go from a liquid to a solid to a gas and back to a liquid. The water cycle is how we track movement of water above‚ in and on the earth. The water cycle consists of three major processes‚ condensation‚ evaporation and precipitation. Condensation is the
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Water pollution and pollution in general is a problem that people don’t like to deal with. Water pollution can cause so much damage to people and to the animals that live in that body of water. The laws that we have are doing what they need to but we need to monitor the water more closely because if we don’t catch the pollution when it happens it could cause a big disaster. It could kill all of the plant life that lives in the water and the animals that live there to. Some of the pollutions that
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Access to water is an essential human need therefore; it is a basic human right. An adequate amount of safe water is necessary to prevent death from dehydration‚ and it is also used for personal hygienic requirements‚ and to simply keep sanitized. For most people across the world‚ this is very effortless and common; however for some of the unfortunates‚ access to water is a very difficult task for them. The water crisis is possibly the most severe human threat of our time‚ and the first and most
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The earth has a limited amount of water.That water keeps going around and around and around in what we call the "Water cycle".It is the only way that Earth can be continually supplied with fresh water.The sun is the most important part of renewing our water supply.It can be solid (ice)‚a liquid (water)‚ or gas (water vapor). Water on earth is always changing. How do these changes happen? It is made up of a few main parts:evaporation (and transpiration)‚condensation and precipitation. Evaporation
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M. Visvesvarayya‚ Linganmakki Dam‚ built across river Sharavathi is being used for power generation. Before the onset of monsoon‚ when there is not much water in the Linganmakki dam‚ the "mighty" Jog Falls are nearly unrecognizable. Instead of the roar and the spray and the massive flow of water‚ there are only a pair of thin streams of water trickling down the cliff. If you happen to ask any of the local people what happened to the falls‚ they would tell you that the authorities open the dam only
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