------------------------------------------------- To what extent can water shortages be dealt with on an individual level? Water is the basic necessity of life which is even more important than food. A person can live 2 weeks without food but not even 7 days without water. Since few years‚ there has been a population boom and population in present is almost twice the population before the boom. This has caused water and food crisis in many countries‚ more importantly LEDCs. Presently‚ statistics
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Water shortage may be next cause of world war While much attention and debate have been correctly focused on the impending planet-wide oil shortage‚ a far greater calamity awaits us as the reality of the looming global water crisis becomes more apparent. It is not unreasonable to wonder whether the next world war will be fought over oil or water. No resource on Earth is more precious than water. While ongoing events draw our attention to oil‚ we ignore what will become the most serious resource
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Global Fresh Water Shortage Fresh water shortage is a global issue. There are more than one hundred countries face different levels of fresh water shortage‚ and thirty years later there will be 28 to 33 hundred billion people have shortages of water. People lived in fresh water shortage countries cannot even have water to keep them alive. Because of the fresh water shortage‚ people lived near the southern Sahara desert abandoned farmland‚ and 200‚000 people died from that. Africa‚ Asia‚ North American
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“By 2015 half of the world will be short of water” Mohammed Allaf As the population of the world grows and grows and has reached the 7 billion mark‚ more and more fresh water is needed for the population to be used for drinking‚ cooking‚ washing and all the day to day uses of water. Thus trying to find fresh water has become a major threat because of the heavy consumption and need. And as this happens the poorer countries would be affected the most because of their inability to fund to
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Water Shortage Water shortage problem is when humans or living creatures suffer from a scarcity of water another definition for water shortage is either the lack of enough water or lack of access to safe water and it happens because of the dreadful use of water and polluting rivers‚ oceans and lakes. Water is the reason for our existence; Water everywhere on the planet is a basic part of the global hydrologic cycle‚ it ’s a finite resource. The amount of water supply in the global hydrologic
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the problem of water shortage in Australia. Water is the resource which is under increasing stress for most countries‚ especially for the developing countries. Australia is one of the experiencing typical water shortage countries. In Australia‚ in the recent years‚ water scarcity is a controversial and high-concerned issue since the global warming‚ land desertification‚ population growth‚ increasing use of hydropower and irrigation factors have intensified the water shortage phenomenon and affected
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Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It currently affects around 2.8 billion people around the world‚ on all continents‚ at least one month out of every year and more than 1.2 billion people lack the access to clean drinking water.[1] Water scarcity can be a result of two mechanisms: physical (absolute) water scarcity and economic water scarcity‚ where physical water scarcity is a result of inadequate natural water
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ESSAY ON WATER & ENERGY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN 1. INTRODUCTION: “Water is precious‚ use it wisely” says a notice placed in the bathroom of a five star hotel in Karachi. There could not be a sounder piece of advice but it should be given not only to the guests of the five star hotels but also to the entire citizenry of Pakistan. Pakistan is rapidly moving to the situation when it will begin to be ranked among the countries that have severe shortages of fresh water. Wise use of this precious resource
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Water Shortages Water has been one of our natural resources that we have used throughout time in many different ways. We have developed ways to make it more available and use it to create energy. However‚ because we have made it more available‚ we have developed issues that waste our good clean water‚ take old pipes that have been used to transport water across cities for example. Because they are so old‚ they tend to waste about 7 billion gallons of water every day (CQ Report‚ 2010‚ p.531). And
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Nestle I was shocked to learn that Nestle was taking one of Michigan’s most precious natural resource and destroying the area by pumping ground water at an alarming rate even after it became apparent their operations were harming the surrounding property and community. According to Nestle (2014) they are “the world ’s leading nutrition‚ health and wellness company”‚ but when it comes to the health and wellness of the communities they set up the bottling companies Nestle is more concerned with production
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