Topic: Facing the Freshwater Crisis
Author: Peter Rodgers
Main Points:
Author: Peter Rodgers
Main Points:
- Policymakers worldwide wield great power over how water sources are managed.
- Use of power will be important as the years go by because the world's demand for freshwater is overtaking its ready supply in many places.
- 1/6 people suffer inadequate access to safe freshwater.
- By 2025, freshwater resources of more than half the countries across the globe will undergo stress or shortages.
- By midcentury, as much as 3/4 of population could face scarcities of freshwater.
- Scientists expect water scarcity to become more common because the world's population is rising and many people are getting richer and because global climate change is exacerbatering aridity and reducing supply in many regions
- Water sources threatened by faulty waste disposal, industrial pollutants, fertilizer runoff and coastal influxes of saltwater into aquifers as groundwater is depleted.
- Lack of water leads to starvation, disease, political instability and armed conflict.
- Technology required to conserve exists
- Governments and authorities have to formulate and execute concrete plans for implementing the political, economic and technological measures that can ensure water security.
- Solving water problems requires understanding how much freshwater each person requires along with knowledge of the factors that impede supply and increase demand in different parts of the world.
- Each person requires 1,000 cubic meters of water per year.
- Distribution of global water resources varies widely.
- Providing water is challenging in drier, underdeveloped and developing nations with large populations.
- Rivers are overtaxed and regularly peter out for long periods
- Levels of underground aquifers are falling
- Shortages of freshwater are growing more common in developed countries
- Droughts have left many cities and towns in the northern part of Georgia and the Southwest scrambling for water.
- Ability to pay for water plays a major role for availability of water
- Struggle for freshwater has contributed to civil and military disputes in the area
- Demand for water varies from places to place.
- Demand rise with population size and growth rate. Tends to go up with income level
- Richer groups consume more water.
Author's Point:
The author outline for how governments, authorities and policymakers worldwide can manage and conserve our freshwater better. If we continue not containing freshwater, 3/4 of population could face scarcities of it. This article shows solutions and problems in regards to the care of freshwater. A problem with conserving freshwater is that the world would have to spend $1 trillion a year for technologies, maintaining and replacing infrastructure, and designing sanitation systems. A solution for conserving water is to hold some of it that is not used for irrigation underground. Detaining it in dams would leave it defenseless against evaporation. Holding it in underground tanks would decrease the rate of evaporation by a lot. A reason responsible for people not caring for water is the price. The solution to that problem would be to raise prices.
The author outline for how governments, authorities and policymakers worldwide can manage and conserve our freshwater better. If we continue not containing freshwater, 3/4 of population could face scarcities of it. This article shows solutions and problems in regards to the care of freshwater. A problem with conserving freshwater is that the world would have to spend $1 trillion a year for technologies, maintaining and replacing infrastructure, and designing sanitation systems. A solution for conserving water is to hold some of it that is not used for irrigation underground. Detaining it in dams would leave it defenseless against evaporation. Holding it in underground tanks would decrease the rate of evaporation by a lot. A reason responsible for people not caring for water is the price. The solution to that problem would be to raise prices.
My thoughts:
After reading this article the water conservation is one of the primary way to settle arguments around the world. One of the many reasons there are wars occurring between countries is because of water. If wealthier nations could find the heart to fund poorer countries, they could use that money to get water which. Also, people should be educated about this issue. Education could compel the public to care for the freshwater that they account for.
After reading this article the water conservation is one of the primary way to settle arguments around the world. One of the many reasons there are wars occurring between countries is because of water. If wealthier nations could find the heart to fund poorer countries, they could use that money to get water which. Also, people should be educated about this issue. Education could compel the public to care for the freshwater that they account for.
So what?
Water is a meaning of life for us with out water many of us would end up dead.
What if?
we all have water supplies for everyone.
Says who?
Peter Rodgers
What does this remind me of?
That one video about water in Africa and many of them fight and pay for their own water supplies.
Water is a meaning of life for us with out water many of us would end up dead.
What if?
we all have water supplies for everyone.
Says who?
Peter Rodgers
What does this remind me of?
That one video about water in Africa and many of them fight and pay for their own water supplies.