Although we have the common sense that water is an essential substance that for the survival of life, we know that the 71% of The Earth surface is covered by water. Therefore, it seems we should not too worry about one day there is no enough water for human.
But the fact is that 97.5% of the earth's water is saltwater, only less than 0.5% is usable, unpolluted clean water. Due to the overpopulation, mass consumption, misuse and pollution, severe water crisis exists in many regions in the world-wide. It becomes a major global problem existing in not only poor developing countries, but the rich developed countries such as Australia, Spain, UK and US are suffering from such water scarce. There are about 1 billion people are routinely drinking unhealthy water and more worse, every year there are 5 million deaths because of the polluted drinking water.
In China, The Yellow River which is providing water to 12 percent of China's population, is facing contamination from industrial, farm and household waste; more badly, it falls to its lowest level in 50 years. As a result, millions of people in Northern China face water shortages this summer. In order to solve such problem, Chinese government spends a lot of money on water treatment and in addition, they raised a new law which will facilitate better management of the water resourse and reduce certain conflicts over water from the Yellow River in related regions. What is more, such law will impose sanctions or fines on officials who violate regulations.
In America, within the next five years, at least thirty-six U.A. states will face water shortage due to the result of global warming such as climate change and the rising of sea level.
In Middle East region, nine countries: Israel, Egyptian, Jordan, Turkey, Uganda, Morocco, Oman, Palestine and Syria with some of the highest birth-rates in the world share one water resource - the Nile River. Even worse, as there is no adequate international law to define and regulate how to share water resources, there are conflicts arisen, even worse, some experts predict that possible wars may happen as each country wants to protect their own water resources.
According to FAO’s prediction, by 2030, one in five developing countries mainly the Near East, North Africa and parts of Asia will face water shortage, and such water crisis can cause food crises as the biggest and most important water user is agriculture. Hence, it is undoubted that the water shortage is highly related to the social and economic concerns.
Thus, it is absolutely essential for government to find solutions for water scarcity to deal with the ageing infrastructure, contaminants and inefficient irrigation. Besides, it is also absolutely necessary for government to guide the public to save water in their daily lives.
Let’s act from now to save our Earth, our lives!
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Hey grace.good job so far on blog.I think this topic is interesting and useful for many people.I think water shortage may not be very popular at the moment but i think soon it will as nowdays we are affected by Global warming and many people are not saving water.I think for istance my home country(malaysia) does not have this problem unless if there is lack of rain but it does not happend that often. I think like Australia water shortage is a huge issue as the land is dry and its a huge country.Due to this the goverment has to given the communtiy alot of restrictions of the usage of water.If they dont take notice on this issue the whole country will suffer from water shortage.I think there are also other countries that has the similiar issue.I was quite suprise that china is affected by water shortage.It didnt occur to me that china had this problem.I think everyone should be more cautios of saving water and should start caring about the environment before its too late.=)
You've done a good job of research.
I remeber there was TV interview on NZYV channel 3. A woman was interviewed and expressed her knowledge about where the water from. Simply from the sky, she said. It is free. She made a statement that water supple should be free of charge. She refused to pay her water bill for many years. I wish she would have had a look at your blog.
Your post - World water shortage makes me re-think about the relationship between human beings and the environment we live in. Do human beings really have the ownership of the environment? Or the environment decides if we are able to survive.
Hi, deli and aw
The reason of chosing the topic of water shortage is that I want to improve people's awareness of such world-wide problem. Though it is not a problem now in some countries like Deli mentioned Malsysia, many countries are surffing from the water shortage.
As Aw wrote, some people are not aware about the servere problems that may cause by the lack of water. Our human beings are wasting the natural resources, pulluting the environment without thinking about the serious results.
I wonder how can future generations survive?
Hey awe i like to comment on your last posting.. i think we cant 100 percent blame the environment.maybe its more like 50/50.I think humans are also to be blame because they waste alot of water and they just polute the land but at the same time its also the environment as well because in some countries it does not rain that much.i think this can be arguable but i think in my view we cant completely blame the environment as wel and the people .Ithink people can just try thier best not to polute the land too much.this may help the environment.
Hi grace, good stuff! I think this is a very interesting topic. As we humans depend on water for more than just our nutrition and washing nowadays, even our electricity in NZ is generated by water which is what makes water awareness is even more relevant to us NZ residents. AW I think your forgetting something, its not nature that decides whether we will survive or not, nature cant think, it has no brain, there's a God that controls everything.. Don't you think? It certainly makes more sense.
Hi, Grace.Your writing is interesting to me coz I'm interested in some Global Warmig problems such as drought, water shortage and releasing carbon dioxide etc. Once, I read an article about water shortage in Times. A river which was in Africa was already dried up so it led to lots of refugees and a reason of the civil war. Many Africans are suffering because of water shortage. Like this, water is one of essential substance for humans' lives as you mentioned. Also,the people who use water abundantly haven't been aware that water shortage is a serious problem yet.I strongly symphathize with your view. I think we all should try to solve this problem together.
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