In this book the author, Salman and Bradlow provide a foundations for water resource management. The book includes importance and similarity to water legislation within different countries and legislations. The authors encompass relvancy to elements that highlight the upcoming involvement of water legislation. Some issues that are presented with in the context are the representation of different regions and the legal systems of the international world. This is a relevant book as for water resources and management is a primary issue within the topic of choice and a resource in a manner of this is very rich in the details of elements that are right on key fact to be portayed in the overall outcome. These two authors have had extensive research and help from colleagus to provide detailed and valuable information with the funding being provided by the Bank- Netherlands Water Partnership Program (BNWPP). Maxwell, S., & Yates, S. (2011). Future of Water: A Startling Look Ahead . Denver: American Water Works Association. In this book the authors go into explicit facts about our history at about 100 years ago and what improvements that the government was did to create reservoirs that would flourish the far west with the resources it was deprived of. The book also analogies the future of what our everyday house hold choir could be eventually erased, as in the watering of our yard grass and flowers. These author also introduces the existence of that there is more than plenty of water to sustain the lives we currently live but also mentions that in areas it’s not being replenished as fast as it is being retrieved from the source. This book is suited for the research within the scope of the fact that water usage might develop and ... ... middle of paper ... ...kely to use boreholes for consuming water and less likely to buy drinking water from vendors. The journal article also indicates that households are more frequently to trap rainwater for private usage. The article shows that larger urban towns collected data showing that the collecting water from piped and non-piped sources showed little to no difference. This journal article is relevant to the usage of human water by the health concerns and the environment research that in portrays within the text. The authors have multiple resources that they have constructed this piece of work and the authors have many other credible articles. Hawke, S. (2012). Water literacy: An ‘other wise’, active and cross-cultural approach to pedagogy, sustainability and human rights.Continuum: Journal Of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(2), 235-247. doi:10.1080/10304312.2012.664120
Maude Barlow’s “Water Incorporated: The Commodification of the World’s Water” gives a voice to a very real, but vastly unknown, issue: the privatization of water. I refer to it as vastly unknown because it wasn’t until this article that I was even aware such a power struggle existed. Barlow first introduces startling statistics, meant to grab the attention of its readers. Once she has your attention, she introduces the “new generation of trade and investment agreements.” (306)
Humans need water. In a world that is overpopulated, we use a lot of water and other natural resources. Currently, in our world, clean water is getting scarce. Recently, for example, Flint, Michigan, had a water crisis. In early 2016, the water was discovered to be tainted with lead and other toxins. Long before that, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and Governor Rick Snyder along with his council, knew about the lead, but to save money for the city of Flint in early 2014 Snyder had changed the city’s water source to the Flint River which had corroded pipes, causing people of all ages to be sick from the high amounts of lead
The ability to obtain abundant, pure water is a basic requirement for an individual’s well-being. Likewise, access to abundant, safe water is also indispensable for resilient agricultural crops as well as a thriving national economy. These requirements for pure water are so substantial that disputes amongst regional groups, states, as well as nations arise on a frequent basis regarding the rights to various water sources.
All of the case studies presented show a unique mixture of issues stemming from property rights, public goods, externalities, interjurisdictional spillovers and a fantastic illustration of Coase Theorem and Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons. Water usage and rights are a pertinent and urgently growing issue that often pits economic development, sustenance and environmental health externalities at odds with each other.
In the documentary, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, it follows several people and countries world-wide in their fight for fresh water. The film exposes giant corporations as they bully poorer developing countries to privatize their own supply of fresh water. As a result of the privatization, corporations make a hefty profit while the developing countries remain poor. Blue Gold: World Water Wars also highlights the fact that Wall Street investors are going after the desalination process and mass water export schemes. This documentary also shows how people in more developed nations are treating the water with much disregard, and not taking care of our finite supply. We are polluting, damming, and simply wasting our restricted supply of fresh water at an alarming speed. The movie also recognizes that our quick overdevelopment of housing and agriculture puts a large strain on our water supply and it results in desertification throughout the entire earth. The film shows how people in more industrialized nations typically take water for granted, while others in less industrialized nations have to fight for every drop.
Sheaffer, John R., and Leonard A. Stevens. Future Water. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983.
This is because only a small part of the population, particularly in developing countries, have access to water of acceptable quality. It is estimated that in some countries only 20% of the rural population has water of satisfactory quality. Based on these statistics, it is clear the urgent need for awareness about caring for water use. Almost without realizing it, we are seriously jeopardizing this essential resource, not for us but for our children's children and their generations, aware that in other parts o...
There is no reservation in saying that water issues are a certainly a global phenomenon. Depending on where you are situated in the world, water concerns range from drought due to climate change to pollution and privatization. Unfortunately for us, these concerns are not mutually exclusive either. This paper, however, is focused with the ethical implications of water privatization specifically with the commodification of bottled water. Water privatization is best understood as the private sector (as opposed to the public sector) participating and competing in the acquisition, sanitation and sale of water. Essentially, turning what is public good into an economic good. Bottled water has rapidly emerged as ubiquitous international commodity due to globalization. Nestle, the largest supplier of bottle water worldwide, is often at the forefront of criticism and contention when it comes to water commodification at both the national and international scale. This approach has justifiably lead to criticisms that companies, like Nestle, prey on socially and politically vulnerable regions (or those believed to be least politically and socially resistant) for their freshwater resources and because this, it adversely affects local communities by limiting their access, increasing freshwater prices, and degrading the environment. In this paper, I will argue that the commodification of water violates the ethical principal that access to clean water is a right. I will look through two ethical lenses: utilitarianism and deontology.
We abuse water in the United States because we are never without it but what we don’t realize is that Water is a scarce resource and it’s clear that humanity is facing a critical water crisis. There are more than 2000 million people affected by water shortages in over 40 countries. As population continues to increase, the situation will only get worse. The resources that are available to us are getting highly polluted by human and industrial waste and effecting economically. Many big lakes and rivers are being seriously polluted and half of the wetlands in the world are disappearing. Water Bourne diseases have been a leading source of death because 7 million people don’t have access to clean pure water. We need to conserve as much water as possible because there are thousands of people in the world that are dying of dehydration which is actually a major cause of illness in the world.
"Water Pollution." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 5 May 2014.
The use of water became a critical component of the development of the world, particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth century (Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada 2001). Water control and an assured water supply became essential requirements of continuing economic and social development of any nation.
The amount of water has been shrinking steadily but with extreme increases in population growth and consumption rate, countries in dry areas specifically the Middle East will feel the colossal effects of a water shortage. Since 1950, the population of the Middle East has risen by 21% a...
Introduction on Water It covers 70% of our planet, makes up 75% of our body, it is necessary for survival and it is declining at a rapid rate (http://www.sscwd.org). It is water. Unfortunately, clean water is rare, almost 1 billion people in developing countries do not have access to water everyday. “Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles” (The Water Project). Use of earth’s natural resources should be seen as prosperity, although it is taken for granted, every aspect of daily life revolves around the environment, forcing water conservation to be necessary for future on this planet.
Miller, Debra A. Will the World Run out of Fresh Water? Detroit: Greenhaven, 2007. Print.
"Water Crisis." World Water Council. 7th World Water Council, 2012. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/library/archives/water-crisis/