Less than 1% of the water supply on earth can be used as drinking water.
By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
About 25,700 litres (6,800 gallons) of water is required to grow a day's food for a family of four.
A child dies every 8 seconds from water-related disease.
Groundwater can take a human lifetime just to traverse a mile.
A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water. If a human does not absorb enough water dehydration is the result.
Most of the earth's surface water is permanently frozen or salty.
If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon
When water contains a lot of calcium and magnesium, it is called hard water. Hard water is not suited for all purposes water is normally used for.
An acre of corn will give off 15,000 litres (4,000 gallons) of water per day in evaporation.
A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 75 litres of water a day.
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We do not have any more fresh water in certain areas but in near future will be gone if we keep using the water the way we do. Most of the time we don’t appreciate water just see, in yourself when you are in the bathroom. How much water do you waste in just one day? Is the question I ask every time I go to the bathroom. And then I ask myself if I waste 20 gallons of water a day, how much do I waste in one year the answer is 7300 gallons of water that I used, just me without counting the world’s population water usage, if I count it, well I had do simple math 20 gallons of water times by 7,381,940,300 world’s population will be 147,638,806,000 gallons of water waste in just one single year only used by human beings in our daily needs. Without counting the other ways, we waste water, for example, cooking, drinking, and washing the dishes etc.. As well not counting even the industry, agricultural, and electrical power used and contaminated by the human begins. For instance, the authors of the blue gold acknowledges, “The biggest threat to fresh water is pollution from thousands and thousands of factories, industrial farms, and cities that pour or leak pesticides fertilizers, and herbicides(including nitrates and phosphates), bacteria, medical waste, chemicals, and radioactive wastes in our water.”(28) Given about information the scariest thing on
65-70 percent of water is wasted throughout the world. We can reduce water loss by wasting less water, subsidizing
As small of a percentage as 3% already is, only a smaller percentage is available for human use. Of that 3% of fresh water 2% of it is stuck in glaciers, leaving 7.125 billion people to divide up 1% of Earth’s water. This 1% is Earth’s only usable water. About 70% of Earth’s usable water is used for agricultural irrigation; which leaking hoses and incorrect watering methods waste 60% of that water. To add to it, the pesticides and fertilizer used in agriculture often runs-off in to the local fresh water supply polluting it. As a result, about 1.1 billion people do not have access to water, and for at least one month out of the year, another 2.7 billion find water hard to come across. Not only is water hard to find for many, the water found is often polluted. For another 2.4 billion people, bad sanitation is an issue that exposes them to
Water shortage in United States is a potential problem. Today almost no one consider how serious the issue is. Water is the main resource of our living; we have it and do not realize how much water we waste. In U.S.A. there are over usage of water in irrigation, agriculture, industry and over usage in residential purposes. According to CBS News report (Strassmann, 2010), average American uses about 150 gallons every day, while Englishmen use 40 gallons, Chinese – 22 and Kenyan - 13 gallons. Strassmann also points out that scientists count, that consumption of water is much more than supply, so that in next three years 36 states will faced the problem of water shortage. Nowadays, Las Vegas, Texas, California, Colorado, Nevada have already run into troubles.
Some people may not know this but wasting water affects our environment. Whenever water is wasted it ends up in treatment facilities. We need water to survive yet people still waste it because to their understanding there will always be water whenever they turn on a faucet. This is one of the main reasons that water is wasted. People often waste more water than they use. “Australia uses on average 500 litres per person per day, European countries using between 200 – 400 litres and the UK using about 150 litres.” This quote from the article, “Water Conservation” explains how not just in the US but all around the world people are wasting significant amounts of water every day.
Only 2% of our globe’s water is fresh. Of that 2% only .37% is drinkable. Water scarcity is one of our world’s biggest problems because water is a non-renewable resource. We go through 900 million gallons of it everyday for household use, transportation, energy, and the consumption of material goods.
Why should we care about this topic?All of us need water everyday but many of us don't have
The population today is at an all time high which means more fresh water is being used on a person and is being wasted also. In an article written by National Geographic it says “On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your indoor use) is lost by leaks.” (National Geographic.) That is just speaking upon on household think about millions of people that this situation might affect. All that water being wasted by a leak. With us using more
Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of water on the planet. While the percentage of water in the world is nearly 70%, only 2.5% is consumable. Even further, only <1% is easily accessible to basic human needs. According to National Geographic, “by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.” With this current trend, water will become more immersed in environmental, economic, political, and social changes. Many of these in later years shall need to be addressed as tension rises:
Water is an essential nutrient that our body requires every day. Without water human life cannot be sustained. Water deprivation kills faster than lack of any other nutrient. People do not think of water as a nutrient and don’t realize the important role of water in the body functions.
Humans are mostly made up of water, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that someone should stay hydrated. If someone does not drink the right amount of water daily their bodies can become dehydrated. I had to learn this lesson
Groundwater can take hundreds or even thousands of years to become surface water. But, according to Nina Rastogi, even “Though some utilities make an effort to pump treated wastewater back into the source aquifer, most discharge it into a stream or river that eventually flows out to the ocean….” This is due to the fact that the reusing of water can significantly change the water quality. While the water cycle can help a community, it’s still only a chance that the area will get enough rain for the local reserves. According to national geographic, the increasing depletion rate of water exceeds 20% of the water falling from the sky each year. So, depending on the relationship between the consumption of water, and how long it takes for precipitation, you won’t be able to count on a deposition of rain that’ll restore balance. And while some of the consumption of water is out of our control, others are not. For example, just for one ton of steel we can waste about 75,000 gallons of water. So since a car usually have about 2150 pounds of steel, about 80,000 gallons of water are used just for one car. And then the gasoline that fuels the car, takes about 1 to 2.5 gallons of water for
Water is the most priceless resource on our planet. Billions of gallons flow through our rivers and lakes. Millions of gallons are consumed by humans each day. Our world’s surface is seventy percent water. With so much water around us, how can 1.1 billion people still lack access to clean water (Cooper, Water Shortages)? People are already using fifty four percent of all the freshwater available on this planet (Cooper, Water Shortages). We cannot afford to neglect something so essential to our very survival. We must defend our most important natural resource—water.
Water is our main source of our life. We need it to live, drink, bathe,
Many people around the world need water. Around 780 million people are unable to get clean water (One Billion Affected). People who do have access to clean water in their homes, have to pay a fee. The people who struggle to live obviously do not have enough money to buy water. People who are unable to have clean water have a good chance of dying either from disease or from dehydration. At least 3.4 million people die a year from water problems such as sanitation (One Billion Affected).