Water Crisis Western water consumption has spiraled out of control. The average American house uses about 300 gallons of water a day (Green). According to United Nations Development Programme, “An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.”(Green) Women in western countries have it easy compared to those in developing countries who “spend 200 million hours a day collecting water for domestic use” (Green). WHO/UNICEF estimates the manpower equivalency to building 28 Empire State buildings each day. Surveys from 45 developing countries show that women and children bear the primary responsibility for water collection in the majority of households (Millions…). Gary White, co-founder of Water.org estimates, “The lost productivity of people collecting water is greater than the combined number of hours worked in a week by employees at Wal*Mart, United Parcel Service, McDonald’s, IBM, Target, and Kroger.” As stated on the CDC website, “Water is considered to be the most important resource for sustaining ecosystems, which provide life-supporting services for people, animals, and plants. Because contaminated water is a major cause of illness and death, water quality is a determining factor in human poverty, education, and economic opportunities.” (Global WASH) Various factors influence the decline of water quality: “population growth, rapid urbanization, land use, industrial discharge of chemicals, and factors resulting from climate change” (Global WASH) According to water.org, 780 million people lack access to clean water in addition to 3.4 million people dying each year from water related diseases, mainly occurring in the developing world (Million... ... middle of paper ... ...rden." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH), 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 6 May 2013. "Green/Environmental Stats." Statistic Brain. Go Green, Green Living, 12 Nov. 2011. Web. 6 May 2013. "Millions Lack Safe Water." Water.org. Water.org, 2013. Web. 6 May 2013. Scholtus, Petz. "The US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every Second, a fact by Watershed." Tree Hugger. Watershed, 15 Oct. 2009. Web. 6 May 2013. Scott, Matt. "40 Shocking Facts About Water." Matador Network. N.p., 30 June 2009. Web. 6 May 2013. Streeter, A.K. "We Use How Much Water? Scary Water Footprints, Country by Country." Tree Hugger. N.p., 24 June 2009. Web. 6 May 2013. "Water Cooperation." UN Water. 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013. Web. 6 May 2013. Woods, Amanda. "The Cost of Bottled Water." Suite 101. N.p., 10 June 2009. Web. 6 May 2013.
To begin, the article, “Water Water Everywhere-in Bottles,” the author uses logos to show that the water bottle industry and the soda industry are competing. Because there are so many different brands of water, the water industry is set to outsell the soda industry. The article shows many facts about water bottles and how they compare to soda such as, “Between 2000 and 2014, capita bottled water consumption more than doubled to 34.02
It is imperative that domestic water provided for direct consumption and ingestion through food must be sanitary. Scientific research indicates that as many as 19 million Americans may become ill each year due to parasites, viruses a...
4. United Nations Development Programme, U.N. Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty, and the Global Water Crisis, web. 6 Dec. 2009 http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr2006_english_summary.pdf
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...
The US Container Recycling Institute estimates that 67 million plastic water bottles are discarded every day, enough plastic water bottles to wrap around the planet 149 times each year. Indeed, plastic water bottles should be banned from use by the public. The usage of water bottles should be suppressed because they are unimaginably dangerous, wasteful, expensive, and rarely recycled.
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.
Clean water is needed for good human and animal health, but as DoSomething.org states, over 1 billion people worldwide don’t have a means of getting clean drinking water, an...
Freshwater is quite scarce, but it is even scarcer than one might think: about seventy percent of all freshwater is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland and is unavailable to humans. Most of the remainder is present as soil moisture or lies in deep underground aquifers as groundwater. It is not economically feasible to extract this waster for use as drinking water. This leaves less than one percent of the world’s fresh water that is available to humans. It includes the water found in lakes, reservoirs, groundwater that is shallow enough to be tapped at an affordable cost. These freshwater sources are the only sources that are frequently replenished by rain and snowfall, and therefore are renewable. At the current rates of consumption, however, this supply of fresh water will not last. Pollution and contamination of freshwater sources exacerbate the problem, further reducing the amount of freshwater available for human consumption. Something must be done if humans want to even survive in the near future: the lack of clean drinking water is already the number one cause of disease in the world today. The first step is worldwide awareness of the water crisis: governments and the citizens they govern worldwide need to know about this problem and be actively involved in solving this problem.
Approximately 844 million people (one tenth of the population) in the world do not have access to clean and 2.3 billion do not have access to a decent toilet. This poor sanitation and contaminated water quality is the cause of death for over 289 000 children under the age of 5 every year.
Having clean water to drink means that water must have microbial, chemical and physical characteristics that meet WHO guidelines or national standards on drinking water quality. Around 780 million people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water (Millions Lack Safe Water). More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in developing countries. Around the world, diseases in unclean water kill about 1,400 children every day (Clean Drinking Water). There are many organizations that raise money in order to help develop ways or create ways for people to obtain clean drinking water. However, many people are unaware that this is even a problem in other countries because we take clean water for granted.
Safe water and sanitation as a basic human right, household water treatment, rainwater harvesting ... and reports from Kyoto, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Guinea and other countries around the world.
Cunningham, William, and Mary Ann Cunningham. "Chapter 18: Water Pollution." Environmental Science. ; A Global Concern. 12th ed. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2011. 396-421. Print.
One main causes of water scarcity is water mismanagement worldwide. Water mismanagement has become a crisis of governance that will impact heavily ...
"Water Crisis & Solutions." Water Crisis & Solutions. Water For People, 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. http://www.waterforpeople.org/extras/crisis/water-crisis-and-solutions.html