Only 2.5% of the world's water is too salty to use. Most of it is trapped in icecaps and glaciers, so we can't even get to most of the fresh water. We need to increase our fresh water in the next two centuries because the amount of water we can use is decreasing. All across the world, one in five people don't have access to clean drinking water. Not only that 30,000 children die before reaching their 5th birthdays because they die of thirst. This sounds sad, but it is 100% true. This problem is rising because of the major increase in population and the demand for better living conditions. Also, we waste a lot of water. We let water run in our sinks for a long time, and we use very clean water for things we don't need it for. But the major reason for water shortage if pollution. Since everyone litters, and puts chemicals in our water, then it kills our chances for having clean water in the future. Scientists are looking for solutions for these problems; but it will take a very long time for us to master these solutions. The major solution they are looking at is distillation. It is the removal of salt from water. It is cost-effective and is very easy to do. But it will take a while and may kill our aquatic life. The UNEP said, "The environment remains largely outside the mainstream of everyday human consciousness, and is still considered an add-on to the fabric of life." Overall, This is becoming a problem and we need to fix this.
Opinion: Overall, water shortage is a very serious topic. All of our main necessities for life are made of water or include it. Water is just a major resource that we need to preserve. In my opinion, we need to conserve all the water we can before its too late... meaning we won't have anymore water. The thing that hit me most is that 30,000 kids die before their 5th birthday, since they suffer with thirst. I almost started to cry just thinking about this because if kids don't get to live just because of a simple-fixing problem; then we are failing as a world. Everyone should have a chance to live their life; and not suffer because of water shortage.
Questions:
1. What do you think about the whole water- shortage problem?
2. Do you think it can be easily fixed? why or why not?
3. What do you think you can do to help with water shortage?
This picture shows what children around the world are doing to get water. They think its clean, but in reality, it can be much much cleaner.
It's terrible that kids barely get a life and can't be kids and relax, instead they have to spend all their time trying to get enough water to get by. I think distilation would be a great idea, if they can fix the posibility of killing marine life, because in my opinion, saving human lives by killing off animals isn't fixing the issue at all. Hopefully one day in the future we can think of a safe way to help these poor kids.
ReplyDeleteQuestions-
1:I think that it's awful that so many kids are unable to survive past childhood because of the lack of clean water
2-No because the ways that we have thought of are costly and time killing. So we need to come up with easier, cheaper ways to take care of the problem
3-Dontate money to help build filters, or send in ideas for getting cleaner water