A Clean Water In A Brave New World

Earlier this year, an obscure United Nations document, the World Water Development Report, unexpectedly made headlines around the world. The report made the startling claim that the world would face a 40 percent shortfall in freshwater in as soon as 15 years. Crops would fail. Businesses dependent on water would fail. Illness would spread. A financial crash was likely, as was deepening poverty for those just getting by.

I believe in clean water. The Industrial Revolution spurred huge advances in manufacturing along with rapid gains in productivity. However, lack of foresight and a dearth of available research into the long-term effects of many chemical processes on the water supply caused large-scale contamination of many of the water sources human settlements were reliant upon. Not only that, but the impact on wildlife in all areas of the world could not be assessed until many species’ populations were damaged beyond repair or wiped out entirely.

The United States CWA, as previously explained, has many positive and negative effects. When thinking ethically and environmentally, supporting the CWA and encouragement for the spread worldwide comes rather simply. Aldo Leopold once said, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends to otherwise” (Maus, 2017) This land ethic approach helps prove that the CWA is a good thing for this world. Some may argue that it is causing harm and is bad because all of the problems, but according to the land ethic, it is good because it trying to preserve the quality of our water and in return the quality of our lives and the world (Maus, 2017). Furthermore, supporters of the CWA are taking the precautionary principle into consideration. The precautionary principle is basically preparing for the worst and taking action to prevent a harmful event from taking place. We can all agree that water is a necessity for life, and that it is very important to make sure that necessity never vanishes. Everyone and everything in this world needs clean water, and this causes the CWA to have many stakeholders; the CWA is so controversial because it has an impact in everyone’s life. Clean water is taken for granite in the United States, and the CWA has had a positive impact in helping prevent water degradation and improve the overall water quality and ecosystem. The controversial part is that the purpose of the CWA gets

The Earth has a very limited supply of fresh water, so it is up to us to make sure that we look after it and use it wisely. Water has many uses for things such as growing agricultural crops and cattle. It is also used for hygiene (showering, dental, etc) and everyday household use. Water can easily be taken for granted, but it is up to the people who use it to be water conscience. Although it may not seem important because of it mass size, but the ocean needs to be checked

The severe health concerns and effects from poor water and sanitation have drawn the attention not only of small international organizations like Water.org, but also of the United Nations, which declared the years of 2005 to 2015 as the Water for Life Decade. Its goal was to “bring attention to the lack of access to clean water and sanitation systems.” In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly reaffirmed their efforts when they passed a resolution which recognized the human right to have access to clean water and sanitation. However, there are still over 663 million people who need access to clean water. The attempt to garner international recognition to this dearth of access was to bring awareness to the number of obstacles people who had

Fresh water is a vital resource that has been on everyone’s minds around the world for a number of years. We are always in demand of clean drinking water and globally there are millions of people who have little to no access to any. It was discovered that icebergs contain huge amounts of fresh water, a seemingly untapped resource that could be taken advantage of. In 1980, Terry Spragg constructed an idea to transport icebergs across the ocean in order to use this source of clean water.

At first glance, it seems ridiculous that humanity is running out of usable freshwater, considering the amount of water on the Earth. In a way, the problem with water is similar to the problem of fixed nitrogen that the Haber-Bosch system helped to solve. Like nitrogen, water surrounds people, yet humanity cannot use the majority of it in the form it occurs abundantly in. The vast majority of water on Earth is not functional for human consumption. In fact, people can only safely drink less than one percent of Earth’s entire water supply as it naturally occurs (Keller 432). Additionally, much of this fractional amount has been contaminated in one way or another to be rendered useless, or improperly managed, leading to excessive waste of it (Green 108). As of a report released in 2014 by the World Health Organization and

The oceans on the global are our most important factor in providing water. Not only do they provide as a source for us to live on but also has life among it. Various species live among the ocean such as fish, sharks, whales, otters, plants, etc. Yet, why is it that we don 't keep our most important water resource clean towards its environment? Water contamination is an epidemic that is still rising in our world and creating multiple struggles, even towards survival.

Since the beginning of time fresh water has been a necessity for life, but only in recent years has the resource started to trickle away. This has been caused by the population explosion of the past few decades and the industrialization of the world. It is very simple to understand that there is only a certain amount of fresh water on the planet and when the demand for it exceeds the supply, you are going to run out of the fresh water. With the population more than doubling in the past decade just means more thirsty people and the need for more food. With the world being industrialized, more and more factories and companies need water for cooling and powering their machines. This is causing unprecedented water consumption and the Earth cannot keep up.

In today’s world, the access to clean water is unspeakably easy. Technology has revolutionized what it means to get clean water that is safe to drink, shower in, and play in. The water that is consumed by humans comes from water treatment plants, making it perfectly safe. Many people don’t think about where their water comes from, or the process it has to go through in order for it to be consumable. However, many countries do not have access to clean drinking water. In other places, people have to clean their own water using the sun to kill bacteria. This process is called the SODIS process.

Have you ever had a dog that gets their water bowl dirty or spills the water? Dogs need water all the time and every day of their life, but it has to be fresh, clean water. Clean water is very important to animals, especially dogs because they exercise and run so much. If they don’t get enough water, they can get dehydrated or even die. Some people don’t give dogs clean enough water or even not enough. The cleanness of water is very important to dogs, dogs help with hunting and sports, they also can be trained or be taught to do something, but the can also get very dehydrated or get very ill.

Human rights ensures that the basic needs of a human are provided equally to all individuals regardless of monetary stature, religion or race (Spronk, 2014) Access to clean water should be a human right because without water there would be no human life on this planet. However, not every human is blessed with the access to clean water. Moreover, the lack of clean water is transforming from a limitation to an enormous threat (Spronk, 2014). Therefore, this paper will look into the water war that happened in Bolivia, and other Latin American countries such as Argentina, and shine a light on neoliberalism and capitalism. The paper will also provide some suggestion on how to prevent the privatization of water, and lastly, will look into the aftermath of Bolivia 's water war, and whether or not it met the MDGs. Furthermore, water is a natural resource that should not be bought or privatized by companies because it does more harm than good. For example, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, it caused a water war movement that killed the lives of many, and although the war ended and water was no longer privatized, it still left a permanent scar that will never be forgotten.

In the United States, there is one trillion gallons of water wasted (Mooney). Water is being wasted every day in the US by: leaky faucets, malfunctioning toilets and faulty sprinkler systems. While water is being wasted in the US, many underdeveloped countries such as Kenya struggle to have clean water. Many of the Kenyan residents struggle every day to find a clean water source. In the continent of Africa there lies Kenya with a population approximately of forty-six million people. A little over seventeen million people do not have access to clean safe water. More than 30 million people do not have access to a decent sanitary system. Half of the Kenyan

‘The shortage in the supply of clean water is a looming crisis in some regions of the world.’ Discuss the causes and consequences.

Water is the source of life and comes from the origin, humans have been using water for various purposes. Since civilizations first started appearing it centered around a source of water. When civilizations came around they caused deforestation which lead to rises to floods, annual run-off levels and also affects on-stream flow. In many parts of the world, humans obtain water supplies by pumping from ground water; it reduces level of water table and the replacement of coastal areas’ fresh water by salt water (ocean water) which isn’t that great to drink. As fresh water is slowing (not really slowly but vastly) being depleted we will soon be left only with salt water. Fresh water has been tasted and is showing different chemicals and substances within the water which can lead to diseases. Waste has constantly been dumped or disposed of back into the river. In the article by Franz-Josef Bruggemier states “The new industries, mainly iron and steel works and coal mines, consumed large quantities of water… After use, the industries poured the wastewater back into these rivers without any attempt at treatment.” (Bruggemier &Universitat, 1994, p 37) Even during the industrial revolution people constantly abused the water without thinking of how it was going to further affect the water for the future. Fish within the water are having some gender transitions, male fish are starting to have female organs. In the documentary For the Love of Water by Irena Salina there is a Gandhian