Human And Environmental Factors Of Iraq's Water Poverty In Iraq

According to the International Water Management Institute environmental research organisation global water stress is increasing, and a third of all people face some sort of water scarcity. Where demand exceeds supply and no effective management operates, there will be conflicts between the various players involved.

According to the Ministry of Water And Electricity 2014 annual report, Saudi Arabia’s groundwater and dams are only composes 40% of their water supply. Saudi Arabia’s civilization is located in a hot, arid climate. For years they have had trouble developing their country by advancing their agriculture to improve and sustain their economy. Consequently they now are facing a severe lack of water Saudi Arabia con only “provide 76 cubic meters about 20,000 gallons per person per year, far below the generally accepted 500 cubic meters per person per year of absolute scarcity.”() But with ineffective use of water, 80% of the freshwater they have is used for agriculture, industry and daily consumption each year. With so little water, this country is in a predicament and needs to find a new method to desalinate water and improve its effectiveness. However, methods like hoarding other countries resources have caused a negative side effect to the citizens of these affected states, putting at risk there resources, money, and lifestyle. There new methods are having negative consequences towards others. The way Saudi Arabia has been approaching water scarcity, will not administer the response they were looking for and solve the lack of water that is crucial in the development of their civilization.

Increased access to improved water sources and sanitation facilities is the key to bringing these countries out of poverty and into prosperity. Water is essential to life on Earth and has thus been declared a human right by the UN. The US has not yet formally acknowledged this human right, a right which, if ignored, could launch regions such as the Lake Chad Basin into a violent water war. Lake Chad is used by four countries as a water source, and has shrunk by 90% in the past 50 years due to mismanagement and climate change. It is time for the United States to do what it does best: lead.

Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.

According to (" UN-Water”) 783 million people do not have access to clean drinking water. The majority of people living in America have plenty of access to clean drinking water and often take that opportunity for granted . The lack of water in undeveloped countries can have a major effect on the economy. Countries that Have clean drinking water means being able to shower, cook, drink, water that can also be used for agriculture. Undeveloped countries with unclean water do not have these benefits

Lack of water and conflict with water rights have instigated wars and political tension especially in the Middle East and Africa, as well as promoting unlikely cooperation to ensure its availability. Also, natural water bodies like lakes mark international

The author, Maude Barlow, begins her article by stating that there is a problem concerning the world’s water and how it can affect the people’s way of living. She includes three possible outcomes that could result from how people are mistreating the water supply. Sources of freshwater are becoming scarcer as people keep polluting and depleting them. As the lack of clean freshwater decreases, the amount of children dying increases, more so than war and diseases altogether which occurs more frequently with those that are of low socioeconomic status. Those that belong to companies dealing with water exchange are taking advantage of the shortages by selling them to regular people at expensive rates; this could ultimately lead to the market’s dictating

The documentary F.L.O.W.: For Love of Water focuses on the negative effects of the privatization of water in countries all over the world. Water privatization is a detrimental issue for people of all socio-economic groups. The poor are the most negatively affected by the privatization. By forcing them to pay for water, they are driven to get water from polluted water sources. This leads to disease and death, and in greater numbers than wars and AIDs. By having access to clean water, people and communities are able to thrive. As Peter Gleik so eloquently stated in the first few moments of the documentary, “Without water, we have nothing, we have

The inequality when it comes to water scarcity is unacceptable and it does not meet the criteria for Reasonable Access to Clean water for multiple reasons. It is believed that 780million people lack access to clean water and another 2.5 Billion people lack access to improved sanitation (so they only have enough to drink and nothing else). Reasonable access to clean water should mean that water is offered at the lowest possible price so that more people can afford it but it is often in the poorest countries that the water they need is more expensive and harder to access and it is often due to avoidable causes.

Awela Musleh looks around her house during an interview with NPR News, ashamed of the disarray around her. Musleh is a mother of six, struggling to survive in the Palestinian-occupied West Bank, one of the most politically tumultuous regions of the world. “Look at how dirty my house is,” she tells Daniel Estrin, the host of the interview, “I focus on drinking, not cleaning.” Where she lives, water is a luxury. She relies on a few buckets of water to wash her dishes, shower by hand, and flush the toilet—buckets of water she bought from a truck that brings in water from other areas—trucks that are accused of such terrible price gouging, they’re outlawed in many Palestinian towns. But Musleh has no choice. Her town hasn’t had water for over two weeks.

The human population faces a number of issues barring them from affording a promising outcome for future generations so to help improve global standings those involved must decide which issues to tackle first. By looking into long-term prevention in issues such as: political disturbance, economic disruption, disease, thirst, and starvation other health concerns could be lowered in the process. One focus that is need of assistance is the issue of clean water access in Eastern Mediterranean region. The rural sections of the Eastern Mediterranean water supply is beyond the public sector that begs for improvement. This problem can be solved by first determining four to five countries within the Eastern Mediterranean area that need clean water most desperately and from there find out where to but the new and clean water supply so that it is accessible to the most amount of people. This would be followed up by distribution of water filters for those further away from the newly installed water source costing close to 5 million and most likely requiring the help of volunteers. The added cost of care for the civilians would be another 6 million and on top of that the cost of

One of Iraq’s main topographical features known are the Euphrates River and the Tigris River that flow from the Turkish and Syrian Arab Republic borders in the north to the Gulf in the south. Northeast Iraq consists of mountainous terrain while the country in the west is arid desert. The soil surrounding the two rivers is fertile; but because they lack an effective irrigation system areas around the rivers have flooded and created areas of marshland. (World Travel Guild)

Unclean water in South Sudan causes many types of disease including cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea; however, the lack of infrastructure in South Sudan means there is very little opportunity to receive care for the disease. The lack of infrastructure is also due to lack of access to clean water, as the dry season causes many to leave their community in search of the water necessary for life and irrigation, but while they search for water to survive, they do not stay at home and build education, roads, economies, and medical centers. The searching for water gives rise to more problems involving water, because the sharing of wells causes water conflicts with other tribes and surrounding nations, which leads to poor economic building with no

With the estimate of 1.2 billion people, by 2015 (2004, Goldman) it’s not unfair to assume that the number of people receiving water from European and American firms has risen above that estimate. With the authors statement that water will become as war proving as oil, how long will it be until we see private firms going to war in third world countries for the ability to sell the poorest of the world clean drinkable water? While instances such as this may seem farfetched, we have already seen what the deep pockets of private corporations can do with nations in sates of

Water is the main source of life on the Earth. It is vital for normal existence and functioning of organisms. Earth is sometimes called “water planet.” But, in fact, the number of freshwater is limited. “Only about 2 percent of the planet's water is fresh.” (How much water is there on Earth?) This water is not enough even to meet daily needs of mankind. According to World Health Organization, “a lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality today for one in three people around the world.” (2009) In the Middle East the situation is especially hard. This region is thought to be one of the droughtiest places in the world, most of it’s territory is deserted. Freshwater accounts to 1 percent of the world’s supplies, while the population comes