Should We Protect Our Freshwater?

In these modern times we are slowly decreasing our water supply, so that in later years there will be a water supply shortage. In the past centuries, mostly in the last few decades, humans have been using an abundance of water and therefore increasing the risk of water of shortages. Now, humans are using even more water and so we have had to discover ways to reduce our water usage. There are different solutions to this problem including just overall using less water, and using water conserving devices (shower heads, wash machines). Another way to conserve water is to install a greywater system. A greywater system allows the water that you have already used to be used again in different ways. The water can be reused in the house or

There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of

California is in a drought and has been for the last three years. Southern California especially is affected by the drought that is now become a regular occurrence with no end in sight. With decreased rainfall and a steadily growing population, Southern California residents now have to make an effort to conserve the renewable resource that is water. Everyone uses water and humans, like all mammals, requires water for survival. With increased demand and decreased supply, water companies now charge more for water than ever before. Water companies can also use this as a way to educate the customers who habitually overuse water with the goal of persuading them to conserve the limited resources available. Recycled water is a more sustainable alternative, however even after treating and purifying that water, it would be still unsafe to drink, and even if it were, no one in their right mind would want to pay to drink what is a essentially sewer water.

Everyday, billions of people use water all over the world. They use water in drinks and food. They use water for bathing and hygiene. They use water in agriculture and industry. They use water for so many things. However, there are many problems with the usage of water around the world. In his editorial, “Our Water System: What a Waste”, Michael E. Webber explains how America has a water problem, and how that problem can be solved.

Among all of the resources in the world, there is one that we do not often consider to be diminishing. The masses take this resource, water, for granted. When the average person takes a single look at a world map, they see multiple blue oceans covering the Earth. But, although we are surrounded by water, our clean water reserves dwindle rapidly. In her article, “Water Works”, Cynthia Barnett attempts to bring this issue to greater light and offers her own solutions. While I agree with many of Barnett’s points, she fails to look at the arguments of her detractors to the detriment of her already flawed case.

That includes deciding whether to use precious water hauled from the local fire stations for the “bird baths” Mrs Gallegos says everyone now has instead of showers, or flushing the toilet.”(source 2)“It’s been terrible, really tough,” says the 38-year-old fruit packer, to have run out of water during one of the worst droughts in the state’s recorded history.”(source2) i think we should have laws because we need to preserve water so it can last and we need the water for the farmers food and crops. We also need to stay hydrated so we need the water to drink.

The lack of freshwater is something that drastically affects the world every single day. People use water everyday for a multitude of things, whether it's washing their clothes, watering their plants, making soup, swimming in a pool, or even just hydrating themselves after a long run or a fun sport outside in the hot, beating sun. Water is very important to human beings, seeing as 70% of the human body is just water molecules vibrating at a very high frequency. That's why when there are natural disasters that prevent people from having access to that water it is highly damaging to everyone, and to the environment. Recently there has been a drought in California that has disrupted not only the lives of the people who live in California, but

Thesis statement (central idea): Access and availability to fresh water are essential to the survival of the human race. Fresh water is a finite source and once it is gone, we have limited options to replenish it, so we must take action to conserve the fresh water we do have especially at home in the United States.

Earth is filled with vast amounts of water, yet it’s like a cruel joke to people who cannot drink it due to its toxicity to us. Likewise, fresh water is our most precious resource that people depend on every day. Our society is based around the use of large amounts of water in our everyday lives. Charles Fisher, a three time winner of the Gerald Loeb award, a writer for the magazine Fast Company, and the author of The Walmart Effect and The Big Thirst, tells a different story. In the article Will the World Run out of Fresh Water, which explains that people take water for granted and never see its true value like people in the past, published at the Detroit Greenhaven Press in 2012. Because we use vast amounts of water and never see the process in which water is given to people, Fisherman proposes this idea that water is taken for granted until we run out, which is more than true.

Collectively the United States is ranked as the greatest consumers of water worldwide; a startling fact for a country that cannot support its own unrivaled demands (Barlow, 2007). The United States is now crucially dependent on nonrenewable groundwater for a staggering 50% of its daily water usage (Barlow, 2007). In addition to such formidable numbers, citizens of the United States use and waste up 80-100 gallons or 454 liters of water per day (Perlman, 2009). The United States simply doesn’t possess enough fresh water or renewable sources of water to keep up with its gross demands. Nearly 40% of U.S waters are deemed unsafe for recreational activities such as fishing and even swimming

In less than a year, California residents will not have enough water to drink, and their beautiful state will turn into a desert. This problem is not limited to California, the entire world is facing clean water shortage problems. If the human community doesn’t pay attention to this problem, in a few decades the number of people who die due to lack of water or hunger that is caused by water shortage will be over millions a year. Polluting the remaining sources of clean water is also another problem. Some factories and farms are releasing their chemical waste into the close by water sources which causes contamination of the water. Harvesting new sources of water is required in order to increase the remaining sources of clean water, and also preventing water contamination is necessary because the process of removing waste from the water is very expensive. In order to solve the

Do you like going to the bathroom outside? Do you like taking showers? If you answered no on both of those questions then you would probably not want to regulate groundwater. In source 2 there was this girl named Angelica who hasn’t taken a shower in five months.Also in source 2 there are families with nightly dishes.If you don’t have a lot of water how are you going to wash you dishes? Most families don’t have a dishwasher, so they have to wash their dishes by hand.When you wash dishes by hand you tend to use more water than an average dishwasher.So they wouldn’t be able to wash there dishes because they have to use their water on the stuff that was important.If we don’t regulate ground water these things

Contribution: By utilizing Glenton’s conclusions of how much water we take for granted in the states, I can add more support to the establishment of a problem of our use of water supply. I can also research more on the solutions he rejected to further prove why they didn’t work and add on to his research with my point of view.

Water is often a resource taken for granted. Often wasted as if we have an unlimited supply. The hard truth is we don’t. This truth is never realized until it has become an issue. For some reason we tend to procrastinate, waiting until we have the issue to start practicing habits that benefit the environment, but what sense does that make? We often wait until we see the effects of the damage we have done to make a change. This is the American attitude. In China, the horrible smog got so bad that people starting wearing mask just to go outside. Now they are very environmentally savvy in every way possible, in efforts to put a halt in smog production and fix the damage they have done. Some countries have jumped on the bandwagon with these practices in hopes to not fall into the same trap that China did, but unfortunately, we weren’t one of them. Environmentally friendly inventions have been slowly making its way into our society, but we are still a bit behind. Most of the “popular” technologies are geared the creation of energy, but their other important things needed for our survival such as water. A technology that is often overlooked and misunderstood is greywater.

In today’s society, the idea of a limited resource is not a foreign concept. Most people understand that eventually humans will use up many of these resources, such as fossil fuels, and they will cease to exist. However, very rarely does a conversation about limited resources get started over the water. While water itself is not a limited resource, clean drinkable water is becoming scarcer as people continue to use excess water. The documentary “Last Call at the Oasis” highlights how precious water is to survival and just how much miss use of water occurs in the United States alone. Even though the United States has gone down the wrong path with its water consumption methods, it may not be too late to recover. With the proper systems and education in place, the chances of delaying a water crisis increase exponentially.