The Resource Water Of Water

Around the world our water supply is depleting. Our water is becoming contaminated making it harmful for both mammals and aquatic life. Today over one billion people go without adequate water supply and every fifteen seconds a child dies of waterborne illness. Sources of water that once supplied water to millions can no longer meet the supply and demand of the water need. Scientist predict that the amount of useful water will keep depleting greatly in the years to come. In the next couple of pages it will talk about both the geological and human reasons as to why are water supply is depleting.

The earth is like a living organism; it thrives full of life with a fragile balance. This balance has been thrown off by many different things. Water seems to be one of the biggest problems with this offset balance. Water is a magic liquid keeping all of life thriving. Humans drink and use water, plants use water, water is used in everyday life, and it’s slowly being taken away. In the future, there will be no water left to sustain life on earth.

Water is the most precious resource to mankind. With every living substance needing water from humans, animals, and plants it is the one thing no living creature can survive without. The thought of losing or having restricted access to water is a very frightening one. Water shortages not only pose an epic threat for the obvious reason, that water is needed, to drink, but also to the lives around us. With little or no water people would have to make hard decisions such as, letting an animal dehydrate so they can have enough water for their families to survive or who they should ration the water to and how much to ration to save as many people as possible. California has been experiencing a very severe drought that has cost California millions of dollars in agriculture and manufacturing due to low water. Though their drought is not apocalyptic yet, but it could worsen and become an apocalypse that we should fear. The changes that can come from such a disaster would change the lives of everyone in society. The ways water shortages could come about is multiple ways such as, drought, poor management of water, or political issues. Water corruption is a threat to society which needs to be dealt with efficiently and immediately.

The Cree Indian prophecy stated that, Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money. Water is something in such abundance that is available to us at the turning of a faucet, so much that we tend to take it for granted and forget its global impact. We need to stand together and protect clean potable water when our watershed is being threatened. Water is our most precious resource, without it, life itself would seem to exist.

Water is considered as an essential for human existence. We all can survive without food for some day but no one can live without water at least two days. Human body consists of 70% percent of water and our globe is covered by 69.9% percent of water. But unfortunately the useable fresh water is just 2.5% out of it. Water is a social good, water is an economic good, water has ecological value and water has religious, moral and cultural value.

(“Water security”, 2010) Moreover, the amount of water needs for food production is the problem. People desire more and more water for even more agriculture. Yet the most major contributor to water scarcity and to the ecosystem is the way people use water (Molden, De Fraiture, & Rijisberman, 2007). In addition, the quantity, availability, and price of key food product inputs can be directly impacted upon by water scarcity having a negative affect on animal and crop yields. The price of food commodities is particularly vulnerable and defenseless to the shocks of unexpected extreme weather incidents, while animals yields are highly at risk from raised water temperatures especially aquaculture and access to clean water sources (Krechowicz, Venugopal, Sauer, Somani, & Pandey, 2010). Within the next ten to twenty years, the water crisis seems likely to trigger significant shortfalls in cereal production. As a result, an enormous global food crisis will occur (Quarterly, 2010).

Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of water on the planet. While the percentage of water in the world is nearly 70%, only 2.5% is consumable. Even further, only <1% is easily accessible to basic human needs. According to National Geographic, “by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.” With this current trend, water will become more immersed in environmental, economic, political, and social changes. Many of these in later years shall need to be addressed as tension rises:

There are various issues associated with water in South-Western United States and specifically California that aiming to one big issue is really restrictive. For this paper water structures and infrastructure were selected as a focus point, however it must be stated that it there’s interconnection among other issues such as environment, politics, history and more. Studying the past it is easy to see how water availability made population explode in an area such as Southern California, where savvy marketing and great politics made it happen. Particularly, for Los Angeles Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert does a great job at understanding and identifying the politics and key figures in getting water to Los Angeles for the purposes of public narrative. Great hydrologic structure were created using both man power and water politics. There a connections between water, politics, environment, and geography when analyzing what the biggest problems involving water management and resources. We must think of water as both a socio-political issue and a natural resource, whose fate is molded by the understanding of its connectivity to itself, the environment, man-made structures, geography, and society. The classes taken in this program have taught us ideals that in order to become a great water resources manager, one must master the political and scientific knowledge to make decisions that are prosperous for society and the environment. Furthermore, one must know the United States’

Water is the building block for everything else in the world today. Without water, almost nothing is possible. Arguably the most important aspect of water is that it enables humans and all other walks of life to survive. But with this comes the ever-growing problem, how will the

One of earth’s most usable water resource is ground water. On earth the total amount of water that is present is estimated around 326 million cubic miles. Out of this amount of water present 97% is sea water, while the other 2% is found frozen in ice caps and glaciers. This remaining 1% is found in ground water. Surface water, water found in the atmosphere, and water found in unsaturated soils and rocks only account for about one-fifth of the total amount found in the world water supply that is any given moment. Not counting ice, ground water accounts for 97% of the water that is not in the ocean.

It is hard to imagine that the planet earth could possibly be experiencing an epic crisis of water deficiency. The earth is made up of 75 percent water. Why, if water is in such abundance, is it such a precious commodity? Some countries have begun to ration water, while others act as if there is an endless supply. The numbers are very deceiving, simply because the water that is in such short supply is fresh water, which is crucial for all aspects of life. According to Wright and Boorse (2005) "About 97.5% of all water is the saltwater of the oceans and seas. The remaining 2.5 percent is freshwater-water with salt content of less than 0.1 percent. This is the water on which most terrestrial biota, ecosystems, and humans depend. Of the 2.5 percent, though, two-thirds is bound up in the polar ice caps and glaciers. Thus, only 0.77 percent of all water is found in lakes, wetlands, rivers, groundwater, biota, soil, and the atmosphere. On a global level the largest amount of water is used for irrigation, nearly 70 percent, while industry uses 20 percent and actual human use is 10 percent.” (page 240) Healthy aquatic ecosystems are essential providers of food and several other important bi-products necessary for life. The world currently faces a water crisis, both of amount and purity, caused by a surge in world population, food production practices, living standards, and industrialization. Improvements in wastewater management have had a vital impact on the

Many of these issues are being thought through by governments and NGOs around the world. Although it seems like Earth’s water is disappearing, we just have not been taking care of this life-giving renewable resource.

Water is one of the world’s most precious resources, but only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. Even more astonishing only one percent is easily accessible due to the amounts frozen in glaciers (Schnoor). Water sustainability “could be defined as supplying or being supplied with water for life or, perhaps more precisely, as the continual supply of clean water for human uses and for other living things” (Schnoor). In third world countries such as India and China there has always been a struggle for the allocation of water. Who is entitled to the water, who needs it more, and where will the water come from? Asia obtains agricultural self-sufficiency by emptying rivers into irrigation canals, while on the other hand India’s farmlands are watered by plundering the countries underground water. Neither, are sufficient solutions that allow for the immortality of water for future generations to come. This excessive tapping into groundwater is wringing third world countries dry. As farmers take digging wells into their own hands there is no regulation on how deep or how many wells can be dug. On the other hand, in first world countries there is excess water in areas that is not being allocated to those in need. For a country to achieve water sustainability, it requires an entire country to cooperate. The government needs to provide knowledge to both urban and rural areas about the state of emergency their groundwater levels are in and how they can help alongside to prevent furthering the

Around the world water is an essential resources for daily life but over 663 million people do not have access to safe drinking water. For many water is seen as a given right, but what happens when the convenience of water is taken away? Worldwide countries and agencies are coming together to prepare for this devastating event. The United States, in particular Florida, has prepared multiple water supply plans and structures due to the unsustainable water withdrawal from the Floridian Aquifer and the impact of sea-level rise. In 2015, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection began preparing for an increase in population, resulting in 24.1 million residence by 2030, whom will demand a total of 7.4 billion gallons of fresh water per day (source 2015).

The major resource in the world “Water” for most people meaning life which created all living things that exist; has come to a point of scarcity. Imagine living in world where the most needed resource “water” was unavailable. For some, around the world people have been experiencing it. Countries like China and India have been suffering of bad and poor quality water. But it did not happen until the last years that people began experiencing it. This issue has made some to call for the need of better restrictions to maintain water by having governments to have better water conservation policies. Critics of this say, that water conservation is everyone 's responsibility and that it should be up to the person to lower the use of consumption. Water has been affected by the individual, therefore the most of people will argue that the causes of this are misuse of water, environmental chaos, and overpopulation which will lead to the destruction.