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Water Problem Of Water Shortage

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Water is origin of life. Early life was started from the ocean. It builds up human tissue and keep body function works normally. Along with development of technologies, water also plays an essential role in the progress of civilization. For example, Watt invented steam engine so that we could be introduced into the industrial age, water is used to cool machines, water is a irreplaceable formula in lots of industrial materials, and so on. Thus, It is necessary condition of life existence and economic development. Even though people understand the importance of water resource, the conflict between industrialization and environment is unavoidable. Water crisis have already threatened most countries of the world, and China is one of the 13 …show more content…

In 1998, there was a destructive flood happened in China, and it made 29 provinces suffered under flood disaster. Under this flood, damaged areas reached 52 million acres, inundated areas reached 32 million acres, disaster-affected population was 223 million, and direct economic loss reached 20 billion US dollars. (Gong) Encountering with those heavy data of loss, people in China suppose to reconsider their behaviors on utilizing the Yangtze River, however, the painful lesson did not wake them up so much. After the flood, people kept taking away water and other resources excessively, and did not control their pollution well. Since Yangtze River runs through a whole China, normally some soil, rocks, animal corpse, wastes, and other natural things are include in its self-purification ability but human’s exogenous materials. There are more and more trash and sediments could be found on the surface of the river, but also the bottom if it. “The modern Yangtze River discharges most of its annual sediment load between June and September, and short-term monthly deposition rates near the river mouth during this period are about 4.4 cm.” (Liu) In the article of “Flux and fate of Yangtze River sediment delivered to the East China Sea”, the author introduced information about short-term and long-term period of the erosion of the sediment and the rising

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