Water- Problems

Using named examples, assess the potential for water supply to become a source of conflict. (15)

The goal of this paper is intended to provide the legal, political, social, economic, ecological dimensions of water resource policy

The Construction of Water as a Political Entity Mallorie Iozzo POLI 100 A Dr. David Foley December 8th, 2017 For humans, drinking water is a biological necessity. As with any resource, however, access to water is often limited. This is based on a combination of circumstances constructing water as an economically-based, commodified resource. The control, regulation, and treatment of water by political bodies determines who has access to the resource. In the United States, this results in the interaction of Municipal, State, and Federal branches of government. The interaction of these bodies as related to the governance of water depends upon the prioritization of drinking water for the people. Ultimately, the difference

Update Image Essential Question: In what ways do humans actions and interactions affect the health of Puget Sound? Do you know that our action do really affect Our Puget sound because our yard waste releases chemicals like oils,grease,metals and the soap we us to wash our hands and bacteria and that bacteria

We all love water, but don’t know much about it. What I mean is that a lot of us don’t even know where our water comes from. That answer varies; for example, the city of Camarillo California gets its’ water in Camrosa Water District. It’s official website, “Camrosa Water District

According to most resources by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population will run low on drinking water. The World Bank Group pushes privatization as a solution to the water issue. World Bank is the largest funder of water management in the world, with loans and financing fed through the group’s International

Water can be considered the most important nonrenewable resource in the world. Every human across the world needs it in order to live and it carries a lot of value. The world is now at a stage where the scarcity of water is making people nervous because groundwater is at an all-time low. Several wars over the years have arisen in the Middle East for water. Desert is the many land condition that rules over the Middle East which means drier air, sand, and minimum water available. This is not a light issue since blood is being spilled over the control of certain rivers and dams within the area. Tension over control for water sources will only worsen as fresh water availability decreases.

Water scarcity is a consequence of imbalances between resource Economic relations and resource management, 2. Ideology and culture including the way people think about the environment and water rights, 3.political agents like the state, transnational actors and organizations involved in water disputes and trade 4.the transnational social movements which endorse and resist water privatization, and 5.the power relations which engender unequal access to safe water (Bywater, 2008).

 Saving and consumption of water  Improving drinking water supply  Increasing In developing countries, passing along technical information for maintaining pumps and sanitizing the local water supply will help not only relieve the burden of responsibility, but allow them to maintain a constant supply. Factories and cleaning facilities establish jobs and financial stability when in the right hands. Knowledge of finances and business will help establish revenue and economic stimulation, thus allowing for better technology for survival in the future. Technological innovations in developed and developing countries will allow war-ing states to have more access to water not previously known before. Over 260 river basins are shared by two or more countries. These areas not only cause a conflict of interest, but can affect the source as well. War pollution and use of water in machine production can cause a water source to become polluted and reduce its size greatly. Various solutions to these problems exist and implementing them is up to the people who will be affected by it. Each will be throughly discussed in this paper and find hopefully find an affordable solution that will benefit us generously now and for future generations to come.

Several strategies are being embraced to help in reducing the amount of water used and being wasted in the long run. This is also to help with

1. Introduction Open Educational Resource are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others (William & Foundation, 2015). According to Hurt (2013) they include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. Water is essential to sustain life and maintain ecological systems necessary for human survival; it plays important roles in ecosystem support, economic development, cultural values and community well-being (Botkin & Keller, 2011). The management of water is referred to as an activity that involves planning, developing, distributing as well as optimum use of water resources under defined water policies and regulations as well as the authorization of water uses that may have or potentially have, an

Currently California has a terrible water problem, which is causing many people to cease watering in excess all across the state. The reason California has water problems is that we are emptying our underground aquifers during a drought that has been going on and many people are still wasting water

Within the United States, there are numerous concerns regarding water. The Colorado River, one of the most powerful in the U.S., is starting to dry up due to homeowners who are illegally pumping its contents. Lake Mead in Arizona, currently supplying water to over 22 million people, might become obsolete by 2021. We haven’t had to deal with scarcity, like in places such as Africa, but it seems that we are causing problems that are difficult to undo through our sheer wastefulness.

A disturbing article by Maude Barlow, which pertains to the building tension between countries, regions, etc. in,regards to shared water sources. She highlights the possibilities of issues arising from disagreements in the use and treatment of water sources.

According to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 2020 we will be facing a major water crisis worldwide. Water is a renewable, but limited resource. It can be recycled but not replaced. Consumption of global water has increased drastically since 1990, and many countries are reaching their limit of water supply ("The Global Water Situation"). World Bank reports that at least 80 countries now have a water shortage. It’s expected to get worse due to two significant problems that will effect our global water stability, population growth and groundwater depletion. Over the last century our population has grown from 1.7 billion to 6.6 billion. It is expected to increase by 45% in the next 30 years. Groundwater is a water reserve and is a nonrenewable source. With this huge spike in population and economic development we have had to rely on groundwater to support this growth. Unfortunately it is being consumed at an unsustainable rate (qtd. in Water Resources Research Center). Conserving our water will not only protect what water we have left, but it will prevent other major problems from occurring. With water shortage comes an agriculture crisis, power outages, environmental crisis, and a worldwide spread of disease. Water conservation is important to secure a long lasting future. Society needs to realize our water on earth is not an everlasting resource, and we each need to take action to conserve what we have. By doing something we can