Water Shortage In America

Second, enhancement in the government’s focus on granting constant and improved access of water to Indigenous peoples will improve the population’s health. most aboriginal communities in Canada are located far from the cities and close to the North, which is the main cause for high prices due to transportation difficulties such as long distances and snowy roads. Because of this, water bottles in those communities have giant prices “14.28$ for a case of 12 500 ml water bottles at the grocery store” (Harper 95). Considering the poverty of the population in those places, the price becomes unaffordable for most of the people, which forces them to find substitutes. One of the alternatives consist of consuming pop soda, which ironically has lower

The State of Colorado has suffered from a water shortage in recent years; a difficult situation which is easily visible when viewing the quickly shortening length of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, for example, is roughly 130 feet lower than it once was, marked by the stained rock which towers above the current water level. “The river has become a perfect symbol of what happens when we ask too much of a limited resource: it disappears. In fact, the Colorado no longer regularly reaches the sea” (Zielinski, 2010). Legislation was implemented early on to address this issue, though the results were (perhaps not surprisingly) rather unanticipated, regarding

Another reason for increasing its agricultural sector is to end Algeria’s dependence on imports. In 1962, when Algeria gained its independence from France, the economy was primarily based on agriculture. In the last 40 years, other industries have eclipsed the importance of farming; the main industry being crude oil (Worldmark Encyclopedia). Algeria currently imports almost half of the food it consumes, and it is the world’s fifth largest importer of wheat (Reuters). However, steps have been recently made to reverse this trend. In August of this year, the ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development launched a device to support the promotion of water-saving irrigation systems (ProQuest Newsstand/Algeria Press Service). Algeria’s agricultural production growth rate also exceeded 10% in the 2010-2011 season (Embassy of Algeria). Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Rachid Benaissa also stressed the importance of boosting agriculture. “We should make sure agriculture techniques and skills are applied more widely to achieve profitability and to make the sector’s modernization everyone’s concern” (ProQuest Newsstand/Algeria Press Service). Changes have also been emerging in fishing. Due to its location on

How would you feel if you had a water shortage? That would mean shorter shower, less crops, and a big problem.In Colorado, the Colorado River is drying up. It is getting so populated in that area that they are running out of water. I feel bad for the farmers. What about their crops?

Water is a privilege. Living in the 21first century America, many individuals including myself have forgotten this. Many families all over the world are forced to walk miles for water just to find that it isn't even clean. Water shortage is a problem all over the world, but especially in poor countries like Africa. Because individuals all over the world have to get their water, my class did a water walk to understand their pains, but I would change it by making it longer, carrying more water, and having harsher conditions.

For those causes and effects, the California officials have come up several solutions for solving this problem. The first solution is education. The residents in California do not have enough concept of saving water, so they use a lot of water to water their lawns and plants, wash their clothes daily although they have just worn a t-shirt with jean for two hours, and keep water flowing when they are brushing their teeth. Through education, people will notice the problem of water shortage in their home country, and understand the correct way to save water. The second solution is adding the cost of using an amount of water, and we will set a water usage average line for the residents. It means that you will be cost extra money when the amount

The aridity maps was prepared by using De Martonne’s Aridity Index, Thornthwaite’s Precipitation Effectiveness Index, Thornthwaite’s Moisture Index, UNESCO Aridity Index and Erinc Aridity Index. These indices showed that most of the southern parts of the country lie between arid to hyper arid where as northern parts lie between semi arid to very humid zone (Fig-3). Analysis shows the climate of northern parts is more variable as compare to southern parts. The reason in the variability of the climate in the northern parts is that this region received rainfall in summer due to monsoon systems (July to September) and in winter due to western disturbances (December to March). Southern parts of the country receive most

Although it is the twenty fourth largest country in the world, it is only slightly less than twice the size of Texas (1,240,192 sq km). In that small area, it has several useful natural resources such as “gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, and hydropower” that the government can use to enhance their economic standing and benefit their people. (Central Intelligence Agency). Its terrain is best described as “mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand” with “savanna in south,’ and “rugged hills in the northeast”. Unfortunately, Mali faces several natural threats such as “hot, dust-laden Harmattan haze, recurring droughts, and occasional Niger River flooding” (Central Intelligence Agency). Another natural disadvantage Mali has, is that it is landlocked. This means that Mali does not have easy access to water via coastline or maritime claims.

The First zone, is the desert areas which are located in the west and southwest of the Euphrates river. It’s part of the Syrian desert, which also covers parts of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The region, thinly dispersed by pastoral nomads has a wide stony plain with rare sandy stretches. There is a very stretched out form of wadis from the border to the Euphrates. Some of the valleys are up to 400 km long, and during the winter rains, they carry brief but heavy floods.

Water is a necessity for all life forms. However we exist in a world where clean water is guaranteed to every person. It seems something so important would be supplied by the government for its people. There's a lot of places that can't guarantee its own people the things needed to survive. Living in the United states people don't think this is a prominent problem that exists. However recently in Flint Michigan they had a water crisis that affected a massive amount of people who had thought their water was perfectly fine. California's water shortage is another example of people even in the ‘first world’ having problems with obtaining drinking water. These hardships are nowhere in comparison to the hardships faced in other countries. The problem's root seems to be caused by the people who need it most, humans.

Already existing tap water in Egypt is known for its high chlorine content water that is not fit for drinking. The government ought to either provide new taps with fresh water or ensure that the already existing taps run only fresh water or water that is free from impurities and therefore fit for human consumption. The tap water however has to be clean water that is fit for not only domestic use, but also human consumption (Miller, 2009).As opposed to previous times when tap water in Egypt was highly chlorinated; a purification system ought to be used in ensuring that tap water is fresh. Taps should thus be situated in both rural and urban areas. This would not be so difficult since only 5 percent of the land is inhabited. The cost of putting in place such fresh water taps would be affordable to the government, considering the fact that over 55.5 billion is spent to deal with water issues.

During fracturing when pressurized water is used to crack the formation containing the unconventional oil and gas a lot of water is consumed in breaking that formation and getting the access to the hidden oil and gas resources. The clean water consumption in the process of fracturing is very much which can result in shortage of clean and drinking water. The shortage of clean and drinking water can result in water drought. All the living creatures need water for their survival. The shortage or abundance of clean and drinking water can become a serious problem if a lot of water is used in fracturing. The extraction of energy resource at the loss or wastage of another very important resource is not a very smart solution.

Study area is geographically located between 32° 32´ 38 ' ' - 33° 21´ 09 ' ' E and 30° 51´ 38 ' ' - 31° 14´ 39 ' ' N, in the northwestern of Egypt. The northern Sinai coast is located within the rainy belt of Egypt; while the aridity increases generally to the south (El-Ghazawi, 1989). Rainfall is scarce and varies from place to place and increases in the northeastern direction, ranging from about 30 mm/year in the southwest at Ismailia to about 300 mm/year in the northeast at Rafah. The annual rainfall in northwest Sinai varies between 36 to 54.8 mm/year and the total quantity of rainfall generally increases northward (El-Sheikh, 2008). The area is considered one of the horizontal expansions in the Sinai Peninsula which aims at establishing a link between Nile Delta and North Sinai by El Salam Canal. The ongoing project aims at reclamation of 400.000 feddans (Hafez, 2005 and Mohamed, 2013). Groundwater is the one available source of water in the study area beside support of El-Salam canal, so the assessment of agricultural potentiality in the Northern Sinai area requires water resources evaluation.

Kuwait offers its citizens free education, including free food, clothing, books, stationery, and transportation, from kindergarten through the fourth year of college, so it is reasonable that literacy rate of total population is 96.3% (Central Intelligence Agency.) This phenomenon helps Kuwait save water, since people in the country having high education have the idea that water is precious for them and save water as possible as they can avoiding to waste. Furthermore, this policy enhances the chance of cultivating high-tech talents who can research and develop new techniques to relieve or solve water shortage. The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, founded in 1967 at Safat, promotes and conducts scientific research in the fields of food resources, water resources, oil sector support, and environmental studies (Kuwait – Science and technology).

Ali (2010) comments that “the consumption level of water exceeds the available sources” (91) while Boberg (2005) asserts that “water is one of the resources that is scarce” (112) made an analysis of the water crisis in UAE based on the water stress in the region. Ali and Boberg clarified water stress as the imbalance that exists between the amount of water needed and the available useful water. They utilized the water stress index for the rating of water crisis. Nevertheless, they failed to take into consideration various factors like the potential sources of water such as desalinization. This concept concurs with the analysis of Mehmet (2000) that portrays “the severity of water crisis is attributed to industrialization which consumes and pollutes available water” (p.76) but never addresses the role of nature and people regarding water stress.