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    Barlow, Maude February 25, 2008 *The* Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water Foreign Policy in Focus, www.fpif.org 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. Amster, Randall March 10, 2009 Water, Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in the

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    American uses about 176 gallons of water in one single day, while in Africa, 660 million people see just one sip as a luxury, states Kristen Lewis in the article entitled “THIRST” for the 2016 Scholastic Scope. Without water, people cannot carry out daily activities and struggle to survive. The water crisis in Africa is an expanding problem in our world that continues to affect millions of people each day; fortunately, this crisis has caught the attention of The Water Project, a nonprofit organization

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    Flint Water Crisis

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    essential to the human body, one of those items being water. Living on a planet that consists of approximately 71 percent water, it only makes sense that each of Earth’s inhabitants have access to water. Unfortunately not everything that makes sense is realistic. Many third world countries have little to no access to water and in America we have experienced several issues of water contamination. The most recent and tragic incident involving water contamination occurred in Flint, Michigan. Due to economic

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    The drought in California isn’t even close to seeing an end, in the article Solutions to California Water Crisis From Half a World Away by Stephen Stock, Michael Bott, Jeremy Carroll and Felipe Escamilla, it reports that California needs to brace itself for multiple decades more of this monumental drought and that it going to take trillions of gallons of water to catch up to the state current deficit. They summarized the severity of this drought by saying that it could rain every day in San Francisco

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    the water crisis in the region of Africa and how water can cause many other problems such as inadequate sanitation, poverty and diseases for the population. People living in third world countries are suffering from the water crisis that has become a major problem for the United Nations, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Millennium Development Goals and many of the other organizations. For some of these organizations have been successful in providing a bit more water through

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    Bottled Water Crisis

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    Additionally, The destruction from the bottle water industry does not only play with our wallets. But it also creates issues with the world that we reside in. Our environment is being destroyed by the second right before our eyes. Our lakes, beaches, rivers and every other water system there is, is slowly ruining due to the plastic bottled waters we are purchasing and throwing threw out carelessly without thinking or caring about the consequences we are having to deal with across the world. There

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    investigations of factors affecting Kenya, water scarcity appears as one of its key problems that require addressing. This is due to the fact that water provides the basis for sustainability and development, both which have halted from its lacking. As a result, the Kenyan population finds itself battling with this reality and attempting to manage day to day life with the scarce existence of this resource. Despite government and international attempts to mitigate the crisis, the Kenyan population continues

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    Flint Water Crisis

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    Clean drinking water is a necessity in everybody’s life. Many cities take for granted their seemingly infinite amount of water available to them but for Flint, Michigan residents, there is no such luxury. Many people in that area have been sickened or even killed with the water that is available to them. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan should resign due to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan because his negligence may have long and short term effects on the health of the city’s residents. There

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    Mexico Water Crisis

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    Mexico’s water supply has been dwindling since the 1980s, when Mexico’s population more than doubled. The current problem is that the water provided to the Mexican public is not clean, as 70% of Mexico’s water bodies are contaminated. The general population is forced to try and make do with the water that they are provided with or find a private supplier who might supply cleaner water at a much higher price. The government has gone on to propose that water distribution be moved to the private sector

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    The Flint Water Crisis

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    The water crisis in Flint has caused mixed effects on the local businesses. There is one factor that every business has in common and that is the use of water in one way, shape or form. Because of the lead contaminated water in Flint, the city officials have given out water filters; however, for some businesses this will not do. In a story from INC.com we see the story of a man beginning his new business in Flint. The business in question is a coffee shop. Luke Leffel the owner of Wild Root Coffee

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