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Ellie Kaechele
Schmidt
English 9
8 December 2014

Water Crisis Causes

As a person, you could have been born into any kind of family, a number of situations, or
many different countries. One thing that affects you wherever you might live is water because
your body is wired to need it. Whether you have that resource available or not, another persons
lack of water can find its way to you. An example is global climate change, which includes
temperature and precipitation variables to be disrupted. Many of our daily matters could be
affected when they change. Another topic having to do with water availability is population
growth, since its not being distributed. The final factor, not as well known, is the way people
consume and use the fresh water they have. It is overused, but this can be prevented. It would
take an impressive effort to set a transition in place. The number of people who lack the luxury
of water will increase because freshwater supplies are diminishing.
Having been discussed considerably, global climate change or global warming is
ongoing. This could have happened naturally without our interference, but with the emissions
from our modern society polluting the atmosphere, we have mainly caused it. Nonrenewable
resources like oil, natural gas, and coal from automated machines are common influences. These
can be determined suspects because only the troposphere, the layer closest to Earth, is warming,
while the one above it, the stratosphere, is not warming. It does this because of the amount of
heat-trapping gases/greenhouse gases stored. This includes water vapor, carbon dioxide,
methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. The populations actions has triggered a change in our water
resources through the climate change. The exact results are not revealed, but through the

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challenges, there is a possibility to turn the tides. There are many laws and regulations having to
do with minimizing the damage as a whole, but we would need to take more steps of action in
order to pull off an effective alteration. The time we have before circumstances worsen would
have to be focused on an intense effort of improvement. The process to do this would be making
an honest attempt to reduce your carbon footprint and using energy-efficient lifestyles. Climate
change will find a way to reach you because of the way water is used and in demand.
The necessity of water as a resource makes it vital to any community in the world, but
that does not mean it is found as abundant in every region. Through the World Health
Organization and the World Bank, it has been found that two billion people do not have clean
water available to them, and one billion do not have their basic needs fulfilled because of the
lack of water. The world population, which swells 80 million every year, makes water limited, so
if the population keeps growing and more people require water, availability will diminish. The
water problem does not stop there; when there isnt enough water, how do you produce food?
People are left to endure poverty, illness, and diseases related to water hygiene and sanitation.
These struggles used to stay within communities, but is becoming worldwide.
More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygienerelated causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world,
(Water.org).
There are many ways water is used to satisfy everyones needs, such as industrial,
household, civic, and agricultural operations. In the areas that have a booming population density
and an enlarged population growth rate are where you will find more water scarcity because of
the shortage of resources to accommodate everyone. Overall, the growth of the population

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increases the pressure of getting clean water to all water-stressed or water-scarce countries. The
goal is to stop it from growing out of control.
On the other side of situation, in first world countries all around the world, people are
wasting the precious resource they have; some people overuse or misuse it. It is being polluted
by factory waste and being treated carelessly. Americans use twice the global average, but that
can be changed with a simple solution: to conserve what you can. Natural aquifers are being
overpumped, meaning they are getting too much water taken out of them that rain and runoff
cannot refill it in time. This results in levels getting lower without being noticeable until its too
late. The city of Albuquerque in New Mexico went through this and it was almost past due for
their aquifer. They turned it around by making revisions in its water-codes and demonstrated to
homeowners how to conserve energy better.
If more of the world population was interested in following Albuquerques example for
themselves, it would show benefits for them personally, for their locality, and for many First
World Countries. This could have a ripple-effect, just like their present wrongdoings affect in an
ongoing motion. People could find ways to reduce their water use in many parts of their life .
When they realize that many people cannot take a hot shower, get clean tap water, or even use a
toilet, maybe it would pull them into reality. The harsh truth of life is that 780 million people do
not have access to clean water, and more people in the world have a mobile phone than people
who have a toilet. The deaths that come from that add up to 3.4 million every single year, and a
minimum of one child each minute loses their life. There is hope, because we have the power to
do something about this. What we need is the motivation of everyone from the common people
to societal royalty. It is only then we can get on with it, because the water crisis will not wait
forever.

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