Water Scarcity-time is running out

[serbian army]

Water Facts
Global

Restricted Access to Water

• 1.4 billion people live without clean drinking water
  Two-fifths of the world’s population lack access to proper sanitation
  More than one-third of Africa‚ population lacks access to safe drinking water
  More than 130 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean lack access to safe drinking water
  Between 15 and 20 percent of the water used worldwide is not for domestic consumption, but rather for export

Water and Disease

• Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water
  Half of the world‚ hospital beds are occupied by people with an easily preventable waterborne disease
  80 percent of all sickness and disease worldwide is related to contaminated water, according to the World Health Organization
  Diarrhea killed more children in the last decade, nearly 2 million a year in developing countries , than all armed conflicts since the Second World War.
  Dirty water kills more children than war, malaria, HIV/AIDS and traffic accidents combined
  75 percent of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from chronic dehydration because of poor water quality

Water Quality

• 90 percent of wastewater produced in underdeveloped countries is discharged untreated into local waters
  80 of China‚ major rivers are so degraded that they no longer support aquatic life
  90 percent of all groundwater systems under major cities in China are contaminated
  75 percent of India‚ rivers and lakes are so polluted that they should not be used for drinking or bathing
  60 percent of rural Russians drink water from contaminated wells
  20 percent of all surface water in Europe is seriously threatened

Water Scarcity

• One-third of the world‚ population lives in water stressed countries now
  Unless we change our ways, two-thirds of the world‚ population will face water scarcity by 2025
  Compared today, five times as much land is likely to be under ‚extreme” drought by 2025
  The percentage of the Earth‚ land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled between the 1970s and 2005
  Rapid melting will reduce the Tibetan glaciers by 50 percent every decade, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  More than two-thirds of Chinese cities face water shortages
  90 percent of the Europe‚ alpine glaciers are in retreat
  United States

Water Scarcity

• Water managers in 36 states expect water shortages by 2013, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office
  One-third of all U.S. water withdrawals are for export
  California has a 20-year supply of freshwater left
  New Mexico has only a ten-year supply of freshwater left
  Florida‚ rapid use of groundwater has created thousands of sinkholes that devour anything , houses, cars and shopping malls , unfortunate enough to be built on top of them
  The U.S. interior west is probably the driest it has been in 500 years, according to the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Geological Survey
  In 2007, Lake Superior, the world‚ largest freshwater lake, dropped to its lowest levels in 80 years and the water has receded more than 15 meters from the shoreline
  Lake Mead, the vast reservoir of the Colorado River, has a 50 percent chance of running dry by 2021
  

Water Quality

• 40 percent of U.S. rivers and streams are too dangerous for fishing, swimming or drinking
  46 percent of U.S. lakes are too dangerous for fishing, swimming or drinking because of massive toxic runoff from industrial farms, intensive livestock operations and the more than 1 billion pounds of industrial weed killer used through the country each year
  Two-thirds of U.S. estuaries and bays are moderately or severely degraded
  One quarter of U.S. beaches are under advisories or closed due to water pollution
  1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution are carried by the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico every year

We must keep this very important issue in our mind. What we can do as "little people" that would help human kind in near future?

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