Water

Water is not being made, or nor is it being used up, but rather we are using more water for many more purposes than before. This creates a problem for people who depend on water for their life, rather than using them for applications and industry, people that need to drink and survive have relatively less water, a crisis that must be answered.

Awareness of water problems is also a crisis. The amount of the world’s population that are oblivious to many of the crises in the world create a blind eye to all the existing problems, not only allowing problems to grow more severe, but also allow corporations to take full advantage without any bothers.

With current trends and methods of water use in agriculture, we cannot support food for the next fifty years.

The average person’s daily diet needs 3000 liters of water converted from liquid to vapour (1 litre per calorie), and about2-5 litres per day for drinking. However, in the future, we will require more water for food, fiber, industrial crops, livestock and fish. The way people consume and how they use water to produce food can all be changed to counteract some water crises.

A canal 10m deep, 100m wide, 7.1mil kilometers long (enough to encircle globe 180 times) is the amount of water needed each year to produce food for 6.5 bil people (today’s population)

Total global freshwater withdrawals per year = 3800 cubic kms, 2700 cubic kms of that (70%) is used for irrigation (agriculture) to produce our food. Althoguh now all the water is “lost”, it goes back to the environment in lower quality than its original state.

0.017% of water available in lakes, inland seas, streams - 2.15% in ice caps and glaciers -fresh

Charles Ye

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