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The water crisis looms large over our planet

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It is a tragic scenario we see playing out on our only home. With new predictions from scientists that Arctic glaciers may be gone within 23 years and glaciers around the world melting three times faster than worse case scenatios, what are we going to do to preserve the dwindling fresh water resources we are certain to see strained in the next fifteen to twenty years even more than they are now?

One-third of the world’s population is now in need of potable water which was a scenario not predicted to happen until around 2025 and which is now predicted to get worse unless things change drastically. We are nearly twenty years ahead of predictions on this and yet we are woefully unprepared for the consequences. There is no other way to state this: unless we work to solve this global water crisis now, many of the poor and malnourished in our world where this crisis is most dire will die.

A report by the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, put out last year painted a bleak picture of global access to fresh water and warned us that this Earth cannot continue by doing business as usual. The time for doing business as usual is over. However, are we listening?

We are reaching the breaking point in many areas of our world due to waste, pollution, mismanagement, lack of water infrastructure, inadequate water infrastructure, and privitization. However, the most damning reason for this is our own lack of will and a basic misunderstanding by people (especially in America) that water is an infinite resource that we can continue to use without any concern for tomorrow. It isn't. And we can't.

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JanforGore

9 responses // The water crisis looms large over our planet

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    Thanks JanforGore.

    Do you have this link?

    http://www.wateraid.org/usa/get_involved/6560.asp?dm_i=258039718

    TouchArt
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    Yes and already signed. Thank you!

    JanforGore
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    Great.

    TouchArt
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    It was on one of my numerous trips to Kenya that I first saw the effect of severe drought in the Rift Valley, in 1984-1985 - skeletons and dried-out cadavers of cattle and animals littering the dry ground as far as the eye could see, dreadfully skinny living animals, and hereto prosperous villagers experiencing utmost poverty due to the loss of most of their cattle. Water was very scarce in the villages and settlement, only brackish water from wells was available, not very good for drinking. That is when I learnt two basic things - respect for water (I now use a minimum of water in my daily life and never waste any), and how to wash myself from head to foot (not the hair, though) with soap and water using no more water than is contained in a coca-cola glass, and be fresh and clean as a result.

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    Vierotchka
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    Thanks to JanforGore for yet another way we're all ganna die.

    ivxx
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    Only if we sit on our butts and do nothing but criticize those with the conviction and passion to bring the facts forward to call for change. You can't address the problem if you don't have the truth. it looms large but it is not impossible to fix, as was also outlined in what I wrote at the link. Thanks.

    JanforGore
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    Thanks, Jan, for reporting on this very important issue - our dwindling water resources.

    phoenix_fire999
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    Thanks, and thanks to Current and its members for giving this the attention it deserves.

    JanforGore

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