Here are some of the signs of an upcoming global water crisis and some links you may be interested in reading.
- It is being projected that by the year 2030, global demand for water will be 40 percent higher than it is today.
- Worldwide demand for fresh water tripled during the last century, and is now doubling every 21 years.
- According to USAID, one-third of the population of the earth will be facing severe or chronic water shortages by the year 2025.
- Of the 60 million people added to the world’s cities every year, the vast majority of them live in impoverished areas that have no sanitation facilities whatsoever.
- It is estimated that 75 percent of the surface water in India is now contaminated by human and agricultural waste.
- If you can believe it, according to a UN study on sanitation, far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet.
- In the developing world, 90 percent of all wastewater is discharged completely untreated into local rivers, streams or lakes.
- Every 8 seconds, somewhere in the world a child dies from drinking dirty water.
- Due to a lack of water, Saudi Arabia has given up on trying to grow wheat and will be 100 percent dependent on wheat imports by the year 2016.
- In northern China, the water table is dropping one meter every single year because of drought and overpumping.
- Incredibly, a new desert the size of Rhode Island is created in China every single year because of drought and overpumping.
- In China, 80 percent of all major rivers have become so horribly polluted that they do not support any aquatic life at all at this point.
- Collectively, the women of South Africa walk the equivalent of the distance to the moon and back 16 times a day just to get water.
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