Guided Essay: What Is Driving China’s Water-Scarcity Crisis? Introduction
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Imagine if your life suddenly changed, and you struggle to get the littlest things. Background Information on China’s water-scarcity crisis:
China has been trying to collide with countries around them to help this problem.
Thesis and roadmap: There are three main causes of China’s water scarcity crisis:global warming, population, and pollution. Of these, the biggest driver is pollution.
Body Paragraph #1 (Category #1) Baby Thesis: One reason for China’s water shortage is global warming.
Evidence: Provide 2 -2 pieces of evidence that prove this statement. Cite the document.
Global warming causes glaciers to melt causing water to waste. doc
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Evidence: Provide 2 -3 pieces of evidence that prove this statement. Cite the document.
While china is worrying about getting more water, more tourists come in and they too need water.
As the country modernizes there is more water needed for industrial needs.
Argument: Explain your reasoning.
This problem helps explain China’s water shortage because…
China has 4x as much people as the USA.
Even the littlest things including, showers, and flushing toilets take a lot of water.
Body Paragraph #3 (Category #3) Baby Thesis: While the first two reasons are important, the biggest driver of China’s water scarcity crisis is pollution
Evidence: Provide 2 -3 pieces of evidence that prove this statement. Cite the document.
16 percent is used for household uses only.
80% of the water in wells isn't suitable for drinking (video)
The yellow river is lined with power plants which can help cause oil spills. (video)
Argument: Explain your reasoning.
This problem helps explain China’s water shortage because…
Some of the water in China is too polluted to even touch.(video)
Mainly responsible from oil spills and chemical
China economy has been falling for many years. Part of this downfall is lack of clean water. You know this, but know one in this world can’t live without water ,so that means water is very important. Climate change, Industrialization, and Government policy all contribute to the chinese water crisis. Of these, the biggest driver is the government policy. The government in China has a strict policy that does not allow the people to have water because China is not using enough money for their water.
I have included three pieces of evidence to prove my case “In 2030 a projected 300 billion cubic meters of water will be used for industry in China, which is equal to 120,000,000 olympic sized swimming pools.” (Doc C) as you can see I included this piece of evidence because If we could cut down the water used for industry by at least 100 billion meters we could save so much water as seen in the evidence. As my other piece of text evidence I feel explains my cause quite well “China used only about 100 billion cubic meters of water for industry in 1980 and since then it has become 3 times that in the year 2030.” (Doc C) this proves my claim because if it went up that much, just in 50 years, in another 50 years 600 billion meters of water could be used solely for China’s industry. And for my last piece of text evidence “In 2030 almost 30% of water used for industry was for power, such as hydro electric work.” (Doc D) I believe this supports my claim because if we continue using that much water for unnecessary uses then China could have a real problem on their hands. As you can see all these pieces of evidence fairly support my claim.
One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.
Whether we want to believe it or not water pollution is one of the world’s l...
... water price rising and its maintaining on the reasonable level will inevitably lead to the increasing of other products cost, which is unacceptable in China (Hofstedt 2010, 76-77). Consequently, this measure should be adopted consistently, in accordance with the global situation in the world and in China especially.
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Developing our national economy, especially industry, requires a great amount of natural resources, such as land, water, oil, coal, gas and iron. However, the natural resources are limited and decline very quickly when a large population exploits them everyday. Take fresh water as an example, in 1990, 58% of Chinese cities (http://www.cass.net.cn/y_sjr/y_cn_sjr_334.htm) suffered from the insufficiency of water. It not only brings great disadvantages to people's daily life, but also has a passive influence on the economic development. Released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the economic loss caused by the insufficiency of water is 250 billion RMB per year, including 230 billion lost industrial output and 20 billion agricultural losses.
Clean and safe drinking water resources are becoming scarce as the population grows. The world is facing many problems, but the most important thing needed to survive, is water. Water is getting low in many countries, therefore residents are suffering the misfortune of not having the reliable source of clean water. Today many countries are having water shortages meaning rivers, lakes, streams and groundwater are not enough to rely on for supplying water demands. For example, California is facing a drastic water shortage, the natural water resources are not enough to fulfill their water demands.
Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of water on the planet. While the percentage of water in the world is nearly 70%, only 2.5% is consumable. Even further, only <1% is easily accessible to basic human needs. According to National Geographic, “by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.” With this current trend, water will become more immersed in environmental, economic, political, and social changes. Many of these in later years shall need to be addressed as tension rises:
... resources are already being documented. For example, in all corners of the world, there is growing empirical evidence of increased severe weather events, flooding, and diminished ice cover, all of which worsen the problem of water shortages and can be attributed to climate change. Many scientific studies also show increases in the intensity, duration, and extent of droughts, higher atmospheric temperatures, warmer sea surface temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and diminishing glaciers and snowpack. The bottom line is that causes of climate change, such as greenhouse gas emissions, will have to be minimized if people want to do as much as possible to solve the water crisis.
Water is the most priceless resource on our planet. Billions of gallons flow through our rivers and lakes. Millions of gallons are consumed by humans each day. Our world’s surface is seventy percent water. With so much water around us, how can 1.1 billion people still lack access to clean water (Cooper, Water Shortages)? People are already using fifty four percent of all the freshwater available on this planet (Cooper, Water Shortages). We cannot afford to neglect something so essential to our very survival. We must defend our most important natural resource—water.
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One main causes of water scarcity is water mismanagement worldwide. Water mismanagement has become a crisis of governance that will impact heavily ...
Water pollution is also a major thing in the world because almost 60% of it is fishes. It occurs due to several factors; the industrial waste dumped into the rivers and other water body’s cause am imbalance in the water leading to its severe contamination and deaths. And the infamous Global warming is the emission of greenhouse gases particularly CO2 is leading to global warming.
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