Essay On Water Pollution

Water Consumption around the Globe

The oil crisis and fossil fuel scare is currently underway; however, there is a bigger threat that has literally everybody at the very least little nervous. The cause for this more dramatic scare is the growing lack of adequate water supply. Only about 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh and potable, the rest is in the oceans and seas in the form of salt water. With the World’s current increasing population, “by 2025, with an ever-greater number of people sharing the earth's finite supplies of water and its per capita use having more than doubled, two-thirds of the world's people will not have enough water for the basics of life” (Barlow, Corpwatch.org). Water consumption is a problem that must not only be addressed in the United States, but everywhere around the Globe as well.

If we find the statistics of the uses of water like the percentage of water usage, and reason behind the usage of water in some countries, we can determine what, how, and when something can be done to lower water usage. Countries differ greatly between each other, whether it be because of continent position and its location, or cultural aspects, in some cases, it might even be because there is no government to distribute water evenly and fairly to its population. Such is the problem in countries in Africa and Central America, with South America following closely behind the water pollution rate and the poor distribution of clean water.
I can personally speak from experience about what I have seen in many countries around the globe including the US. I have lived in three continents and have lived in over 6 countries, and in none of them have I seen water being wasted at such a rate as the US. In the US “Withdrawals in 19...

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...abnormally high water consumption rate to be not in par, but closer to that of the rest of the world. With these countries acting the way they are now, without being conscious that if this continues in 2025, two-thirds of the world will not have water, and by 2050, only a select handful of individuals and households will have water to use, the world’s population and the world itself will implode because of the water crisis. However, if everyone does something small like turn faucets off and only water the garden 2 times a week or as little as they can, by turning lights off when not in use and not taking extra-long showers, then this combined effort of millions of individuals becomes a snowball effect and transforms into an impact which will better our future and the future of our children, simply by still having clean accessible water for them to reach and consume.