One of the more important repeated themes expressed throughout the class is sustainability. It may not appear be a consistent occurrence in the beginning of the course, however it starts to become noticeable after the first few modules. The concept of sustainability is of the highest importance; when it comes to dealing with societies, the world, and its people. Humanity does its best to maintain sustainability through means of agriculture, politics, or scientific investments. Sustainability is essentially needed in order to promote good health and secure the adequate resources needed to survive, to allow for the next generations to be less concerned about problems in the world. In the long-run, the goal is to assure that the future of humans …show more content…
One of the main pressing issues that affects sustainability is the consumption and distribution of natural resources. Approximately 75% of the Earth is surrounded by water, one of the crucial elements for live to exist, and yet there are millions of people all across the planet who do not have access to this necessity. Although not all the water on the planet is safe to consume, technology has advanced enough where scientist have developed new approaches to cleaning contaminated water sources, to provide safe drinking water. Millions of people shower, treat their gardens, and use water for fun activities, however it is important to call attention to the fact that water is becoming scarcer as a resource. According to “The Story of Water”, the significance water plays in human life starts to be appreciated when there is a drought (Masumoto). Whenever there is a shortage of resources, we as a society begin to act on our human emotions by overreacting and bickering because we fear uncertainty. There is this idea that we should view water as something divine, because it is essential to our existence and without it most living beings …show more content…
With any issue in today’s world, there also comes the conflict of many people having different methods and opinions on the best way of completing a task, in this situation the task is minimizing water usage. A majority percentage of water consumption is due in part by agriculture, industry, and daily use in total. Some issues that mankind may foresee include growth in population, change in climate, and aging infrastructure used for irrigation systems and reservoirs. Some precautions to take in order to prevent overconsumption of water resources should include evaluating the efficiency of water usage and then from there ensuring installation of proper water laws. Aside from water, one other natural resource that is imperative to human life and the world is soil. Even though soil may appear to be unimportant, its contributions to the world are immense and lots of people have little/no familiarity with its purpose. Soil plays a critical role for the environment because it affects plant life, humans and animals, and the climate. Furthermore, soil supports in other fashions such as filtering water and the air humans breathe. This is crucial for the well-being of people and the longevity for humans, as they continue to prosper. As
Introduction on Water It covers 70% of our planet, makes up 75% of our body, it is necessary for survival and it is declining at a rapid rate (http://www.sscwd.org). It is water. Unfortunately, clean water is rare, almost 1 billion people in developing countries do not have access to water everyday. “Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles” (The Water Project). Use of earth’s natural resources should be seen as prosperity, although it is taken for granted, every aspect of daily life revolves around the environment, forcing water conservation to be necessary for future on this planet.
What is soil? “Soil is a complex mixture of eroded rock, mineral nutrients, decaying organic matter, water, air, and billions of living organisms, most of them microscopic decomposers.” (Miller and Spoolman, 211). As stated, soil is made when a mixture of items such as eroded rock and mineral nutrients come together. Soil is used in a plethora of ways. Soil is where many of the nutrients plants need to grow comes from, soil purifies water, and even absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to be stored as carbon compounds (Miller and Spoolman, 211). Scientists study soil to develop a better understanding how this crucial factor in human’s survival functions and how to make sure humans don’t waste this precious resource (Miller and Spoolman, 211).
This is because only a small part of the population, particularly in developing countries, have access to water of acceptable quality. It is estimated that in some countries only 20% of the rural population has water of satisfactory quality. Based on these statistics, it is clear the urgent need for awareness about caring for water use. Almost without realizing it, we are seriously jeopardizing this essential resource, not for us but for our children's children and their generations, aware that in other parts o...
Water is essential to the all life on earth, including plants. But with the growth of population, humans are facing more and more water problems: including water pollution and water shortage. It has become the biggest problem in the world to date. Most of the water pollution is caused by the heavy industries,pollution, and grey water discharged by households on a daily basis.
One of the biggest challenges facing the world is availability of fresh water. Only about one third of a percent is of the fresh water available on earth is found in surface and ground water for human consumption. Globally these sources of fresh water have been dwindling away and becoming scarcer every year as water demand grows. This problem is true throughout the world and is especially prevalent in the arid regions of the world such as the Southwest United States. Since I am a student here at the University of Arizona and a resident of the state now, these growing water issues not only affect me but all of the residents of Tucson, Arizona. This makes water sustainably critical to the entire region and me.
Sustainability simply defined to me as balancing act between the development of sustainability is necessary for both planet Earth and humans to survive. This is reinforced in the World Commission on Environment and Development report (1987) that sustainable development must meet the needs of the present without compromising the well-being of future generations”. The Earth Charter Organization widened the idea of sustainability to respect for a culture of peace, universal human rights, nature, and economic justice (What is sustainability?, n.d.).
Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of the 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.
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.
Water availability and drought is a huge global problem, especially in arid and dry regions, that humans have battled for decades. This issue had only been specific to a few locations around the world in Earth’s early stages. However, as human civilization began to grow and water usage slowly overtook the rate at which it could be replenished, the number of droughts per year increased and became more common in more places around the world (Brown, “Regions”). This also made it harder for people to access fresh, clean water. During the 20th and 21st century, scientists had conducted enough research that established water was no longer sustainable because it was being used faster than it could be replenishable (Onda, “Water Facts”).
Soil is the prime and valuable property obtained through nature. It is a major contribution to the life of humans and animals for whom it’s a source of water, energy and food attainment. It is the source of the food for all the people living on Earth, the creatures as well as the vegetation.
The problem of water scarcity has increasingly spread throughout the world as of yet, The UN reports that within the next half- century up to 7 billion people in 60 countries which is more than the whole present population will face water scarcity (Sawin “Water Scarcity could Overwhelm the Next Generation”). As well the demand for freshwater has tripled over the past 50 years, and is continuing to rise as a result of population growth and economic development. 70% of this demand derives from agriculture which shows the influence of water on food supply globally as well not just drinking water (Sawin “Water Scarcity could overwhelm the Next Generation”). But increasing water use is not just a matter of the greater number of people needing it to drink and eat; it also comes from pollution and misuse of water supplies, by either dumping or runoff of bacteria or chemicals into water. This also “causes other pollutions as well such as soil and air pollution, accelerating wetland damage and human caused global warming” (Smith and Thomassey 25). According to UN report, recent estimates suggest that climate change will account for about 20 percent of the increase in global water scarcity in coming decades.
Many people around the world need water. Around 780 million people are unable to get clean water (One Billion Affected). People who do have access to clean water in their homes, have to pay a fee. The people who struggle to live obviously do not have enough money to buy water. People who are unable to have clean water have a good chance of dying either from disease or from dehydration. At least 3.4 million people die a year from water problems such as sanitation (One Billion Affected).
While the earth may be mostly water, only about 2-1/2 percent of it is fresh water. Of that 2.5%, even less is considered to be potable. Potable water is water that is considered to be safe to drink and cook with. While many countries are working to build water treatment plants, the fact is that due to changes in the climate the amount of rain and ice melts from winter have dropped off and lowered the reserve supplies of freshwater to be treated. There are initiatives to educate and regulate the use of water in the world, as well as exploration into the technology of water farming in arid countries
Water is an integral part of not only human beings but all other creatures in the world. We use it every day for different purposes such as domestic, agricultural and industrial. Water has always been a prestigious resource. However, the majority of people do not appraise water’s worth since they do not face water scarcity; whereas, in third world countries it is one of the most serious problems. Nearly 2.4 billion people have a lack of water resources in the world, shows the investigation done by the Pacific Institute, an Oakland, California-based non-profit scientific research group. Moreover, every year this number is growing gradually and more people are suffering (Bloomberg News, 2010). There are certain causes which deteriorate current situation. The most influential reasons are global warming, pollution by human-beings and overpopulation. It is known that India is one of the countries which face water scarcity so this essay will consider the possible ways of solutions of water shortage in India.
What are the basic fact that make us scare from water? And why we are scare from water? Though water is basic amenity of human life, animal and plant. We will find the answer in this paper later but let us see what are the major cause that makes us scare and also find out is it real or constructed? In the race of globalization we have increased our need and wants, policy processes, a combination of socio-political discursive and institutional factors, water scarcity is experienced in terms of real, tangible effects. By the focusing of the water scarcity in different part of Indian city i.e. Gujrat, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad where people who have lack access of clean water due to limited water supply. If we see in history the water scarcity were not there were adequate of amount water for everyone. In the race of development we have lost most of natural water resource. In Delhi more than 600 hundred lake were there due to construction road, building house, mall creating playground etc lake got disappear, with the name of development we did not think that in future water is going to be a problem for us or developmental had did not thought for future they only thought for development. In the other case of river are controlled by multinational company,(MNC) and they made Dam on the river and in one river they built more than 7-8 Dams where is got controlled by MNC once it is got controlled by MNC then