The Global Water Shortage

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One in three people on each continent is experiencing water shortages. This situation is exacerbated as population growth, urbanization and increasing domestic and industrial water needs. There are lots of countries that suffering with water shortage problems like India, Australia, China, Jordan.

India – In India, water shortages, particularly serious simply because the difference between actual food consumption and survival so precarious.

China has serious water shortages due to overuse and pollution of the environment and many people who live in places that do not have a lot of water. It is estimated that every year in China's shortage of water supply 40 billion cubic meters. In other words, every year, China uses 40 billion cubic meters of water five to seven times the number used in Southern California more than its resources can sustain.

Australia is one of the driest continents. The effects of water shortages being felt here. The country feels its worst drought in its history, and will have a negative impact on the food and the economy, except for their personal lives

Approximately 348 million people face serious economic water deficiency. They live in countries where potential water resources are sufficient to meet the reasonable water needs to 2025, but they should undertake massive improvement of water supply projects, at huge cost and probably serious harm to environment, to reach this purpose.

The Middle East is forbidden approximately 5% the population in the world. However, it has only 1% freshwater resources in the world. Jordan – one of the countries suffering from direct water deficiency, where the requirement exceeds natural delivery approximately on 175%, thus doing the country one from the best ten wat...

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...ody has to understand the importance of the water. Understand that water-is inalienable attribute of life, without which it is impossible to exist. If things will happen perfectly, then situation of water shortage will be decrease. Only, considering carefully and estimating force which water can, good health and peace of mind which quarantee.

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