The Coming Global Water Crisis

What happens when demand for this essential resource starts exceeding supply in many parts of the world? By Stewart M. Patrick May 9 2012 The recent UN alert that drought in the Sahel threatens 15 million lives is a harbinger of things to come. In the next twenty years, global demand for fresh water will vastly outstrip reliable supply in many parts of the world. Thanks to population growth and agricultural intensification, humanity is drawing more heavily than ever on shared river basins and underground aquifers. Meanwhile, global warming is projected to exacerbate shortages in already water-stressed regions, even as it accelerates the rapid melting of glaciers and snow cover upon which a billion people depend for their ultimate source of water. This sobering message emerges from the first U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment of Global Water Security. The document predicts that by 2030 humanity's "annual global water requirements" will exceed "current sustainable water supplies" by forty percent. Absent major policy interventions, water insecurity will generate widespread social and political instability and could even contribute to state failure in regions important to U.S. national security. (Look here for a webcast from the Woodrow Wilson Center of experts and U.S. government officials discussing the findings.)..... The coming Global Water Crisis is man made and avoidable. The water is not gone, but is wasted on large scale by industry and agriculture. Most of it will end up in the sea or will be polluted with heavy metals. The answer to this salination and pollution is the Watercone on small scale and the Sahara Forest Project on large scale. The Watercone will make the polluted or salinated water fresh and drinkable on family scale. For more information on the life saving Watercone technique and where to order it The Sahara Forest Project makes the desert fertile and ready for agriculture and reforesting.  It desalinates water and is powered using solar energy, but also produces more energy then needed for the project itself. Sahara Forest Project Converts Desert into Oasis We could also save an enormous amount of water by: - stop polluting our environment. - using sustainable forms of energy and production. - fight Global Warming. - invest in peace instead of war and in this way stop producing useless weapons, like nuclear weapons and alike. - stop spraying our garden or field and use Drip irrigation. - Greenhouses in desert area make sense to save as much water as possible. - Eating less meat. The production of vegetable needs much less water then the wasteful production of meat in terms of water and food. - The use of Anti-conception in overpopulated areas. and so on.... Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use The complete article at theatlantic.com For a greener planet website  For a greener planet ( blog - this blog in: Atom - RSS ) More websites by Ak Malten