. Introduction Water is the major resource of life on the earth; as a consequence, sustainable growth of civilization is heavily influenced by availability of water resources with the required quality. In modern civilization, inadequate assess to clean water and sanitation are two most pervasive problem leading to water scarcity, even in the regions currently considered as water rich[1-3]. Estimated 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; millions of people die annually- 3900 children
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4.10 Climate change impacts on water quality In developing countries, the biological quality of water is poor due to the lack of sanitation and proper treatment methods and poor health conditions (WHO, 2004). Vulnerabilities are related to a lack of relevant information. The Freshwater chapter in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) was unable to consider the impacts of climate change on water quality in great detail. Estimated changes in air temperature and rainfall could
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1.1. Background and motivation Water and drinking water in particular cannot be dispensed with, so must be clean, free of pollution and available all the time to preserve life{1}. However, an estimated 1.2 billion people around the world lack access to safe water and close to 2.5 billion are not provided with adequate sanitation {2}. Consequently, more than half the population of the world is exposed to different types of water borne and water related diseases. Poor sanitation causing major
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In the documentary “Tapped” it expressed all of the things about botting water that not a lot of people pay attention too.There are many industries that produce and sell bottled water. The major one is Nestle. Nestle is world’s leading nutrition, health, and wellness company. The way that they profit most of their earning isn't quite constitutional in so many words. Only 1% of the earth’s water is drinkable. So that leaves much water left for the entire world to split and to filter or clean so it
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Having clean water is never a problem in countries like the United States, but for countries like Sierra Leone it is a real everyday problem. Sierra Leone is not the only country that is affected by the lack of clean water sources in their countries. “Countries in which less than 50% of the population uses improved drinking water sources are all located in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania,” (6). Some may say that this is not their problem but, in reality there are real people suffering from diseases
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The scholarly article, The effects of water shortages on health and human development by Faissal Tarrass(MD, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis),and Meryem Benjelloun (MD), discusses the hardships of water shortages and the toll it takes on the human health. The article states more people are affected from the consequences of water deprivation than those affected from “terrorism, war and mass destruction combined”. As of 2012, over 1.1 billion people lack water access and 2.6 billion lack accesses
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It is said that Senate Democrats proposed a letter to require Governor Brown to take further important action on the crisis (“Drought could spell”). This shows that the Democrats are very concerned about the drought so that they accelerate the operation of solving the drought and it has been successful because Governor Brown passed the Emergency drought bill in order to
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Farmers across the nation, primarily along the west coast, are dealing with some form of financial decline due to soil erosion, drought, and costs to income ratios. The cultivation of hemp will restore our economy and environment. In the article titled “The Forgotten History of Hemp,” author Jack Herer claims that: Farming only six percent of continental US acreage with hemp could end America’s dependence on fossil fuels. Capable of producing ten tons of biomass per acre in four months without
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and so much more. Water is impossible to live without, no hesitation about the topic. If a certain town didn’t have water, it would be impossible to live in that certain town. Recently in Flint, Michigan, a lead water crisis has broke out. According to sources, this water crisis occurred in April 2014. Ever since a change in sources treated from Lake Huron water to the Flint River, the city’s drinking water built up several problems such as lead contamination. This caused a serious health danger
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What would you do if you had 2.2 billion dollars? California has been in a drought for about four years. This means there are citizens and farmers who have less water than they are used to or they do not have water at all. So they are not able to live the life they are used to living. To prevent this, the state should have rules to save the water they do have. California suffered from the drought economically recently. In Source two it is informed that the “drought is expected to cost the states
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