The Water Problem2

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The Water Problem

• What can we do
  • Daily life
    • Turn off the faucet
    • Single water multipurpose
    • Water econmizer
    • Use wisely
    • Take about it with family and friends
    • Look out for news and facts on water shortages and crisis areas
    • Awareness
  • Social construction
    • building cross-continent water-transfer aqueducts, new hydroelectric dams, and massive desalination plants.
    • using micro water harvesters that condense water vapor out of the air.
• Effect of water shortages
  • Health
    • There are many water-borne diseases that people die of.
    • Lack of water or quality water causes huge sanitation issues
  • Hunger
    • To grow food and care for animals
    • Crops that need water to grow have lower yields.Farm animals will die and others will not do well without water
  • Education
    • Some have to miss school as a result
  • Poverty
    • It means no economic activities will happen and the people will be in constant poverty
• China's Water Situation
  • Concern
    • Man-made pollution
    • Natural contamination
    • Negative influence
      • over 90% groundwater in cities was polluted
      • 64%cities had seriously contaminated groundwater supplies
      • 20%China's rivers were so badly polluted
  • Hope for the future
    • Advantage
      • Knowledge
      • Capability
    • Solution
      • A sustainable ,long-term solution
• Bright future
  • Breathe fresh air
  • Drink clean water
  • Enjoy beautiful scenery
• Global Water Scarcity
  • Natural Reason
    • Less than 3％ of water on earth is fresh water
    • The bulk of this is trapped in snowfields and glaciers
    • The rest form the seas and oceans and cannot be used in the same way as fresh water
    • Only 0.014％ is surface water
  • Social Reason
    • Humans are not efficient users
    • Industrial pollution
    • Unreasonable use
  • other
    • population expansion
    • urbanization
    • climate change
• Background
  • Water is on track to be the most important and most contentious resource of the 21st century.
  • Distributed unevenly around the world
  • Climate change is expected to intensify droughts and floods while shifting where water will be and when
• Water is important
  • There is no alternative
  • Water is intertwined with every other sector of society
  • Water demands are growing at the same time supplies are fluctuating
  • Keep the environment healthy
• GARDEN OF QUOTATIONS
  • Thomas Fuller
    • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry
  • Ban ki-moon
    • There is still enough water for all of us ----but only so long as we keep it clean ,use it more wisely ,and share it fairly
• Source
  • manufacturing emissions
  • poorly trested sewage
  • industrial spills
  • agricultural runoff