Global Water Crisis Will Shake Humanity To Its Core

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Global Water Crisis Will Shake Humanity To Its Core

You don't hear much about the water crisis in the United States. Water is still cheap here and our borders contain a relatively large freshwater supply.

But in some places the crisis is in flames. 1.6 billion people live in regions with absolute water scarcity and by 2025 two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions. And it's just getting worse.

The following slides contain alarming charts and maps:http://read.bi/SWjFgw

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3 Comments

  1. I agree with you Yogesh. The water crisis is not foremost a crisis of availability, but rather of mismangement. Solutions presented are moreoften doctoring at the symptoms, instead of tackling the root of the problem. We - globally, nationanwide and on regional and local basis - need to think about how to grow more food with less water (and also less land). It´s imperative that Governments take a closer look on implementing projects across scales and borders, backed up by a comprehensive policy framework that is based on sound research. These overarching policies need to be equipped with a high adaptive capacity responding to specific challenges of specific situations. To my mind, one has to look at the smaller units before the big picture can be understood and changed. Only by creating positive exmaples of change within the socio-political nexus of extraction, use and re-use of water by different stakeholders, change on a larger basis can be achieved. Cheers

  2. Thanks for the wonderful statistics on water. They are very resourceful. You are right the water burden will get worse year after year, especially now that the world population has reached 7.05 Billion people mark yet water bodies are not increasing instead being depleted day after day.

  3. The real issue is that there is no comprehensive policy on safe guarding free flow of water in natural drainage channels and willingness of farmers to grow high water consuming crops like rice and wheat. Also there is huge wastage of water in irrigation projects and water application in irrigated fields. Also development through out the world , has increased water consumption for domestic , industrial and agriculture uses. I am of the opinion that instead of piecemeal considerations, a comprehensive policy needs to be formed.