Water is the most essential properties of life in our planet. Around 70% of our worlds surface is
covered in water. The human body consists of 71 percent water. And the water doesn’t stay
inside us, we are constantly taking the water out with many other materials, and we need to be
able to refill the water that we excrete throughout our Daly life. Even though a huge part of the
earth is water, not all of it is made to be digested by humans, around 90% of the water is salt
water, usually coming from oceans. The other 10 percent is also not completely drinkable,
there is around 5% of water that. Is made out of either to germinated water that has to many
bacteria or alga, or water from swamps that has too much microbes living inside it.
So basically 50% of the 10% of the unsalted water is drinkable. And most of that water comes
from lakes. And if that goes to waste we can see a huge decline in our population due to
starvation and dehydration.
In the recent years, we have seen a lot of droughts growing and problems with sewage and
water use, and transport. One example is the California water crisis. California depends on the
Colorado river for its water consumption and sells its products through out 95 percent of its
region formed by Hoover Dam, is the primary reservoir in the Colorado River. In the past 10
years the Colorado river basin has been lowered by a couple of feet, this is immense
considering that the Colorado river covers about 246,000 square miles. this has affected
over 40 million people in California only. Due to this California is placing laws and
demands save the water use. A big quantity of the water drought is due to pollution. The
pollution affects the cloud patterns witch also affect the rain patterns, and it affects the
ecology around it. If the biome doesn’t have tress to attract the water and hold the soil
together then a lot of landslides, can happen and the water stops spreading as much.
One of the methods California has implemented is water abuse fees. They charge
people over a 1000 dollars for abusing water use, and have a restriction of how much
water they can use for a specific action. The citizens had made over 4000 phone calls
on water abuse reports, which is a good thing because it shows that the people are
interested in saving our environment. California has also implemented methods of
getting water in other ways. One way if a fog catcher, it uses bug kites that collect fog
and rain. This surprisingly collects an immense amount of water. It takes about 56000,
to fog in one cubic mile… that is a lot since usually fogs are greater than a cubic mile.
Another way the state is collecting water is by aquifers, these act like huge filters that
collect water from any kind of water. One of my suggestions is to not only in California
but worldwide to reduce or create a limit to the amount of gas someone can use. And if
that’s not possible I would suggest the sate gives special premium discounts and
passes to people that are moving to electric car. This is not only for todays pollution but
to move to a safer world for tomorrow.
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There is a problem occurring in the river of Nile. Egypt of located at the end of the
downstream of the Nile and usually is the last one to receive the nutrients from the
water. And usually the water is of course the least nutritious there since by the time it
arrives to Egypt the water collected al the garbage and soil from the upstream. Ethiopia
which is a country that lives upstream I the Nile is planning on planting a damn for their
country. Ethiopia is a country that is full of starving people needs more nutrients like
water from the Blue Nile. Egypt also fully relies on the Nile river’s water since the
closest bodies of water is the red and Mediterranean Sea. Egypt has been given the
right to veto any constructions or works in the upstream since it completely relies on the
soil that is nourished by the Nile river, and a reduction of the river by a huge damn like
Ethiopia, can cause a major outbreak. The Ethiopian government is trying to implement
a huge 6,000 Mega Watt damn, that is located somewhere around the upstream of the
Blue Nile. This is mostly a problem because it is located upstream which means that it
will affect the flow of a really big part of the river. The damn will reduce reduction of 85%
of the maximum monthly flow of the Blue Nile. It is goanna be acting like a huge
reservoir for the country. Countries like Egypt has its population clumped up along the
edge of the river the provides rich green soils, right next to the river. The president of
Egypt said, “water is a matter of life or death.” “No one can touch Egypt's share of
water” basically he states here that if they build a damn then they will choke out the
water from the Nile river, and kill the vegetation. Egypt cannot afford a decrease in its
water income by that huge amount, and it is estimated that its population is goanna
increase by double the amount, in the next 50 years. Other countries downstream the
Nile like Sudan, and Eritrea also worry over the great construction of the damn. Even
though this will impact Egypt since it already has a decrease of 25% of its vegetation at
2016, it will also make Ethiopia a better country. The Ethiopians are calling it a
renaissance for their country since this damn will greatly impact Ethiopia’s economy and
food source. I don’t see any good solutions or suggestions to the solution to this, but if
Egypt is willing to they can veto the use of the damn of Ethiopia, considering that they
have the power to veto since any kind of construction that happens upstream can affect
Egypt in many ways. Another temporary solution for Ethiopia to lower the high of the
damn since it can now preserve around 4 billion cubic meters of water.
these days a lot of pollution is affecting the change in the health of the water, and the
amount of water a specific environment can hold. Acid rain causes plants to die and
those plants are supposed to be able to hold the water and the soil together for them.
Earth’s population is rising rapidly and exponentially, if some countries that can barely
support their people with enough water not to even starve to death, imagine how they
will be able to support people that in the future will be in so much greater quantities. Our
pollution is also increasing, just a little as 0,1 percent of acidity rise and 43 percent of
the sea population will be extinct. A lot of microorganisms like phytoplankton and other
oxygen creating and garbage collecting organisms die and leave pure waste in our
earth. 72% of plants are produced by aquatic plants and animals. Projects that are
consisted of gas burning and disruption to the water like dams can seriously affect the
lakes rivers and the seas and lakes. For now, the best solutions to clean waters are
some technologies like the warka water tower witch is a tower mad out of all natural
products like bamboo, and some recycled mesh, and it collects water out of thin air
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(water vapor). It works similar to the fog catchers which are described in the previous
paragraphs. Other minor water purification products like the tiny UV water purifier made
up first in Ethiopia, which takes the UV light to purify water, and acts like a solar panel
but for UV light. These things can be mass produced easily and reduce purification
times from 48 hours to 20 minutes! We can also implement bigger scaled methods like
the pipe floating solar powered-distillation plant. Which is a huge project on California
which can bring 1.5 billion gallons of clean drinking water, and it’s also solar powered
which means wont pollute the environment, California is also working on a similar
project where it is producing an orb that also is powered by solar and wave energy and
clears water.
There are many more technologies arriving in the future but for now laws for
conservation of water would also be good. I think that all countries, including the ones
that are not in risk should make some conservation laws for water abuse, and miss use
of water, enforce laws for littering and so far, because if only the endangered countries
make laws because eventually if we all abuse our environment we will end up like them
and not be able to help each other.