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GLOBAL WATER CRISIS
If you live in an industrialized country you no doubt have noticed that large factories have clustered around important rivers.
Most of the people on our planet live where water is not plentiful and relatively few people, live in areas where rainfall is abundant and in few people live in desert like countries where rainfall is minimal.
Years ago such disparities in water supplies did not cause serious problems, according to one survey in 1950 no region on earth suffered from a very low or extremely low water supply. But those times of plentiful water have changed In dry regions of North Africa and Central Asia the amount of water available per person has dropped to a tenth of what used to be in the 1950’s.
In some parts of the world the demand for fresh clean water has already begun to outstrip the supply, the report from the U.N stated that 3.7 % of all deaths are attributed to water related diseases and more people die from polluted water every year than any form of violence including war and some substantiated claims from individuals such as Boutros Ghali and former King Hussein of Jordan claims that ‘the next war in the Middle East will be over water.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20010622/article_02.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/22/health/main6323068.shtml
http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/154/lonergan.html
Research question: How can we save our water?
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