I am glad that the
world is taking an inishutive in saving the earth’s fresh water, however I was
alarmed to find that we citizens of the earth are only responsible for 8% of
the wasted fresh water, and the other 92% is because of agriculture and
industry. I never knew this till now, fresh water activists never talk about
what our government’s water wasting problems but they always have something to
say about us… the 8%.
I was alarmed after I read the last paragraph:
(“From a 2007 article by the Food and agriculture organization: "By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living
in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the
world's population could be living under water stress conditions, FAO said
today. Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase
over the last century, making sustainable, efficient and equitable management
of scarce water resources a key challenge for the future, according to FAO's
Pasquale Steduto, current Chair of the United Nations coordination mechanism,
UN-Water.”)(from the actual article). This is our future and we have to
act now.
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