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GOOGLE DOCS LINK  [|__Global issue : water__] Is there enough clean water for all of us on the planet? Are there better ways to make it available?

http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

Today’s water crisis is not an issue of scarcity, but of access. More people in the world own cell phones than have access to a toilet. And as cities and slums grow at increasing rates, the situation worsens. Every day, lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills thousands, leaving others with reduced quality of life.

884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people

People living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city

An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day

Only 62% of the world’s population has access to improved sanitation – defined as a sanitation facility that ensures hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact.

Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.

Almost two in every three people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day and one in three on less than $1 a day.





The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since [|__dinosaurs roamed the Earth__] , hundreds of millions of years ago.

[|__Freshwater__]  makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.

nfortunately, humans have proved to be inefficient water users.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/

Global Water is an international, non-profit, humanitarian organization founded in 1982

**TOKYO**  For nearly four weeks, Japanese emergency crews have been spraying water on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, a desperate attempt to avert the calamity of a full meltdown. Now, that improvised solution to one nuclear nightmare is spawning another: what to do with the millions of gallons of water that has become highly radioactive as it washes through the plant. The water being used to try to cool the reactors and the dangerous spent fuel rods is leaking through fissures inside the plant, seeping down through tunnels and passageways to the lowest levels, where it is accumulating into a sea of lethal waste.

Read more: [|__http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/04/06/1955256/japan-grapples-with-problem-of.html#ixzz1IqeJOo1u__]

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Water Crisis** = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth - coupled with industrialization and urbanization - will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=25__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000033; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**The world's supply of fresh water is running out. Already one person in five has no access to safe drinking water. Click on the map to read about some of the world's water flashpoints.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Water crisis** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a term used to refer to the world’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|water resources] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> relative to human demand. The term has been applied to the worldwide water situation by the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|United Nations] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and other world organizations.

The <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Earth] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has a limited supply of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|fresh water] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, stored in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|aquifers] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|surface waters] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|atmosphere] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Sometimes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|oceans] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are mistaken for available water, but the amount of energy needed to convert <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|saline water] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|potable water] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is prohibitive today, explaining why only a very small fraction of the world's water supply derives from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|desalination] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|[9]]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crisis__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Slow the Melt** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The glaciers that provide Europe with drinking water have lost more than half their volume in the last century. In this photo, workers at the Pitztal Glacier ski resort in Austria push a fleece-like blanket down the glacier's slope to protect the snow during the summer months.

Read more: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1724375_1552699,00.html#ixzz1IqhkD5fr__]

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**VIDEO ON WATER CRISIS LINK BELOW :** ======

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.schooltube.com/video/ba38036301564ff88387/Water-Crisis__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike war and terrorism, the global water crisis does not make media headlines, despite the fact that it claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Unlike natural disasters, it does not rally concerted international action, despite the fact that more people die each year from drinking dirty water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes combined. This is a silent crisis experienced by the poor, and tolerated by those with the resources, technology, and the political power to end it. Yet this is a crisis that is holding back human progress, consigning large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability, and insecurity. At Living Water International, we are addressing this most basic of needs by helping deprived communities acquire safe, clean water. Our goal is to substantially ease the global water crisis while addressing root causes such as injustice, oppression, and abject poverty. As this happens, communities and worldviews are transformed—both among those in desperate physical need, and among those who have been blessed with much.





<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine an ice-cold glass of clean water. Imagine having to walk 3.7 miles to get that glass of clean water.

Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health.

“We decided to discuss water because water is a very tangible issue,” said junior and president of UCGH Rachel Warsco. “It is an issue which is a lot better to understand than the economy.”

Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and how Water.org is helping with the issue. According to the website, 884 million people worldwide lack access to safe water supplies. Water.org seeks to work with various countries around the world to help them make a difference in water sanitation. Among its programs are water education, water technology and water credit. Swanson encouraged the audience to take action.



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/environment/water/water_crisis.html__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The world faces an unprecedented crisis in water resources management, with profound implications for global food security, protection of human health, and maintenance of aquatic ecosystems. Water shortages threaten to reduce global food supply, while the world’s population grows by 80 million people each year. With current trends, by 2025, one-third of all humans will face severe and chronic water shortages. Industrialization, irrigated agriculture, massive urbanization, rising standards of living, and, of course, more people are pushing the demand for freshwater to new heights, undermining already fragile water security for many nations. Water security is an elusive concept, but consensus is beginning to emerge in the world community as to its dimensions, its parameters, and the best approaches for its achievement. As endorsed by the Second World Water Forum Ministerial Declaration (2000), water security simultaneously considers the need for human access to safe and affordable water for health and well-being, the assurance of economic and political stability, the protection of human populations from the risks of water-related hazards, the equitable and cooperative sharing of water resources, the complete and fair valuation of the resource, and the sustainability of ecosystems at all parts of the hydrologic cycle. The water crisis is not one of absolute scarcity as much as poor management and inequitable distribution. Regardless of the cause, some regions require particularly urgent action. Of the 48 countries experiencing chronic water shortages (by 2025), 40 are either in the Middle East and North Africa or in sub-Saharan Africa. The 20 countries of the Middle East and North Africa face the worst prospects. Worldwide demand for water tripled during the past century, and is presently doubling every 21 years. Clearly, such demand is unsustainable in the long term and will require dramatic new approaches to water resources management to avoid the worst of the looming crisis. Some would ask how a planet that has 70 percent of its surface covered with water could face a water crisis. More than 97 percent of that water is ocean water. Of the remaining three percent, about three-quarters is locked away in ice caps or glaciers, and is thus unavailable. In truth, slightly less than one one-hundredth of one percent of the world’s total supply of water is easily accessible as lakes, rivers, and shallow groundwater sources that are renewed by snow and rainfall. Water scarcity is further compounded by the disparity between where human populations are located and when and where rainfall and runoff occurs. Viewed in this manner, 81 percent of total global runoff is within geographic reach for human use, but three-quarters of that comes as floodwater and therefore is not accessible on demand.

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