The Global Water Crisis: The Invisible Threat to
Humanity’s Future
Despite
the critical role that water has in our everyday lives, few people realize that
the world’s freshwater supply is facing a major crisis in the near future. With a billion more people to fed by 2025 and
increasing industrialization and standards of living, freshwater demand will
continue to grow. By 2025, water
withdrawals will skyrocket by 50% in developing countries and 18% in developed
countries.
The Global Suply of Water is Limited.
Yet demand for water keeps growing. 2.5% of the world’s water is freshwater. 1% of the world’s freshwater is easily
accessible to human use. 29% of the
world’s freshwater is underground. 70% of the world’s freshwater is in the form
of snow cover on mountains. In just 40 years, the world’s population has
doubled while our use of freshwater has quadrupled. The world’s population is
using 54% of the available freshwater supply.
By 2025, there will also be one
billion more mouths to feed, requiring an additional one trillion cubic meters
of water for agriculture alone. This will lead to 1.8 billion people living in
absolute water scarcity and 2/3 of the world’s population in stress conditions
from water shortage.
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