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WATER SHORTAGE By: Paris Alford
Math 141
This pie chart represents the 783 million
people that lack safe, drinking water
around the world.
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• Clean water is necessary for life
because every human being needs
at least 20 to 50 liters of water a day
in order to survive.
• It’s a basic human right.
• Water is essential for hydration and
food production
• Plus its needed for sanitary
conditions
• Problems that come from dirty water:
• Polluted water is deadly- around 1.8 million
people die a year from dirty water
conditions.
• Dirty water is a breeding ground for deadly
diseases like cholera
• If water is dirty throughout a place, then it
usually leads to the economy in that area to
be bad too
• When kids don’t have clean, safe water to
use and drink, then they become sick, which
can in turn hurt the education system
because the kids end up missing school
This information was found at http://www.drinking-
water.org/html/en/Overview/Quality.html
In this bar graph, it shows the amount of fresh water
that is found in the world, along with undrinkable
water. As you can see there is only 2.5% of freshwater
that is available to the world. A majority of that fresh
water though is found in glaciers and ice caps. This
graph breaks down fresh water percentage, and it
then breaks that down into where its located in the
world like if its in lakes or underground etc.
“As shown in pie chart to the right, on average more
than half of the water demand was met with non
groundwater supplies. These non-groundwater are
primarily comprised of CAP water and surface water
diverted from the Salt, Verde, Gila, Agua Fria or
Santa Cruz rivers. Effluent is a smaller but growing
non-groundwater source used in the planning area.”
(“Water Supply”)
• The population has more than doubled in the last
50 years, causing a need for more water, but also
people have gotten careless with it.
• Pollution in the air/atmosphere
• Pollution in the sewage system, which can leak
into the ocean etc.
• Urbanization
• Climate Change
• Vegetation destruction and Deforestation
"Threats to Water Supply and Causes of Water
Scarcity." Threats to Water Supply and Causes of
Water Scarcity. E-school Today, 2010. Web. 27 Oct.
2014.
The main cause for water shortage in Arizona is simple its people. Basically people are
being wasteful with water, and are not conserving water like they should. They are
causing more pollution and aren’t trying to change the fact the there is a water shortage
in Arizona.
Arizona provides clean and safe water by using large
municipal water delivery systems which rely on rivers,
lakes, and reservoirs. The smaller and rural
communities rely on private water sources. In either case, ADEQ's Safe Drinking Water Program
works to ensure the water they are served is clean
and healthy through a wide variety of programs
designed to prevent, detect and correct any
possible contamination of drinking water or drinking
water sources.
Future of Water Scarcity
Powers, Madison. "Water Scarcity
Issues: We're Running out of Water."
FEW Resources.org. Newsweek, 29
Oct. 2014. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
The water scarcity in the world is
projected to worsen because of
the factors that are contributing to
water scarcity. The first being the
population, since the population is
increasing and a rapid rate, the
amount of fresh water that is on
earth, is not enough to sustain the
population growth. Another factor
is that the environment and
pollution that we humans cause
are having a major impact on
fresh water.
World Water Risk
The colors on this map represent which
parts of the world are at risk for
undrinkable water. It also helps to show
where places that lack clean drinking
water tie into poverty. Red being the
worst and light yellow being okay.
Africa and the middle east, around
Asia, and parts of South America are
where poverty is most seen in the world
today. These places are also the areas
where a lack of clean and safe drinking
water is prominent. So yes there is a
relationship between poverty and a
lack of clean drinking water.
Ramirez, Vicky. "8 Maps That Will Change the Way
You Look at Africa." ONE. N.p., 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 30
Oct. 2014.
Alois, Paul. "Global Water Crisis Overview." World's
Biggest Problems. Arlington Institute, Apr. 2007.
Web. 1 Nov. 2014.
Countries differ in water usage by the population number, how
must fresh water is available and the resources they have.
Countries with a high population count, tends to need more
water, now if that country has a high poverty rate, then most likely
there isn’t enough resources to have clean safe water for
everyone. The water usage is different depending on agriculture,
resources, and the poverty rate.
Arizona’s water usage is mainly used towards agriculture, and the
population needs. A lot of the water usage goes towards
recreational uses, like pools, watering the grass, etc. With Arizona
being one of the driest states in America, it takes a lot more
water to supply to everyone to keep the land and people
healthy. Other states like California, have a water usage higher in
agriculture, and less in recreational usage.
Water Scarcity
Economic growth will be hindered with the lack of clean water. In the more developing countries water
scarcity, will completely stop economic growth because it will contribute to malnutrition, and disease,
allowing less people to work and help the economy.
Everyone needs water, clean and safe water, to survive, otherwise the body won’t be able to
function properly. Health is a huge concern when it comes to a country, in order for it to
prosper, the country has to have healthy people. Water scarcity has a huge impact on health,
it can cause diseases, malnutrition which can damage a body.
When a kid is sick, they have to miss school, same goes when a child is malnutrition.
Without water kids, parents, everyone suffers especially the education system. If there
are no kids to teach ,then people lose their jobs, and its like a domino effect after that.
Some ways we can address the water crisis is by actually reading up
on it, and education people on it, and looking into different
organizations that are helping to reverse the water crisis. If we don’t
ignore it, and change they way we view it, we can potentially help to
reverse it before its to late.
Some Solutions:
• Fix leaking pipes (helps to conserve water)
• Conserve Water (even a little bit helps)
• Read up on tricks on how to save water (can also save you money)
• Recycle
• Be more economic about water usage
• Have more efficient water heaters
I believe that we can solve the water shortage in Arizona, it just takes everyone in
participating with the solutions. If everyone tries then there shouldn’t be reason why
the water shortage can’t be fixed.
Solutions:
• Better water system
• Conserving of water (even a little helps)
• Using water for more of a purpose les recreational
• Educate people on the water shortage
• More efficient use of water
• Technology to help manage water usage in a home
The global water shortage is increasing everyday, and if we don’t start to pay
attention to it then we will eventually loose a lot of resources including fresh,
clean water. It impacts our everyday lives, and I especially impacts economic
growth. I learned that poverty and water scarcity go hand in hand and effect
each other. The Arizona Water shortage, impacts a lot of the states around it
and is getting worse. I learned about some of the proposed solutions that
could potentially help reduce the water shortage, and also educate people
on the importance of water. Some solutions are easy to do, and can easily be
done, it just takes persuading the people to do them. Like with conserving
water, or fixing leaking pipes. It may sound like it’s a lot of work and hard, but it
actually isn’t. Plus more than half of the world are in water scarcity, especially
in the under-developed countries.
Clean Drinking Water
Unicef/UN Report Pie Chart
Joan Rose, PhD
Copyright 2014 Water Quality and Health Council
“Safe Drinking Water is Essential- Quality.” Drinking-
Water.org. National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
Web. 28 Oct. 2014.
Perlman, Howard. "Where Is Earth's Water? USGS
Water- Science School." USGS. U.S Department of the
Interior, 17 Mar. 2014. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. "Water Supply - CAP." Water Supply - Central Arizona
Project. Arizona Department of Water Resources, 27
Mar. 2014. Web. 30 Oct. 2014.
"Threats to Water Supply and Causes of Water
Scarcity." Threats to Water Supply and Causes of
Water Scarcity. E-school Today, 2010. Web. 27 Oct.
2014.
Powers, Madison. "Water Scarcity Issues: We're
Running out of Water." FEW Resources.org.
Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2014. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
Ramirez, Vicky. "8 Maps That Will Change the Way
You Look at Africa." ONE. N.p., 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 30
Oct. 2014.
Alois, Paul. "Global Water Crisis Overview." World's
Biggest Problems. Arlington Institute, Apr. 2007. Web.
1 Nov. 2014.
"Arizona Water Usage." Arizona Water. Department
of Water Resources, July 2012. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.