Save Water Now!
Water is an universal right.... Save Water Now!
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> 40% of the world will live in water-scarce regions by 2025 (World Resurce Institute, UN Environment Programme)
http://apps.facebook.com/changes... Every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease; as a 747 jetliner full of kids going down every hour... > "Of all the social and natural crises we humans face, the water crisis is the one that lies at the heart of our survival and that of our planet Earth." (Koichiro Matsuura, the director general of Unesco) > - So much water is drawn from the Colorado River (which formed the Grand Canyon) that often it doesn’t flow to the sea. - The Aral Sea, the fourth largest inland sea, will cease to exist within the next decade, as its waters are rapidly being used up for farming. - The Snowy River in Australia was reduced to about 1% of its original flow before action was taken to restore environmental flows. > Water has been a contentious issue in recent negotiations between Israel and Syria. In recent years, Iraq, Syria and Turkey have exchanged verbal threats over their use of shared rivers. More frequently water is being likened to another resource that quickened global tensions when its supplies were threatened. A story in The Financial Times of London began: "Water, like energy in the late 1970s, will probably become the most critical natural resource issue facing most parts of the world by the start of the next century." This analogy is also reflected in the often repeated observation that water will likely replace oil as a future cause of war between nations. A prime cause of the global water concern is the ever-increasing world population. As populations grow, industrial, agricultural and individual water demands escalate. According to the World Bank, world-wide demand for water is doubling every 21 years, more in some regions. Water supply cannot remotely keep pace with demand, as populations soar and cities explode. Meanwhile many countries suffer accelerating desertification. Water quality is deteriorating in many areas of the developing world as population increases and salinity caused by industrial farming and over-extraction rises. About 95 percent of the world's cities still dump raw sewage into their waters. Within a few years, a water crisis of catastrophic proportions will explode upon us — unless aroused citizens ... demand of their leadership actions reflecting vision, understanding and courage. Water is a very scarce and valuable natural resource.............. Save water NOW! KNOWING IS NOT ENOUGH, WE MUST APPLY. WILLING IS NOT ENOUGH, WE MUST DO. (Goethe) -- CHANGE THE WORLD! Join us even at change.com @: http://apps.facebook.com/changes... -- Join even the WATER IS AN UNIVERSAL RIGHT; SAVE WATER NOW! new Group @: http://www.facebook.com/group.ph... Thanks & Cyberly! -- MM |
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