WATER SHORTAGE By: Paris Alford

Math 141

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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.