Please read the full article and just try to Imagine the points I discussed below .....
But Today 7 out of 10 people in the Earth can count on having running water in their homes, Wells and municipalities ... The water that stored in rivers and dams from the risers to connecting mains, and finally through the big sizers of tanks which we can see in our villages towns and water management of municipalities and their storage tanks connects into every street and home out there .. the process may vary but the same theme in each country...
Let me tell you about Cape Town who faced a water crisis by the name of zero-day ...
Cape town in Africa ... It could become the first major city in the world to run out of water..the news announced on April 2018 that they have only 90 days till date zero .. it means they are out of water reserves. They have to consider this as a serious problem .. the first country that planning to shut off its water supply .. it results from 4million people would stop getting the water ... Just imagine the problem there .. and it means they have to buy the water and lined up in taps which is a common one. Limited resources available .. and it's not the only country there are many more included Sao Paula, Melbourne, Jakarta, London, Beijing, Istanbul, Tokyo, Bangalore, Barcelona, and Mexico City.. you heard right Bangalore is not much distance from our places. Still, it soon affects the other states like Kerala Ap, Telangana, and other states too .. will face day zero in the next decade... it's counting now .. unless our water has to used radically changes...
Stats said that by 2040 half of the world is out of the water
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We have less left in our reserves .. we are at a real inflexion point where, if we are not careful we may actually get out ahead of our ability to manage it...
There is no substitute for water ... Yes, we may die within a few days without water.. it is essentially more than gold... Hope with this COVID outbreak.. everyone rushed out to stock food and water but not money or luxuries .. of course, money is needed but not more than perfect life and basic needs .. it is impossible to build a next level world for our and future generations ... As this crisis grows to try to imagine the new world looks like... it's a dead bath...
The circumstances are water becomes invisible gold ... People claim it .. store it .. sell it .. treasure it ... As again it turned into a business model as already big investors are planning and implement it .. we already started drinking it by buying ...
Earth is having 326 million trillion gallons of it and considered as blue planet .. it always has, always will.
Water may freeze into Ice. Or evaporated into the air but it doesn't leave our planet .. that's nature, but as a human, we are behaving like a culprit to nature .. we are wasting it for our own temporary comforts...
Consider 100% water on Earth out of 97% is saltwater, 2% is frozen ice, and the whole world relies on remaining 1% of the water to survive ...that left water we rely on is most of it is underground and really difficult and expensive to get to.. so humans have mostly settled in nearby rivers, and freshwater lakes .. like surface waters... It would be amazed that around 90% of the world population lives less than ten kilometres from freshwater sources...
Nasa satellite data shows aquifers in northern India decreasing by 29 trillion gallons in just a decade... There are simply more people on Earth consuming more water.. this century water consumption ha increased sevenfold and the rain and snow what we count on to water crops and refill lakes and rivers are getting less reliable .. even TTD announce that they are fewer water reserves may run out by next 5 years or less ... They depend on rains only .. climate change is one of the hot topics that much more eradicate the water experiencing extended dry periods ...
The points to understood by us are
The problem isn't just that there are more people on Earth using water. it's how were they using water
Humans need a gallon of water per day to drink...
Brushing and wading your hands typically a gallon but it may be increased and no exact date because we have to wash hands to stay safe from the virus now.. for flushing toilet three gallons... But the drinking, washing, and toilet flushing of every person on Earth only accounts for 8% of our freshwater use every year... most of the water for agriculture and industry and into the food and products we use daily...
1. Coco cola bottle - 98% of the water in that bottle is not what you see in that bottle.. 98% of water is embedded in all the ingredients grown to make a bottle coke.
2.74 litres of water goes into every glass of beer
3. Coffee - 130 litres
4. One cotton shirt - 2500 litres
5. Apple - 140 litres
6. Bread - 1608 litres per kg
7. Banana - 160 litres
8. Cheese - 5060 lit/kg
9.burger - 15000 litres/kg
The cattle feed consumes 510 liters/kg ... An average cow consumes 12 kg per day ...
These are just a number multiply it with millions of human beings and living being on Earth and yes that hugeeeeeeeeee...
The fact is Americans eat and that and equally to the consumption of the whole world...farmers hardly pay anything for water .. and in most places in the world, water is treated and priced like there will always be enough of it. So we end up using it in absurdly wasteful ways...
The bank Goldman Sachs predicted that water would be The petroleum for the next century.. many big firms already started buying the water and storing it for their benefits by thing advantage of scarcity... if you thought positive everything is positive ..consider putting a price for water benefits all of us and next generations too .. by valuing water as we should and sending, you know, a price signal is that we wouldn't be growing alfalfa in the desert ... We wouldn't be growing crops that don't make sense in really arid places... Because the economics of it wouldn't make sense.. the most of the farmlands in the world are just simply flooding the fields which because it was available and free.. of government decided the water as worth to the money the absolute usage is being used and remaining won't be wasted or overflowed or carried away with leakages...
Because of low valuing the water, we dump 2 million tons of Agri, industrial waste into it every single day ... A Telugu proverb says it all if we get burnt our hands then we know the value of something which leads to it .. as same we find the cost of water truly is.
But you may get the doubt that Governments are increasingly the eying an idea that was once far-fetched like creating more water from it .. Desalination of ocean water has more than doubled over the last decade. However, the amount we make a year still adds up to led than 1% of the water we use, and it's shocking !!!!
May rise up and touches the sky and leads some industries to downfall or collapse simply ...
In 2017, Philadelphia started experimenting with trying water prices to income, we need to price it so that we protect basic human needs. But it can inspire people to act in exceptional ways to solve it... We first spoke about Capetown water zero and the government came up with a solution .. ... Cape town's day zero was actually scheduled for March 2018. Still, the people started conserving ... They pushed back the day zero to a month until July 9th Authorities expect Day Zero. It's been dubbed, to take place at the end of August instead of July... that resulted as the city's water consumption was less than half what it had been just four years earlier. The Day Zero clock was paused indefinitely ... Not enough action was taken until they started talking about Day Zero that really got people's attention. It was remarkable, between the time that City started to talk about Day Zero and, a month later, how much people cut back their water use. And it shows what we can do. But Cape town also got lucky... It rained... But luck won't apply for each and every city out there...
The trick is recognizing the water how valuable is before there isn't enough of it and we have to remember that our fates are tied to what we rush out our taps.
By this, I vowed that I will reduce the water use in my most possible ways ...
1. Cut down running water while brushing.
2. I am flushing while going for the toilet as it is written on it but many won't watch it ... Half flush for the toilet and a full flush for poop
3. Stopped bathing under the open shower and tried to fill the bucket and do bath
4. Used recycled water for planting trees
5. Reduced the running water by washing dishes.
6. Contacted a plumber to fit tight the taps which loosen. I observed that many household tap connections are loose...The loose of taps and human error costs huge...
7. Educated people to reduce the water wastage
8. Suggesting constructors build rainwater harvesting systems to save some rainwater...
There are a lot more... I am trying to change, and it is your turn ... It's time to prove that works are united that we are together to save the water for future generations.
My sincere request to the people out there is to please reduce water usage and spread the word...
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