The Depletion of Water
ByThe Depletion of Fresh Water
70% of earth’s surface is filled with water but only 3% of that water is fresh. 2.6% of that 3% is locked in ice glaciers or polar ice caps, leaving us with 0.4% of fresh water (WorldWaterReserve, 2017). To drink water, we need it to be fresh. Some people think we can drink all water, but we can’t. Even though we always have drinkable water everywhere we go, that water is depleting. 900 BILLION gallons of water is used every single year (edp.gov, 2014). There could be so much more than that. The average person’s daily life per day uses 300 gallons of water (water.philla.gov, 2022). This impacts almost all living things. And they will die.
In the following article I will talk about
- How it happened
- Who it affects
- What can we do to stop it
How it Happened
When earth was made it had several amounts of fresh water but now that water is “magically disappearing”. We know the main cause is global warming. Global warming has affected us for centuries. Although we are losing fresh water due to it, we could gain some Since global warming Is melting the polar ice caps; we could have some more freshwater.
Another reason could be our cause. Like I pointed out before, an average family uses 300 gallons of water. We waste a lot of waterlike using the shower too much, leaving the sink on, or using a hose. There are more reasons for that lack of fresh water. But those are the ones that use the most.
Like I said earlier, almost every living thing on our planet earth needs water. Plants need water, animals need water, and OfCourse we need water. Without water we wouldn’t be able to survive. For humans we can only last 3 days without (MedicalNewsToday, 2019). In the future, human existence could vanish because of this problem. We need to figure out how to stop the depletion of fresh water or our existence will die in a few days.
How We Can Stop it
We’ve lived on earth for a long time to have the technology and motivation to fix it, but we lack interest. People don’t understand that this is a serios problem. The indigenous people are the ones who care. Indigenous people have found ways to make fresh water. Crazy right? This whole problem just to find out we can make fresh water. Anyway, indigenous people used the suns heat to boil the water to make it clean. What I find fascinating is what Is causing us to have no fresh water is a way to make fresh water.
