WATER
Reading 1: Water Privatization
There will be clean water crisis by 2025.
- massive industrialization using the water instead of agriculture
- millions of Chinese found their walls dry
- 80% of rivers are also dry - no fish
Maude Barlow, Water as a Commodity – The Wrong Prescription, Institute for Food and Development
Policy Backgrounder, Summer 2001.
Reading 2: Crisis Challenge
Fresh water is constantly being replenished.
- Using freshwater beyond the rate is endangered
- California has 560,000 swimming pools; the Colorado River is starting to dry
up
- overconsumption is the best word to describe you as water use
Dinar Godrej – 2003
Reading 3: Water: The facts
- 97.5% of water is saltwater
- 0.01% of earth water is ending is usable (fresh water)
- mid 1990s 40% of world population encountered water so shortage
Thurman (we don’t know the gender) – 2003
Reading 4: Water Pollution
Water pollution affects ocean streams rivers and so on.
- caused by natural impurities: suspended particles, colloidal particles and
dissolved matter
- Also caused by human activities: sewage, oil, landfill and chemical spills
Patricia Barnes-Svarney, in “The New York public library science desk reference”. 1996
Reading 5: Water Consumption
- Global consumption is doubling every 20 years
- by 2025 more population can cause less water usage
John Vidal, The Guardian, August 2002
Reading 6: Water and Poverty
In poor countries, they do not have access to clean water.
- Children die from diarrhea
- no basic sanitisation
- no school due to illness from not having clean water
James Milner: State of the World’s Children, 2005, (UNICEF)
Reading 7: Coca-Cola: Drinking the world dry
Coca-Cola giving water shortage to Kaladera in India
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negative impact on farmers and local communities
unable to irrigate their land
unable to sustain their crops
at risk to lose their livelihood
might become a “dark zone”
Udisha Saklani (women) - 2017