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Friday, December 5, 2014

Water Scarcity - Resource Optimization can be a solution

It is a universal fact to say the water scarcity affects every continent; despite the size of population or possessive of resource availability for different nations. It is believed always 1/5th of the world's population live with water scarcity and this means nearly 1.5 billion are affected now 500 million  additional people reaches to this situation. Economic water shortage happens when countries fail to develop the infrastructure to access water from rivers and aquifers. It is estimated 2 billion people in the world sustains their life with economic scarcity of the water. 

The use of water and the demand for water accelerates twice more than the growth in population due to effective demand created from industrialization, from agriculture and farming sector and due to undoubtedly human factors like wastage of water. Some waters are polluted and unsustainably managed to leave a benefit for the masses of people.  Due to this years ahead are more prone to global water scarcity. Evidence suggests that world has huge reserve of fresh water which is sufficient for seven billion people in the world , however, till today we are not able to find a way to distribute evenly the water resource to these seven billion people and even distribution of water logically is impracticable but only theoretical. 

All in All, water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made phenomenon.  Today, we, Maldives faced Water scarcity due to damages for water plants and we strive for it. We spent hours restlessly in queues to access for clean , potable drinking water.  Water is the foundation for life & it is not surprising to know some people spent their entire days in searching for it. For future consumption, we need to develop strong boundaries for resource optimization rather than over-exploitation of resources. 

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