Water Consumption

The future of our next generations is becoming worrying. Some actual resources are in danger of scarcity, such as the most important for our life, the water. The world's water consumption is growing every day, as result of the growth  of the world population and human activity. Raising the question: is the currently water available enough for the world's needs?

            According to the website of the United Nations, Brazil is responsible for the biggest concentration of water appropriated for the human consumption. Its territory concentrates about twelve percent of all fresh water of the world. But its huge reserves are irregularly distributed, and do not coincide geographically with the big cities which concentrates most of the Brazilian population. This fact together with the forms of use and mismanagement of water, causing severe consequences on the quality and loss of resource. In the same way, the worldwide  water consumption is growing over the time, and the United States is the country that consume more water in the whole world. Its main aquifer, Ogallala, is suffering a big reduction of its volume. Those numbers are similar in the other countries, and are related with the accelerated growth of agriculture, industries, and urbanization to supply the needs of the world's population. Another big problem is the waste of water in all houses over the world. In many homes it is possible to find inappropriate uses of water, such as leaks in pipelines, toilets with large reservation of water, and use without concern by the population. These facts are generating more consumption, and deterioration of water resources that are still available, a resource that might not exist in future generations.

            To beginning to solve this problem, is required to take some preventive and structural actions are required to minimize losses of water in the world. Some actions need to be applied in the distribution of water to households, supervision of use, and occupation of the available water reserves, in order to prevent degradation of water sources. In addition, educational campaigns about proper use of this important natural resource to reach the population and make them aware about this problem. Also, nations and large organizations need to be in charge of those actions because they have the power of the administration, but the population need to do their part too.

            Because of the growth of the world's water consumption has a big danger of there will not be enough water for the future generation, so in my opinion population and authorities need to join forces to avoid that it happens. Doing it all members will save the world's water preventing the future of the life on Earth. Being a advantage to all, making each one person responsible for the warranty of this resource to the life of our next generations, and also to the present generation.

Igor Lins