Lack of fresh water is becoming a global issue of increasing importance. What problems does the shortage cause? What measures could be taken to overcome these problems?

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water
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is the
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that contains low concentrations of dissolved salt and other total solids, which is 3% of the
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1.2% is locked up in the glaciers, ice caps and
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buried deep
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under ground
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. The significance of
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freshwater
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water
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is uncountable and can never be listed out, making us realize that
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is indispensable.
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, we utilize fresh
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for drinking, cooking food, washing, crop growing, farming, food processing, gardening and so on.
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it is a key to
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economic development if we carefully study
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importance
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it
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. The shortage of
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is caused by many reasons, mainly due to growth in population
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industrialization, global warming and humans' carelessness. The scarcity of
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has been
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affecting the lives of
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the population in developing countries due to
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of technology and services.
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has been a hazard to the regions where the
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resources have been lesser than the rest of the world. In
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places, women even the children have to walk for miles to carry a pot of drinking
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,
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children mostly miss their education
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in order to survive their lives. Another issue is that, if the rain does not come in time, crops and animals die, leading to
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disasters
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as starvation and malnutrition.
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badly affects the wildlife resulting
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even more
evenmore
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some delicate species may extinct. One of the other
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is that, spreading of
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diseases
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as diarriayah and cholera, making worse the lives of those suffering without sufficient
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. In fact,
unavailabilty
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unavailability
or shortage of
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leads directly and indirectly to hundreds of issues that decide the existence of living beings on
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. Since the
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's
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resource is getting smaller and we are leading towards a dry era, prompt as well as sustainable actions must be taken to mitigate the potential risk coming on our way. Describing
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the long terms plans to tackle the impact, crop growing and plantation consumes a large volume of
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but it should necessarily not be the purified
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.
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, treated
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from a
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treatment process
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can be used.
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method is already in operation in many countries and has been a very effective sustainable way of preserving the
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resource.
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process kills the harmful germs in treated
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drinkable. Though people are now reluctant to use it, the technology should be
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developed as it will certainly come in handy in future. Coming to
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,
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bill of municipal
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supply can be increased so that
pleople
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people
tend to be careful not to waste
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even though they have no idea of how scares the
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is.
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television advertisements and awareness
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programmes
should be introduced for the general public to understand the value of
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water
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. In conclusion, even though our
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is covered with
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, the
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water
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or potable
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volume is like a tiny barge in the Atlantic Ocean. There is no life if there is no
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.
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, future consequences must be realized and precautions must be taken to preserve
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invaluable
life giving
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drink
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before it is too late.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • water scarcity
  • irrigation
  • contaminated
  • waterborne diseases
  • ecosystems
  • biodiversity
  • pandemics
  • economic downturn
  • social unrest
  • food security
  • resource management
  • conservation efforts
  • sustainable
  • desalination
  • rainwater harvesting
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