Fresh water has always been a limited resource in some parts of the world. Today, however, growing worldwide demand has made this a global problem. What are the causes of the increased demand and what measure could governments and individuals take to respond to this problem? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Lack of still
water
became one of the greatest global issues in the past few years due the different reasons, but mostly due the overpopulation, even in developed
countries
. In
past
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century number of the
people
in the world rapidly increased, so
available
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resources of food, but especially
water
are
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not enough anymore.
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in the global population leads to
the
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higher demands
in
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different products, which requires
expansion
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the expansion
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of various
industries
and productions that spend
enormous
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amount
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amounts
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of
water
in production processes.
In addition
,
industries
, mostly those
connectes
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connected
with large corporations, are the greatest polluters across the world. They
do
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massive
pollution
of
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the enviroment
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enviroment
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environment
with all
kind
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kinds
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of pollutants,
such
as
microplastic
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microplastics
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, medicines and chemicals, that makes
water
sources even more restricted.
Although
large
corporation
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corporations
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are
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the most responsible for huge
water
wastage and
pollution
,
people
do not pay enough attention
on
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things that they can do to mitigate
this
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issues in their households, so
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for instance
the
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most
of
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people
overuse plastic, use non
enviromental
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environmental
environmentally
friendly cleaning products and do not recycle waste. Poor and developing
countries
are suffering because of these issues for a long time, but recently even developed
countries
started to feel the effects of
this
problem, so governments should urgently take measures to prevent more damage.
For instance
, opening
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plants to reduce
pollution
and obligating
industries
to decrease
usage
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of toxic
materias
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materials
by raising taxes on the products that are highly toxic would significantly contribute to preserving
of
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water
resources. There are
few
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positive examples in some
countries
that managed to reduce
amount
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of toxic gases from
industiries
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industries
that could be used as a model in these cases too.
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that
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, raising
awarness
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awareness
among the
people
would
enourage
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encourage
them to contribute as much as they can from their homes. In conclusion, lack of
water
is
great
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global issue
due to
the unresponsible consumption and
pollution
that could be mitigated if governments
encourge
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encourage
industries
to reduce
pollution
and raise
awarness
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awareness
among
population
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the population
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regarding
this
issue.
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