A serious problem affecting countries right across the globe is the lack of water for drinking, washing and other household uses. Why do many countries face water shortages, and what could be done to alleviate the problem?

These days, as the global population increases

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and resource-intensive economic development continues, many parts of the world are failing to meet the accelerating demand for

water

usage, even for daily fundamental usage. As far as I am concerned, the mentioned phenomenon is deprived of several reasons, which can be tackled using appropriate measures.

This

essay will look at the cause and propose some solutions. One of the driving factors of the problem is rapid urbanization and an exponential increase in freshwater demand for households, especially in regions with a precarious

water

supply. The world’s population is just short of eight billion people and keeps moving to urban areas, which can intensify the imbalance between

water

supply and demand and lead to a higher likelihood of

water

shortage conditions.

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in 2020, Cape Town, South Africa experienced a

water

crisis and became the first modern city to effectively run out of drinking

water

as a result

of overconsumption. Another contributing factor is the contaminated and unsafe

water

threatened by human activity. Humans discharge a great amount of sewage and wastewater daily. The majority of wastewater flows back into the environment without being treated, and agricultural and industrial runoff, where pesticides and toxic chemicals leach into the groundwater and nearby freshwater systems.

Consequently

, precious drinking

resources

get contaminated, resulting in less freshwater and drinking

water

available. A study has shown that some agricultural provinces in China are suffering from serious drink shortages because the

water

supply sources are polluted by their own pesticides. To tackle

this

issue, the government should provide more subsidiaries to build

water

infrastructure including wastewater treatment plants to recycle used

water

. Another possible way would be educating people to preserve our unlimited

water

resources

through lessons at schools, daily news or practice of how to preach

water

and how to preserve it through community activities.

As a result

, people would be more aware of the amount of

water

they use daily

as well as

take actions to not uncarefully dispense any contamination to

water

resources

.

To sum up

,

water

resources

have become more and more valuable these days because the current

water

supply cannot meet the urbanization surge.

Water

pollution caused by careless human activities is

also

a primary factor leading to

this

serious problem. Unless we get more major actions from the government and train our own awareness towards using

water

, the next generation will suffer.