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The scarcity of water is well-known fact and documented.
The rivers that used to flow still 10 or 20 years ago are part of a picture past.

Most of the giants Dams constructed to commercialize this vital liquid have made the rivers disappear.

Every year, fewer and fewer rivers, streams, and broadways are filled with rain water: Dams, pools, artificial lakes, bottled water, super agriculture, and golf courses are the cause of the droughts around the world.

Pessimist? No, I’m just realistic.
The good news is that there is a Global Council Water Club that gets paid to bring water to all the citizens of the world because water it is a human right. The bad news and that almost no one in the world knows that they exist, and people, animals, and lands are dying for the lack of water.

American Indian nations have had their lands, water rights, fishing rights, and sacred sites taken from them. The case of Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River is different in that it did not directly impact the Navajo Reservation, but it indirectly led to the destruction of the traditional Navajo economy, and the creation of poverty and economic inequality among the Navajo.

The Global Water Council

Names of projects and links to UN were updated on August 10, 2023.

There is also the UN-Water Project. They both exist as separate entities. The UN Water Project changed its name to UN-Water since I published this research paper back in 2012.

They generate a report every 3 years. Just to illustrate the banality of these UN projects. Palestine has been suffering from a lack of water. Israel is holding Palestine hostage on water supplies.

Israel controls the aquifers, and Palestine by law can’t dig for new wells. According to certain accords signed decades ago at the White House. “Palestinians can not dig for fresh water,” and to aggravate their problems, illegal settlers are dumping cement inside Palestine wells.

While the world’s population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold.
Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth – coupled with industrialization and urbanization – will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.
People lack drinking water and sanitation.
Already there is more wasted water generated and dispersed today than at any other time in the history of our planet: more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people (Estimation for 2002, by the WHO/UNICEF JMP, 2004). 3900 children die every day from water-borne diseases (WHO 2004). One must know that these figures represent only people with very poor conditions. In reality, these figures should be much higher.
Water resources are becoming scarce
Find your country, and see how many rivers are left to run wild and how many dams were constructed in the last 100 years.
But conservation groups say that the plans for many large dams are based on historical river flow data that are irrelevant in today’s rapidly changing and unpredictable climate.
“Large dams have always been based on the assumption that future stream-flow patterns will mirror those of the past, but this is no longer true,” Rudo Sanyanga, International Rivers’ African program director, said in a statement. National Geographic
Facts and Figures
Sources of Fresh Water
Groundwater – water that infiltrates into the ground through porous materials deeper into the earth. It fills pores and fractures in layers of underground rock called aquifers. Some of this water lies too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
Surface-water runoff – precipitation that does not infiltrate into the ground or return to the atmosphere: streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and reservoirs.
Snow that is 4 inches (10cm) deep contains about the same amount of water as 1/3 inch (1 cm) of rain.
1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water
2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation (2002, UNICEF/WHO JMP 2004)
1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases.
3 900 children die every day from water-borne diseases (WHO 2004)
Daily per capita use of water in residential areas:
– 350 liters in North America and Japan
– 200 liters in Europe
– 10-20 liters in sub-Saharan Africa
Over 260 river basins are shared by two or more countries, mostly without adequate legal or institutional arrangements.
A leak that fills up a coffee cup in 10 minutes will waste over 3,000 gallons of water in a year. That’s 65 glasses of water every day for a year.
A leaky toilet can waste over 22,000 gallons of water in one year; enough to take three baths every day.

Water Cycle | How the Hydrologic Cycle Works, July 13, 2013 by Water Sciece Foundation.

How much fresh water is used in franking?
Water used for hydraulic fracturing is typically fresh water taken from
groundwater and surface water resources. Although there are increasing efforts to use nonpotable water, some of these sources also supply drinking water.
Fracking consumes a massive amount of water. In the United States, the average can run between 1.5 million and 9.7 million gallons of water to frack a single well.

Hydrocarbons in the 21st Century: Green, Clean and Safe, July 17, 2018 by Drilling Matters

How Much Water Does it Take to Produce Your Food?
Water Pollution
A gallon of paint or a quart of motor oil can seep into the earth and pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water.
A spilled gallon of gasoline can pollute 750,000 gallons of water.
World Water Shortage vs. Golf Course Consumption
Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers

Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers, by International Rivers, Nov 19, 2011.

The “Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers,” with Right Livelihood Award Winner Nnimmo Bassey, explores the impacts of climate change and hydropower on the world’s rivers.

Bottle Water Hoax: The Story of Bottled Water, by How Stuff Works Projec.

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day)

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