According to the world water council there is a global water crisis. How can we resolve this crisis?

Question

Will changing our eating habits help to alleviate the problem? What about population control? Are building desalination plants a practical solution?

Answer 1

The argument for not building de-sal facilities in the US has its roots is 70s economics. Curious to note that in the 80s, we were building huge de-sal plants in Saudi Arabia. Municipal engineers here couldn't get money just to treat waste.

Nowadays, with billion dollar investment firms buying up water, it'd be stupid for a company not to invest in de-sal plants, especially along the SoCal coast. In the 70s around the time of the Clean Water Act, people looked at it and found that the price per gallon of de-sal water was almost double than that of their norm. Coupled with investments just to get this going, they never went for it.

Now, it should be the norm. Give it twenty years. Their only real barrier is coastal land-use laws and waste disposal laws. They got to tap into the water lines too.

As far as waste, what they usually do is pump the waste (salty, mineral condensate) into the deep ocean. The regulations state that they can only pump so much back into the water. In some places, companies might be able to use injection wells to offset the amount they put in the ocean, or put it in several places. They might be able to use the effluent/waste for other things too.

There are so many things to be done, many of them have been researched; it's all a matter of people investing in it. We'll come around. Eventually the public has to realize that a planet with 75 per cent water should not have to go dry.

Answer 2

Clean your plate, there's kids starving in China.

Drink your water, there's kids thirsty in Sudan?

We won't need population control if there truly is a global water crisis. Those without water will simply die.

What we consider non-potable water in this country is a long cool drink elsewhere. But, in a real crisis, reverse osmosis purification units would help. Antibiotics and deworming medication might not be a bad idea. This isn't exactly a new problem. Very few countries have clean water at the turn of the tap 24/7. Droughts and Floods have always happened. The "world water council" knows that. But if there weren't crisis after crisis they wouldn't get paid.

Donate to Church missions, if you want to help. They dig wells and bring medicine to villages all over the world.. The military brings the desalination and reverse osmosis units to major disaster sights. Support your troops.

Answer 3

Many of our environmental problems are rooted in a population explosion, coupled with the western trend of an increasingly high proportion of homes only inhabiting a single person. All this takes energy and water. For example, the amount of concrete used in housing and the transport infrastructure to support it creates a water run off to somewhere else. This literally changes the microclimate of an area. So the rain in built up areas of Yorkshire, for instance, provides a river to somewhere else. Subsequently, Yorkshire Water is struggling to provide good quality water on the scale that it is demanded.

There is currently a multi-disciplinary research project being undertaken at Bradford University to address water sustainability. This includes changing the psychology of our water usage.

However, it could be too little too late. This planet is just too small to sustain the population it has to. Unless we take population growth seriously, any measures taken to alleviate the water crisis would be like sticking a plaster on a very deep wound. It is the interconnectedness of human life with nature that we need to take seriously, rather than the hierarchical and abusive control we have tried to take over it.

Answer 4

Ok I think I have it. Lets have one massive party where we all get drunk as skunks, that way we would not be drinking any water (I know we need water to make beer, just play along) then have the worlds biggest car race on an oval track which we must all still be drinking whilst driving, I don't think it will be too long before a) the population has been thined out b) why this is going on even less water will be used c) it would take a couple of years for this race to conclude during which time trees have grown and wild life returned. after that start a fight in the middle east between, well anyone and ask the brits and amricans to help make a new dictator for african countrys which would result in a civil war then after ten years or so, wahay less of everything.

Answer 5

well if we can control the population this would be the best remedy to global crises not only on water problem but in almost all aspects i.e foods shortage, pollutions, diseases, poverty.... desalination plants are too costly to build and operate they demand lot of electricity to power them if all countries in the whole world will adopt this technology it will speed up the depletion of fossil fuel thus it will accelerate global warming this will lead to another problem much worse than the water crises

Answer 6

Simplest solution is switching to a seamless, synergistic, multimodal energy strategy that focuses on water electrolysis using renewables, hydrogen andd fuel cells, which recombine H2 and O2, giving us back energy and the purest water.

Answer 7

Ok.

Water is basically 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. That's why they call it H20.

Why not create a reactor that will combine this two elements together (instead of creating a hydrogen bomb).

We will not experience global OXYGEN crisis if we just plant more trees.

Desalination is ok but we are only converting an existing water into a dringking water. we should create water instead of transforming the existing one.

Answer 8

a desalination plant is a gud idea but best and most imp of them all is to stop wasting water start conserving esp while showering shaving washing clothes etc

Answer 9

well how about for a starter all these Water company's take action against burst pipes that leak's hundreds of gallons of water, then tell us we are wasting water, they should try looking a little closer to home, before imposing water bans and meters on us.

Answer 10

First we have to kill all ppl wasting water & peeing in pools!
Then we must ban all oil rigs from having toilet paper in their bathrooms & no soap or shampoo either!
Heck!Let's just say,"No more doing anything on the water!"
Baby,God will not let anything happen to this earth that He does not want to!Believe me,we will all be gone before Mother Earth will!