About Jay-Z's question, how is water scarce?

Question

why does whoever we get water from run out of water
i mean there are still oceans full of it right??

Answer 1

you can't drink water from the ocean because it has salt in it. Which will cause you to dehidrate and die. The drinkable water we have is being poluted every day (rivers and lakes), but all water evaporates and then fallls on the earth as rain, but in alot of places we are getting less and less rain every year.

Answer 2

Water can get very scarce locally. The city of Los Angeles was built in the southern desert of California. As the city grew, the need for water outpaced local supplies, and an aqueduct was built to carry water to the city from the Colorado River. Eventually, demands on this supply by the city and the Imperial Valley, exhausted the supply. It is said that the Colorado no longer flows into the Gulf of Baja.

Areas of the country, and the world, for that matter, go through periods of drought, when the annual precipitation is much less than the climatological average. This again produces localized water shortages. The area recently has been quite large, encompassing 7 or 8 States, and the drought is almost as severe as that in the 1930's.

In the long run, there is no water shortage, but we are not accustomed to long term thinking. Neither are we able to endure long term local shortages. We must either haul water in or move out.

Answer 3

depending on where u live etc the water is from rainfall and snow melting , so if u have very little rainfall or snow your water supplier is not able to treat the water and send it to your home so u can showe r etc , as for the ocean water yes we hav ethe oceans but the salt in the water is unsafe adn plus the bacteria etc in the water is unsafe to consume in large amounts and it can be very costly to seperate the salt or to get it at safe leveles for human consumption , if u live in desrt areas like arizona water supplies can be scarce because of the rainfall etc , so no matter what we should try to conserve one of natures most preciouse resource which is wate r cause with out water , plants animals and humand s will die and with out the water we wont be able to grow our own food etc

Answer 4

I saw on a tv program, that if you take a globe and one drop of water, the one drop of water compared to the size of the globe, is how much (how little) the worlds got to share (for a year I think).

If you've ever been on a cruise ship, you'd know that filtered seawater used for drinking water (yuck !!!), just doesn't cut it.

Well water is clean because all the layers of dirt it travels thought, filters it. --yum

Answer 5

well, let us think a while; It rains enough every day to provide drinking water sufficient for every plant and animal for a month. We have fresh water lakes with enough water in them for a 6 month supply for every animal on earth. We have enough bottled water sufficient for every person on earth for a 2 day supply. We have enough public water supply stored in towers for a 3 month supply for every animal on earth. We have more than enough water in tapped wells for a 6 month supply for every plant and animal on earth.. It has not stopped raining on earth since it started for the first time. In the 60's environmental whackoes forced the breaking of small dams all over the u.s., they forced such stupid regulations on industry that they destroyed america's industrial complex, they nearly destroyed farming and logging , they got democrats in congress to defund VietNam- thereby murdering hundreds of thousands of Cambodians and VietNamese.... Sounds like to me someone asked a lie just to see how many people they could decieve... didn't get you either did he?

Answer 6

Yes, but those oceans have more than just water. Consider all the pollution and the energy required to purify that water.