More droughts were hitting China recently and no drinking water for 15 millions people and millions live stocks in southwest and worst in Chongquin area where water dropped more than 60m under wells. What's going on?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20070226-13174600-bc-china-drought.xml
2007-03-28 18:43:38 · 5 answers · asked by toodd 4 in Environment
The lack of drinking water is brought upon by three major factors. One China environmental protection agency is corrupt, as a effect China has most of the worlds most polluted rivers and when it comes from toxic chemicals, hands down it has the worse. There are many rivers so polluted by industry they are unusable.
Next is the fact the population expanded at such an enormous rate. The surface water was so polluted they started using huge amounts of ground water. They did this at faster then the recharge rate causing the water table to be over drawn and drop.
Lastly is a Global warming problem. Climates are changing, weather it is human caused or not. That area is being hit by may droughts one after another. If the other two factors were not their the people could survive it without a major problem, but all together they compound and can have deadly consequences.
2007-03-29 03:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Cap10 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The erratic weather patterns that is global warming. The shortages of water are happening all over the world because people use up the water in the aquifers and the aquifers collapse before enough rain comes through to replenish the supply. Once they are collapsed water has no where to go and that creates floods which more people actually drown in deserts because of this.
2007-03-29 02:23:30 · answer #2 · answered by Vivianna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It surely is ! While I was looking at the map showing distribution of rain throughout the globe, I noticed there are
many places on the planet, where they have up to 50% more rain than just a decade ago, on the other hand, there are places, such as west Africa coast, where rainfall has decreased as much as 50%...Now, we are talking about global redistribution of water supply rather than lack of it and yes, of course it's the consequence of global warming and climate changes that come with it ( global change of direction of air flows and ocean streams as well ).
2007-03-29 01:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by javornik1270 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More & MORE people & livestock & farms- all drinking from the SAME source...-You don't NEED global warming for THAT to be a recipe for disaster. And if WE keep it up, that's what WE have to look forward to in THIS Country- in the no so distant future. Throw Global Warming into the "mix", and you can check the movie listings for the droughts coming to a neighborhood near YOU... :)
2007-03-29 01:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not "human induced" global warming.
Go back through your records and you'll see it's cyclical.
Of couse, if you had a monsoon this year with flooding, they'd say that's caused by "human made" global warming, too.
2007-03-29 01:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋