why do people say that we are running out of water when people say that there is going to be extra water??????

Answer 1

because we are running out of fresh water. we will have extra salt water

Answer 2

It could mean we are polluting our fresh water sources to the extent that it isn't worth it to purify it.

By the way matter cannot be created or destroyed. If we do "run out of water" I guess scientists could just smash some hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms together.

Answer 3

karbabe,Drinkable water is the problem !

Answer 4

We are running out of fresh water because of increased consumption and pollution. Take a look at the condition of just about every major river in the world, every major aquifer, and most lakes.

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Answer 5

Because different parts of the world are suffering differently.
Austriala has a water shortage because it is below the hole in the o-zone layer, the artics water is melting and are flooding out their coastal cities, and Africa had a huge lake that is quickly decreasing in size.

Answer 6

We have almost no fresh water left on the planet that is drinkable. The bottled water companies are even selling us
`tap water' that hasn't been tested and promoting them as pure spring or mineral water at outragest prices.
I remember going fishing with my Dad back in the 60's when we would take a drink out of any stream that we were fishing in. Try it now.

Answer 7

It is a sad truth that alarmists always get the headlines and the money. If there isn't a crisis, there is no need to throw money at it. That is why crisis creation is so typical. We are obviously not running out of water. There are always difficulties involved with obtaining cheap fresh water but it is an economical and technical problem more than a water shortage. There have always been droughts, even long before mankind and there always will be.

Answer 8

because they haven't a clue.
we will NEVER run out of water.
there are droughts abd floods every year somewhere.
so this year it's dry is SE USA.
next year, they may pray for the rain to stop,
it was dry here in 1988, driest ever.
"it will never rain again" they said
never had a drought since.
2007 was wetter than normal here.

Answer 9

Well, largely speaking, climate change will do just that, overall certain parts of the planet will increase in temperature, but other areas will stay more or less the same.

Other areas which currently may not receive alot of rain may receive more, and other areas will not only receive more but may receive too much, so rainfall will increase, but not necessarily in a way which is optimal for farmers.

What WILL and to some extent already has changed, it the water-flow patterns , where rain falls, for how long, etc.

It will not be the case that we can say in October, 2009, the rains stopped falling in Kansas or Oklahoma, it will just be the case that Kansas and Oklahoma receive slightly less or more rain than they currently do, and overall we can expect slow changes in frost and seasonal "starts" and "stops", so the spring rains of May , may start to occur as snow or cold rain March or April, when it is still too cold to plant.

In the eastern parts of the US, crops have failed consistently for about 7 years in many parts of the Mid-Atlantic, because they receive too much rain early in the season and nothing at all during the later 1/2 of the summer.
Collapse : Jarred Diamond

In other parts of the world, where populations are dependent on rainfall or snowfall upon glaciers, the situation is much more problematic, since nearly all temperate glaciers will be significantly reduced in another 10 years and within another 60 may be gone more or less altogether.

Certain areas like the Himalayas certainly won't disappear, but the river flows from their slopes will certainly change.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0276-4741%28199402%2914%3A1%3C1%3AHWREAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

This is what happened in Australia in the Murray river basin, where rainfall dropped from 20 or so inches per year to 5 or so, they lost an entire forest covering about the area of the Appalachian mountains, due directly to loss of rainfall and increase in temperature.
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/naturaldisasters/

Australia certainly survived and has learned to adapt to these new conditions pretty well, but they did so with conservation measures and government restrictions upon water usage and such. This has helped reduce the footprint, but has caused an increase in taxes and public regulation because desalinization plants and pumping stations and such must be built and operated to service their economic needs, and people are legally responsible for conservation (or not conserving).
http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/individuals/drought_assist.htm
http://agriculture.einnews.com/news/australia-new-zealand-wheat
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2007/2007-05-18-03.asp
Farming as such was going to be suspended in 2007-8 if rains did not return - they did - just enough to not have to suspend farming - this year.

In the US, our government over the last several years, has rather studiously avoided any environmental legislation or discussion of the causes and possible needs for planning for changes in climate, unless some crisis develops, such as stronger storm surges or hurricanes (as happened with the infrastructure failures in the Gulf in 2005) or prolonged drought conditions (in the Western 1/2 and Southeastern States), during these crises the government is compelled to react, and sometimes very harshly. The Bush administration in particular has unfortunately been actively hostile towards science and all manner of inquiry which does not agree with their ideological world-views.


For my money however, I'd prefer moderate amounts of planning, preparation and expenditure for conservation and infrastructures which could prolong the rights and standards (not to mention the tax base) of the citizenry, rather than having devastation, and to reduce ourselves to a situation where mercenaries and vigilantism is the norm.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301195.html


Going forward, many of the disturbances we see today have at least some part of their origins in water scarcity. (Sudan, Iraq/Iran, Israel/Palestine, Turkey/Iraq, Afghanistan, India/Pakistan, China/Russia, Mexico/USA all have existing disputes over water rights)

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2002/02/26/blood/
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/581A68F8-D48F-449B-9616-24ED63D7013E.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mx.html

Answer 10

We need fresh water for drinking adn agriculture. Glaciers hold 68.7% of the world's fresh water. As those melt, and as annual snowfall declines, the water supply for billions of people will be threatened.

We've inhabited areas and built cities and our agricultural regions around water supplies that may not be present in the near future.

"Freshwater availability and use, as well as the conservation of aquatic resources, are key to human well-being. The quantity and quality of surface- and groundwater resources, and life-supporting ecosystem services are being jeopardized by the impacts of population growth, rural to urban migration, and rising wealth and resource consumption, as well as by climate change. If present trends continue, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity by 2025, and two thirds of the world population could be subject to water stress."

Answer 11

If one thing is for sure, we are DEFINETELY not running out of SALT water. Because of man, pollution of all sorts have been put into the air. Thus causing the O-ZONE layer to get thinner and thinner. The O-ZONE layer is what was protecting Earth from sunlight's direct hit, which would be EXTREMELY hot. Now that it is thinner, more and more is let in, especially on the North Pole. This and Antarctica have been melting more rapidly than scientists predicted would happen in 10-20 years. This will rise the ocean level VERY high. For Example: The Statue of Liberty will all be underwater except the torch. Florida will be underwater.
About of fourth of California will be underwater. Massachusetts will have a good portion underwater.

However, some places may be experiencing difficulty supplying enough fresh water for its residents.

we have to stop this!!