By the year 2050, some 4 billion people (that’s over half of the entire world’s population) will be facing severe water shortages. In the United States, people living in Southwestern states like Arizona could be facing severe freshwater shortages even sooner — by 2025.
This is not a far-fetched scenario from a science fiction movie, as it may sound. Instead, this information comes from NASA, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies worldwide. And when you consider the facts, it’s not hard to understand why there’s a problem:
- The world’s population tripled in the 20th century, and is expected to increase by another 40-50 percent in the next 50 years.
- Meanwhile, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold.
- There isn’t any more fresh water in the world today than there was 1 million years ago.
- Water cannot be replaced (such as alternative fuel sources can replace petroleum).
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