marco brambilla's List: Water Crisis

• Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth - coupled with industrialization and urbanization - will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.
• more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water,

• water to produce food for human consumption, industrial processes and all the other uses is becoming scarce.  

   

    
• It is all the more critical that increased water use by humans does not only reduce the amount of water available for industrial and agricultural development but has a profound effect on aquatic ecosystems and their dependent species.
• Over 260 river basins are shared by two or more countries.
• correcting measures still can be taken to avoid the crisis

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• there is no water crisis but steps must be taken to avoid one in the future.
• the freshwater used to sustain humans is only 3% of the total amount of water on Earth
• • Inadequate access to safe drinking water for about 884 million people^[9]
   
  • Inadequate access to water for sanitation and waste disposal for 2.5 billion people
• Overuse and pollution of water resources harming biodiversity
• Waterborne diseases and the absence of sanitary domestic water are one of the leading causes of death worldwide.

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• 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water
• 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation
• Close to half of all people in developing countries suffer at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits
• 400 million children (1 in 5 from the developing world) have no access to safe water. 1.4 million children will die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water
• 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water
• one third of the world’s population is living in either water-scarce, or water-short areas.
• Intermediary water sellers in Tanzania, for example, found business to be booming, because there were so many poor people unable to afford the privatized service and turned to them instead

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