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Raine Gauthier's List: World Water Crisis
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Intro sites
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Dec 07, 10
Has a lot of facts and quotations from organizations such as the United Nations.It is on globalissues.org which is a good, trustworthy website
1- This website shows that water really is a global issue
2- Millions of people lack safe water, and it doesn't have to be that way, be they are in such a state of poverty that they can not help themselves-
“If you live in a slum in Manila, you pay more for your water than people living in London.
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1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water
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Dec 07, 10
Tells different water crisises and ways to improve them. Found on the WorldWaterCouncil.org so the information is correct and recent.
1- This site has a lot of information and tells facts and statistics such as how more than one out of six people lack clean water
2- Is on a website dedicated to water and making people see how we need to start doing something about it-
While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %.
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more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people
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Articles
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Dec 08, 10
Has a lot of facts and shows how serious the problems regarding water our planet is facing and will continue to face. about.com has trustworthy information
1- Tells what different groups have to say about conserving water resources.
2- We can not do anything about to help a problem until we realize how serious it is. Our water supply is going down-
95 percent of the world’s cities still dump raw sewage into their water supplies.
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Researchers found a six-fold increase in water use for only a two-fold increase in population size in the United States since 1900.
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Dec 08, 10
This is a good article because it comes from the world bank website, which has all the correct and recent information. It is a good source
1- Think about how many people are in canada (around 33 million) and then think about how in Latin America, roughly 76 million have lack of safe water.
2- This article makes us see relative information-
In Latin America alone, about 15 percent of the population—roughly 76 million people—lack safe water
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Dec 08, 10
This article gets us to realize just how many people around the world are greatly effected and struggling with world water problems. \n1-Mostly the statistics are the same as other articles, but it is trustworthy since the website is Water.org. It shows us how easily we can give somebody a lifetime of water supply, and save their life.<br/>2- We think that there is a lot of water on the planet, but this article makes us realize the reality is that only 2.53 percent of that water is fresh, and lots of it is in glaciers and snow.
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Yet today, nearly one billion people – about one in eight – lack access to clean water. More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet.
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Only 2.53 percent of earth’s water is fresh, and some two-thirds of that is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow cover.
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Dec 08, 10
Economist.com seems like a good creditable website that is upping awareness about water
1-This site shows the water problems in different countries in the world and tells how water effects them all. Also shows some good statistics.
2- Seeing how all countries are in a big mess with water, and that even the Governor of California declared a state of emergency shows how critical this is-
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California declared a state of emergency.
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Brazil and South Africa, which depend on hydroelectric power, have suffered repeated brownouts because there is not enough water to drive the turbines properly.
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Dec 08, 10
This article is about tap water pollution.
1- It shows the effects and issues with it, and how we should filter our water (yet that only works for developed countries like Canada)
2- Shows us that although it seems like US and Canada have clean water, it won't stay that way, and we are in just as much trouble-
As the iron pipes corrode, clean water flowing through them becomes contaminated with rust.
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There are 170,000 public water distribution systems at work nationwide, and municipalities spend more than $50 million each year to supply clean drinking water
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Dec 08, 10
This article shows some good stats about how water pollution effects our world. Seems like a legit website for articles.
1- Seeing numbers and comparing them to how many people in the world helps us see how we need to do something to save our water before it is too late
2- People say that the next big war we have will be over water, and I think that is true, and we need to do something to save our water before the little amount we have is unusable. Almost half of US water is already contaminated, and it is much worse in developing countries-
According to official classification, 41.3% of the United States’ water is polluted.
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70% of Chinese lakes and rivers are polluted, not to mention 90% of their groundwater
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Statistics
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Dec 09, 10
this website links you to many different statistics about water. It shows the different categories of our water crisis.
1- This site has different groups of statistics to show the different kinds of many problems our world has with water
2- It has useful information and educates people by showing them how much water we use and is left and things like that-
Water Use
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Water Resources
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Dec 09, 10
This is an internetional website about water, and has many statistics that show the horrible crisis we are facing.
1- It tells where they got these stats from, and they are all creditable sources, such as the World Health Organization.
2-It shows how water is the most critical thing on the planet, and more people are dying from it than AIDS. It also shows how easily we can help and that there are organizations just for water.-
2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)
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4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds
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Dec 09, 10
This website is creditable since it is the water project, which is
1- helping to bring awareness about the problems our planet is facing with water. <br/>2-These statistics shows how important water is to us, and how even though there is a lot of water on the planet, we are running out of water that we can actually use, and no one can live without water.-
In developing countries, about 80% of illnesses are linked to poor water and sanitation conditions
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1 out of every 4 deaths under the age of 5 worldwide is due to a water-related disease.
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Images
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Dec 09, 10
This is a picture of mining pollution
1- It shows how things like mining and building are effecting our water
2- Gets us to really see how what we do is turning our water unsanitary, and see that we can't use water that is contaminated like that-
Sludge flowing from a pipe at a copper mine. Photographed in Chile.
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Dec 09, 10
This is a picture of an outflow pipe pumping a mixture of hot water, sand, and residual crude oil into a tailings settling pond in Alberta, Canada.
1- When you look at this picture, you see how all our waste is going to cause critical problems
2- makes you think twice about not being careful and dumping waste into our water, since we need water to survive and if we don't stop polluting it we will run out.-
Tailings outflow pipe pumping a mixture of hot water, sand, and residual crude oil into a tailings settling pond
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Alberta, Canada.
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Dec 09, 10
Image of a polluted river in a Malaysian slum
1- People all over the world live in places like this. We know that water is a very critical thing, but when you live in a place with fresh water like canada, you don't always think about how lucky we are
2- When you see with your own eyes the water that people have to live off of, it really sets in. The people in this slum are not healthy, and can't survive off of water that polluted and unsanitary-
Polluted river running through a slum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Dec 09, 10
Has four pictures of what water looks like in different countries
1- millions of people have died because of lack of clean water and it is the biggest problem our world has. Seeing this pictures get this to really sink in
2- The people living in areas like these will never have a healthy life, and many will die because of water borne diseases.-
image of hundreds of hoses providing drinking water to residents of a housing block in Jakarta.
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A boy swims in the murky waters of Manila Bay March 21, 2010.
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Video
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Dec 08, 10
This video is made by a non-profit organization called GLOBALWATER.
1-They tell us about the serious problem our world has and tries to get us to understand just how serious it is, and this organization not only gets awareness but tries to help
2- Organizations like this one exist to help this problem, which is obviously very serious or they wouldn't exist. -
Dec 08, 10
This is a documentary that educates us about world water issues. It is seemingly the most popular documentary about the water crisis. This site has the whole film in an 8 part playlist from youtube.
1- Watching a documentary gets the information to sink in better than an article or image
2- This is a popular, well done documentary which shows lives of people lacking safe water and why we need to deal with this problem
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