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These sites have articles and facts about the world water problems
Updated on Dec 09, 10
Created on Dec 09, 10
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Raine Gauthier's List: 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
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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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
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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