A Call for a Worldwide Campaign on Water Conservation
If we are to tackle the challenges of future
populations on the planet, we will need to insure adequate water supply. Our
US population is growing, by one person every nine seconds and with this
growth the consumption of fresh water increases. The average person uses
80-100 gallons per day in the US. In Third world countries about 4-8 total
gallons of water per day. I have tested this myself, it is possible to do
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We need to start a World Wide Campaign about
the importance of water by teaching kids the facts and making sure they
understand the needs for these infrastructures in the future. Too many areas
are expanding rapidly in desert regions, without sustainable water
resources, where population explosions move into neighborhoods and put in
lawns. In these areas 40% of the residential water use is expended outside
the home.
These same issues were a major concern of the
ancient Indian cultures who lived on these lands before us. Just like other
Indian Cultures in Central and South America, the indigenous people of
Australian outback, as well as the water ways and canals built by the
Greeks, Romans, Egyptians. Worldwide drought issues will be a problem in the
next two decades with an estimated 2.5 billion people without proper fresh
water supplies. We must launch our world wide campaign now to promote
conservation, proper sewage treatment and empowering peoples to secure and
build facilities to insure they will not be without water as the climate
changes and leaves whole regions of the world without.
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