A quarter of the world's population is in a situation where several dry periods will cause an extreme lack of water, with India being one of the countries facing dehydration. The drought situation in many countries is becoming worse and worse due to frequent dry spells caused by global warming.
"Bankruptcy" in the water supply in 17 countries exposes them to an "extreme water shortage", this is because of an 80% annual excess consumption. This is according to a report from the beginning of August by the "World Water Institute" (WRI's Aqueduct Water ).
According to the authors of the report, a quarter of the world's population is in a situation where several dry periods will cause an extreme lack of water, with India being one of the countries facing dehydration. The drought situation in many countries is becoming worse and worse due to frequent droughts caused by global warming.
According to the director of the institute "the world is facing a water disaster". New data show that most of the thirsty countries are located in the arid regions of North Africa and the Middle East (we are also AR). According to the spokesman of the institute: "The first countries to reach a state of water shortage are Qatar, followed by Lebanon and Israel." India is in 13th place, but a population of 1.3 billion compares its situation to 16 countries where agriculture, industry and cities face "water bankruptcy".
Chennai, the sixth largest city in India, was the last (of the cities) to warn its residents that "there will be no water in the taps" due to a drop in the water level in the reservoirs. A similar "countdown" was held in Cape Town (South Africa) last year and in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2015. According to the authors of the report, there will be more and more "countdowns" towards Day Zero - the day when there will be no water in the taps.
The water supply is threatened by many different factors - climatic changes, poor management, waste and pollution of water sources. Due to the difficulty of measuring and managing a high dependence on the supply of water that originates from groundwater, a problem arises as the decrease in their level is hidden from view. According to the UN geological survey: one third of the fresh water supply comes from groundwater and according to the institute's spokesperson: "There is no understanding and the management of groundwater is tainted by inefficiency."
According to the institute's map, 189 countries are in a state of water scarcity. In addition to the decrease of groundwater and its salinity, the lack is also caused by periods of drought and even due to floods that destroy reservoirs and pollute sources.
The institute's researchers offer ways to alleviate the water shortage:
• Increasing the efficiency and economy of water use in agriculture - growing plants that consume less water and using irrigation methods - drip.
• Investing in "grey water": recycling and improving water for reuse and also encouraging "green water" by using wetlands as water purifiers
• Purification and reuse.
The researchers conclude by stating that:
"Despite the negative data, there is a possibility to solve the water problems for the benefit of the natural environment, the people and the global economy."
After all, it is worth noting our situation: even though more than half of Israel's territory is desert and the desert climate spreads northward, for many years the water sector was managed as if we were in the "Land of a Thousand Lakes". Only in the last few decades did the authorities begin to understand our situation and our place and the approach to the water system changed accordingly. The establishment of desalination plants improved the state of the water system and corrected a deficiency caused by many years of omissions, but there is still much work to be done. It is appropriate to establish (additional) reservoirs for flood water, it is essential to purify and use water sources that have been polluted and salted, it is important to renew infrastructure systems that will allow the absorption of rainwater in urban areas that will enrich the groundwater aquifers. It is appropriate to integrate water recycling and the use of "gray water" into construction plans.
The official figures show "reuse of 70% of the waste water", right? In light of the amount of sewage that flows into the sea and causes pollution, even if the official figures are correct, it is clear that it is not enough.
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In Israel the situation is extremely bad, but no one really cares
1. Israel has drinking water that originates from desalination of water from the Mediterranean Sea. Not long ago we were informed that the owners of these facilities saved tens of millions of shekels by supplying poor quality water to citizens.
2. One facility is not managed by tycoons but by the state, therefore the output is so ridiculous that it is better to sink the facility in the sea
3. In the not-too-distant future when the waters of the Mediterranean Sea will also be at the level of sewage, due to the indifference of the countries that lie on its shores, what level of desalination will there be from this water, and what will its price be?
There are places where the children are the 'pension' of the parents
When the child grows up and starts working, he allocates a portion to the parents and they live on this in their old age
Therefore, those who have many children are actually 'insuring' themselves for old age
What does it mean "we are also AR" ???
Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Bolsonaro, Putin, Erdogan
The Muslims steal millions of liters of water from us by piratically connecting to the pipelines of Mekorot. This thing means that the water pressure of Jewish explorers in the Jordan Valley is zero and in fact they cannot continue to be farmers which means that they cannot exist in the Valley which means that the Jewish settlers in the Valley will disappear and of course Muslims will enter the void who are plotting how to harm our people more. Terrible situation. And the Likud does nothing. Hope that Yamina can sort it out in a way that will be understandable to Muslims.
When all these ecological problems threaten to flood and drown us, Donald Trump came to us at the wrong time.
We have technology to overcome the danger of dehydration.
Much more serious is that there is a lot of tinkering with nuclear technology in the world:
Atomic reactors, submarines, nuclear weapons tests, nuclear powered rocket propulsion experiments.
Why doesn't the world understand that any nuclear leak, for example in the sea, can harm fish and reach our plate
Easily!!!
Further to what was written above me:
There are places in India where the government has stopped supplying water, and the residents buy water from wells that pump it and bring it in trucks. They started pumping from a depth of 4 meters, and today they pump from 10 meters.
In Indian culture, the family (and the number of children) is of great importance, and until they begin to experience existential pressure - they will not begin to change this crooked way of thinking.
Finding solutions to provide them with water - will not cause them to change their way of thinking.
India is in danger of drying out because while they were enforcing the one child law in China they continued to spawn without stopping far beyond the population limit that their resources could support. They can only expect an ecological collapse that will wipe out the population and no one can help them.