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Interesting Facts

Globally at least 1.8 billion people use a source of drinking water contaminated by fecal matter

(aka. poopy water)

Causes

pollution

agriculture

Water Scarcity impacts more than 40% of the global population

Clean water can can effect education, hunger, health, poverty.

Water pollution comes from many sources

including pesticides and fertilizers that wash

away from farms and many more.Even ground water can get polluted, as many pollutants can leach into under ground aquifers .

Agriculture uses 70% of the world's freshwater,but some 60% of this is wasted due to leaky irrigation systems and many more. This wasteful use of water is out rivers,lakes and underground aquifers. Many countries that produce large amounts of food have reached or are close to reaching their water resource limits.

Types of Water Scarcity

physical scarcity

Physical access to water is limited.The Colorado river basin in the United States is an excellent example of a seemingly abundant source of water being over used and over managed, leading to very serious physical water scarcity downstream

economic scarcity

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Economic water is water that is not clean but people drink it anyway. such as sub-Saharan Africa suffers under the effects of this type of water scarcity.

Water Poverty

Water Poverty is not being able to have access to clean, potable

(drinkable)water ,or not being able to meet someones basic needs

Effects

Works Cited

Health:

poverty:

http://www.eschooltoday.com/global-water-scarcity/threats-to-water-supply.html

http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/water-scarcity

In many people are forced to drink low quality water from flowing streams, many of which are contaminated.There are many water-borne diseases that people die off.

Access to quality water is key to economics prosperity and better living standards.Lack of water means no economic activities will happen and the people will be in constant poverty.

http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/03/22/world-water-day-2017.

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION:

https://thewaterproject.org/water-scarcity/water_scarcity_2

Women are disproportionately affected by the water crisis, as they are often responsible for collecting water.this takes time away from work, school, and caring for family.women and girls spend 6 hours every day collecting water.

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what is water poverty?

By: Myla, Eleanor, Nayeli

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