Essay On Global Water Shortage

The threat of global water shortage is real

With the development of the economic, the usage of water resource shows an ascendant tendency. Since some reasons, the water resource becoming more rare. The world is facing with the threat of water shortage.

The water on the earth is abundant that seventy one percent of the surface area is covered with water. However, actually ninety seven point five is salt water. Because of the salt and bitter reasons, the brine is not be able to drinking, irrigation or even for industrial. The other three percent of them is fresh water and in this three percent fresh water, nearly seventy percent of total quantity are frozen, the rest are difficult for human exploit because most of them are inside of soiled moisture or deep groundwater. As for the water resource which can be used by human are rivers, lakes, reservoirs and shallow groundwater is only zero point two. Not only that, the distribution of water resource is not uniformity.

In the picture of world water distribution, the middle of Africa, Russia, South America, etc...are with abundant

There are approximately sixty five percent of water resources in the world are concentrated in nearly 10 countries. However, the account foe forty percent of the whole population in the world in eighty countries are in the Latin America and North America. But in Africa, Asia, and Europe, these areas are with lower water source, especially the Middle East. This is a district which is in water shortage. The main water source of Middle East’s is the Jordan River which is run through the Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. There are few other sources of water that can be replaces so that the water shortage problem is serous. The water shortage even cause Middle East war in 1967 years that Arabia alliance has changed the way of Jordan River in order to far away from