A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points- point by point
-Policymakers worldwide wield great power over how water sources are managed.
-Use of power will be important as the years go by because the world's demand for freshwater is overtaking its ready supply in many places.
-1/6 people suffer inadequate access to safe freshwater.
-By 2025, freshwater resources of more than half the countries across the globe will undergo stress or shortages.
-Scientists expect water scarcity to become more common because the world's population is rising and many people are getting richer and because global climate change is exacerbatering aridity and reducing supply in many regions
-Water sources threatened by faulty waste disposal, industrial pollutants, fertilizer runoff, and coastal influxes of saltwater into aquifers as groundwater is depleted.
-Lack of water leads to starvation, disease, political instability and armed conflict.
-Solving water problems requires understanding how much freshwater each person requires
-The knowledge of the factors that impede supply and increase demand in different parts of the world
-Each person requires 1,000 cubic meters of water per year
-Distribution of global water resources varies widely
-Providing water is challenging in drier, underdeveloped and developing nations with large populations
-Levels of underground aquifers are falling
-Shortages of freshwater are growing more common in developed countries
-Droughts have left many cities and towns in the northern part of Georgia and the Southwest scrambling for water
-The ability to pay for water plays a major role for availability of water
-Struggle for freshwater has contributed to civil and military disputes in the area
-Demand for water varies from places to place
-Demand rise with population size and growth rate. Tends to go up with income level
-If the income of poor nations continue to climb to levels of middle-income countries, would greatly intensify the pressures on water supply
-Reasonable pricing policies promote greater conservation by domestic and industrial users are worth adopting
-Setting high prices can spur the adoption of measures such as systematic reuse of used water
-Major consequence of pricing water too low is that insufficient funds are generated for future development and preventive upkeep
-Cost of repairing and modernizing the water infrastructures of the U.S and Canada to reduce losses and ensure continued operation will be high
-When the goal is to save water, another key strategy should be to focus on the largest consumers
-Conserving irrigation flows would conserve dramatically more freshwater
-We need meet world food requirements, farmers will need a substantial rise in irrigation water supplies
-10% rise in irrigation efficiency would free up more water than is evaporated off by all other users
-Channeling water that is eventually intended for crop fields to underground storage in nongrowing season
-A solution is to hold surface water behind dams until the growing season
-Underground storage would limit evaporation loss
-Use of drip-irrigation systems minimize consumption by allowing water to seep in slowly either from the soil surface or directly into the root zone
-Keeping the demand for irrigation water in arid areas down while still meeting the world's food requirements can be supported by supplying virtual water.
-Virtual water relates to the amount of water expended in producing food or commercial goods.
-Products are exported to a dry region, then that area will not have to use its own water to create them.
-Items represent a transfer of water to the recipient locale and supply them with so-called virtual water.
-Virtual water concept and expanded trade have also led to resolution of many international disputes caused by water scarcity.
-Imports of virtual water have reduced chance of water conflict
-Money for existing technologies for conserving water, maintaining and replacing infrastructure, and constructing sanitation systems.
-Crucial for wealthy nations to provide funds to assist effort for getting more water in poor countries.
-We must accelerate the adoption of existing techniques to conserve and enhance water supply.
-we can succeed if we start right away and stick to it
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
This article talks about the many thing we can do to reduce water use and use it more wisely. Many policymakers control what happens to our water but implementing these solutions into how we use our water is a great way to solve the problem of water shortage. The article also talks about how due to population increase the food demand is increasing therefore farmers are going to need more irrigation water in order to meet these requirements. One solution to this so we don't waste the water used in irrigation would be conserving it. Plugging up leaks, banking water underground, and modifying crops to withstand less moisture would help use less irrigation water. We often don't reuse water we used to bathe, or take showers, or used in toilets, therefore if used advanced desalination technology these other wise known as unusable water will be drinkable. We can keep the water and reuse it constantly without introducing more water. The problem is we often take water from foreign nations that need it. Another solution would be to grow crops in arid nation eliminating the need to get more water for the crops.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views
After reading this article there is a lot we can do to conserve water. There are multiple methods to conserve water but the problem is that policymakers are often blind to the realities and whats really happening to protect there money. If we could put many suggested solution into action we could conserve much of our water and eliminate the need to transport water from foreign countries. We also need to educate the public about this problem to make this process go by quicker since many often believe there is not a problem with the amount of water we use. Conserving water will help us move towards only using the water we really need then countries that really need water have access to it.
So What?
We are taking water from foreign countries, do we take into consideration whats happening to them
Says Who?
Peter Rogers
What if...?
What if we conserved water from the beginning?
What does this remind me of?
This reminds me of fracking since in both big corperations are doing whatever they can to make money and protect it
-Policymakers worldwide wield great power over how water sources are managed.
-Use of power will be important as the years go by because the world's demand for freshwater is overtaking its ready supply in many places.
-1/6 people suffer inadequate access to safe freshwater.
-By 2025, freshwater resources of more than half the countries across the globe will undergo stress or shortages.
-Scientists expect water scarcity to become more common because the world's population is rising and many people are getting richer and because global climate change is exacerbatering aridity and reducing supply in many regions
-Water sources threatened by faulty waste disposal, industrial pollutants, fertilizer runoff, and coastal influxes of saltwater into aquifers as groundwater is depleted.
-Lack of water leads to starvation, disease, political instability and armed conflict.
-Solving water problems requires understanding how much freshwater each person requires
-The knowledge of the factors that impede supply and increase demand in different parts of the world
-Each person requires 1,000 cubic meters of water per year
-Distribution of global water resources varies widely
-Providing water is challenging in drier, underdeveloped and developing nations with large populations
-Levels of underground aquifers are falling
-Shortages of freshwater are growing more common in developed countries
-Droughts have left many cities and towns in the northern part of Georgia and the Southwest scrambling for water
-The ability to pay for water plays a major role for availability of water
-Struggle for freshwater has contributed to civil and military disputes in the area
-Demand for water varies from places to place
-Demand rise with population size and growth rate. Tends to go up with income level
-If the income of poor nations continue to climb to levels of middle-income countries, would greatly intensify the pressures on water supply
-Reasonable pricing policies promote greater conservation by domestic and industrial users are worth adopting
-Setting high prices can spur the adoption of measures such as systematic reuse of used water
-Major consequence of pricing water too low is that insufficient funds are generated for future development and preventive upkeep
-Cost of repairing and modernizing the water infrastructures of the U.S and Canada to reduce losses and ensure continued operation will be high
-When the goal is to save water, another key strategy should be to focus on the largest consumers
-Conserving irrigation flows would conserve dramatically more freshwater
-We need meet world food requirements, farmers will need a substantial rise in irrigation water supplies
-10% rise in irrigation efficiency would free up more water than is evaporated off by all other users
-Channeling water that is eventually intended for crop fields to underground storage in nongrowing season
-A solution is to hold surface water behind dams until the growing season
-Underground storage would limit evaporation loss
-Use of drip-irrigation systems minimize consumption by allowing water to seep in slowly either from the soil surface or directly into the root zone
-Keeping the demand for irrigation water in arid areas down while still meeting the world's food requirements can be supported by supplying virtual water.
-Virtual water relates to the amount of water expended in producing food or commercial goods.
-Products are exported to a dry region, then that area will not have to use its own water to create them.
-Items represent a transfer of water to the recipient locale and supply them with so-called virtual water.
-Virtual water concept and expanded trade have also led to resolution of many international disputes caused by water scarcity.
-Imports of virtual water have reduced chance of water conflict
-Money for existing technologies for conserving water, maintaining and replacing infrastructure, and constructing sanitation systems.
-Crucial for wealthy nations to provide funds to assist effort for getting more water in poor countries.
-We must accelerate the adoption of existing techniques to conserve and enhance water supply.
-we can succeed if we start right away and stick to it
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
This article talks about the many thing we can do to reduce water use and use it more wisely. Many policymakers control what happens to our water but implementing these solutions into how we use our water is a great way to solve the problem of water shortage. The article also talks about how due to population increase the food demand is increasing therefore farmers are going to need more irrigation water in order to meet these requirements. One solution to this so we don't waste the water used in irrigation would be conserving it. Plugging up leaks, banking water underground, and modifying crops to withstand less moisture would help use less irrigation water. We often don't reuse water we used to bathe, or take showers, or used in toilets, therefore if used advanced desalination technology these other wise known as unusable water will be drinkable. We can keep the water and reuse it constantly without introducing more water. The problem is we often take water from foreign nations that need it. Another solution would be to grow crops in arid nation eliminating the need to get more water for the crops.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views
After reading this article there is a lot we can do to conserve water. There are multiple methods to conserve water but the problem is that policymakers are often blind to the realities and whats really happening to protect there money. If we could put many suggested solution into action we could conserve much of our water and eliminate the need to transport water from foreign countries. We also need to educate the public about this problem to make this process go by quicker since many often believe there is not a problem with the amount of water we use. Conserving water will help us move towards only using the water we really need then countries that really need water have access to it.
So What?
We are taking water from foreign countries, do we take into consideration whats happening to them
Says Who?
Peter Rogers
What if...?
What if we conserved water from the beginning?
What does this remind me of?
This reminds me of fracking since in both big corperations are doing whatever they can to make money and protect it