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World Wide Water Crisis ...
This appeared on Reuters today ...I am so frustrated when will world governments act ...I suppose it will soon be a race to see if we run out of air first or water ...Am I wrong , I always thought our governments represented use and and families ...yet this directly effects EVERY family in the world..I ask one question why arnt they doing anything about it?????
| Quote: | Water crises everywhere, the First World warned to think
August 17, 2006
RICH countries have to drastically change water policies if they are to avoid the water crisis facing poorer nations, the World Wildlife Fund has warned.
In a survey across the industrialised world, it said many cities were already struggling to maintain water supplies as governments talked about conservation but failed to implement their pledges.
"Supporting large-scale industry and growing populations using water at high rates has come close to exhausting the water supplies of some First World cities and is a looming threat for many, if not most, others," the report based on the survey, released yesterday, warned.
It suggested that agriculture in the richer countries should have to pay more for access to water and be held responsible for its efficient use and for managing wastes, such as salt, especially in intensive livestock farming.
The report said water had become a key political issue at local, regional and national levels as climate change and loss of wetlands dramatically reduce supplies.
"At the rhetoric level, it is now generally accepted in the developed world that water must be used more efficiently and that water must be made available again to the environment in sufficient quantity for natural systems to function," the report said. "Many countries also recognise that extensive — and very expensive — repairs are required to reduce some of the damage inflicted on water systems and catchments in the past."
But it added: "Putting the rhetoric into practice in the face of habitual practices and intense lobbying by vested interests has been very difficult."
In Europe, the report said, countries around the Atlantic are suffering from recurring droughts, while in the Mediterranean region, water resources were being depleted by the boom in tourism and irrigated agriculture.
In the US, many areas were using substantially more water than could be naturally replenished. Even in Japan, with its high rainfall, contamination of water supplies had become a serious issue.
The overall picture, the WWF said, would worsen as global warming brought lower rainfall and increased evaporation of water and changed the pattern of snow melting from mountain areas.
The report proposed seven ways to tackle the problem: conserving catchments and wetlands; balancing conservation and consumption; changing attitudes to water; repairing infrastructure; increasing charges to farmers for water use; reducing water contamination; and more study of water systems.
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Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:41 pm
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you must have read my mind.
i was gonna put a thread up about the water problem.
companies like coca cola are theiving water from some poorer countries and getting away with it. 
they are adding to the problem.
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Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:01 pm
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So true many MultiNationals are taking advantage of third world resources...Shell in Africa for Oil and Large Companies who rip down old growth forrests for woodchips ..it is criminal ..sadly the worst though is now having an effect on a precious and life giving force water...Governments need toget their act together
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yes before its too late
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