Persuasive Water Crisis Essay

The water crisis in the world today is leaving over 650 million people without clean drinking water, 2.4 billion people don’t have access to proper sanitation and around 315,000 children die from water caused diseases every year. That’s almost 900 children per day. One of the solutions to help solve this water crisis is to use desalinated water. Desalinated water is when the salt water gets all of the salt taken out of it to make it clean and drinkable. There are many advantages to using desalinated water. Some of these are that there is a massive amount of salt water in the world, the water turns out a lot cleaner than normal fresh water and it is changing the world’s water crisis. It is for these reasons that the use of desalinated water should continue to help solve Australia’s water crisis.
Desalination is already happening in many counties including China, Japan, Spain, Italy and Australia. In Australia, many towns and cities are already using desalinated water. Even if all the world’s water was produced through desalination there would be an almost inexhaustible supply. Out of all the water in the world, 97.5% of that is salt water and only 2.5% is fresh water. Less than 15 of the fresh water accessible. That’s why desalination would help to solve the water crisis because we have so much salt water. Humans can’t drink salt water. That’s why we need desalination plants to get rid of the salt so we can drink the water. Desalination is a great idea to help solve Australia’s water