Water shortage may be next cause of world war While much attention and debate have been correctly focused on the impending planet-wide oil shortage‚ a far greater calamity awaits us as the reality of the looming global water crisis becomes more apparent. It is not unreasonable to wonder whether the next world war will be fought over oil or water. No resource on Earth is more precious than water. While ongoing events draw our attention to oil‚ we ignore what will become the most serious resource
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Environmental Topic: Not Drinking Bottled Water Water a very important part of our daily lives. We use it for many things but most importantly we drink it. So want it flavor‚ some want it cold others want it from the bottle some don ’t care is long is they get six cups a day. What it comes down to is where we get it from. Do you buy it at a store or do you just use the tap at home. Some reasons why you should buy it are convenience and safety. Tap has it ’s positives as well like it is
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Water is a very important part of our lives. We use it for nearly everything – drinking‚ food preparation‚ laundry‚ dishes‚ hygiene‚ etc. We swim in it‚ boat in it‚ and play in it. In fact‚ 70% of our world is covered in water. However‚ 97% of that water is saltwater and we are unable to drink it‚ leaving only three percent of the planet’s water drinkable. But two percent of the world’s freshwater is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. Only one percent of this freshwater can be used and consumed. Therefore
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like India over burdened of population more than 50% of which is too poor to avail basic needs of day to day life‚ for them hygiene is an unimportant issue‚ hence sanitation is also a luxury. In India 72.2% population live in villages where the awareness of sanitation is much lower than the urban areas. It was only in the early eighties‚ with the thrust of the International Water and Sanitation Decade‚ that India’s first nationwide programme for rural sanitation‚ the Central Rural Sanitation
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WWII: The Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb ******* ****** North Carolina State University Author Note This paper was prepared on XX/XX/XXXX for HI 350 taught by Professor Caddell. WWII: The Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb On the morning of July 16th‚ 1945 the first successful detonation of an atomic bomb was recorded at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The explosion from the blast yielded more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT and could be seen at
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WATER RESOURCES Water is an essential element to our everyday existence. Its role is vital in the sustenance of all life forms‚ as well as in agricultural‚ industrial‚ households‚ recreational and environmental activities. As population continues to rise‚ so does the demand for fresh water too. Water is a major factor shaping the natural environment. It has a long-term influence on the vegetation‚ fauna‚ and shape of the landscape and on various ecosystems. 1‚830 SQ KILOMETERS OF PHILIPPINE
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WATER AS OUR NATURAL RESOURSE There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth. Less than 3 % of all this water is fresh water and of that amount‚ more than two-thirds is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. With so much water around it seems like there is enough to see us through for millions of years. But did you know that even water‚ which seems to be in abundance‚ might one day become scarce? Each time you throw something as garbage‚ think of where it will finally end up. Whether
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Global Fresh Water Shortage Fresh water shortage is a global issue. There are more than one hundred countries face different levels of fresh water shortage‚ and thirty years later there will be 28 to 33 hundred billion people have shortages of water. People lived in fresh water shortage countries cannot even have water to keep them alive. Because of the fresh water shortage‚ people lived near the southern Sahara desert abandoned farmland‚ and 200‚000 people died from that. Africa‚ Asia‚ North American
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Sara Knigge The Color of Water Essay Racial Identity The Color of Water by James McBride was a story about a young boy trying to figure out his racial identity but his mother would not talk about her past or what race she was. All James knew was that she was white living in a black power neighborhood and that fact terrified him. He thought that to grow up he had to know his racial identity but through all the trouble and hard times he went through he learned that his race did not matter. It
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Water Shortages Water has been one of our natural resources that we have used throughout time in many different ways. We have developed ways to make it more available and use it to create energy. However‚ because we have made it more available‚ we have developed issues that waste our good clean water‚ take old pipes that have been used to transport water across cities for example. Because they are so old‚ they tend to waste about 7 billion gallons of water every day (CQ Report‚ 2010‚ p.531). And
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