B2 – Upper Intermediate
Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.
Watch the video to know more why the taps run dry.
Discussion Questions:
- Is there/Has there ever been water crisis in your region / country?
- Why are there severe water shortages around the world?
- What are the causes of water scarcity?
- What are some solutions to global water crisis?
4 replies on “Water Scarcity”
1. Is there/Has there ever been water crisis in your region / country?
Nowadays we can say that there are no serious problems with water in my country if we compare with other regions on the planet even taking into account that some areas are extremely dry like some provinces in the south. Nevertheless there are some run water cuts in summer in some towns in the south for some hours and his places needed to be stuck up.
2. Why are there severe water shortages around the world?
So many reasons. Here are some:
– The increase of the population and not to prepare the facilities according their needs.
– Bad management of the current water resources.
3. What are the causes of water scarcity?
I think there is no water scarcity. There is a bad use and bad planning of the water according our needs.
4. What are some solutions to global water crisis?
– For countries without good facilities it would be needed to design a good plan of water resources according the population needs (current and futures) that includes to develop an hydrological plan with swamps, for instance, connecting rivers, etc, always considering the impact on the environment.
– In manufacturing industries, classify those processes that are intensive in water consumption and investigate how these processes can be more effective. In this field it should be considered agriculture as well.
– And also recycling
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Is there/Has there ever been water crisis in your region / country?
In the last decade there wasn’t any water crisis in my region, but I know that in southern regions often suffer from water shortage. When this happens, government starts a procedure to divert water wherever it may be needed.
Why are there severe water shortages around the world?
I guess causes could be a mixture of diverse factors, but the most important of them is the climate change because the higher temperature of the planet, the more deserted areas and, therefore, less water to share.
What are the causes of water scarcity?
As the video stated, as population grows and critical resource allocation becomes more and more unbalanced in certain parts of the globe, this scenario would lead into armed conflicts as the main cause of it.
What are some solutions to global water crisis?
Along the history of mankind it is well-known that people is gathered around sources of freshwater. Unfortunately, if rivers get dry, people would have to migrate to surrounding areas that still may have water. Governments should reinforce these areas in order to support such population increase if it happens. Moreover, we all should aid to
mitigate climate change by changing our consumption habits. Nonetheless, whenever and wherever resources are exhausted, it’s really difficult to revert that situation because at that point the only measure to take is to avoid further damage.
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