In the article "Are We Running Out Of Water?" By Brian Richter he talks about how rivers are drying up, how pipes are being built and discussing the fish populations decrease due to many things.
Many people are asking the same question, "Are we running out of water?" Richter states that "Today there is just as much water on the planet as there was when the first signs of life appeared."
Rivers that provides water like the Rio Grande which recently did not flow to the Gulf of Mexico for the first time is causing the government and water companies to dig underground to get water from under Neath of the Earth.
Although this may seem like a good idea, it is not. When people do this it causes giant unfilled holes underground this will cause sinkholes. These sinkholes will pull cities underground and cars.
People believe that we cannot be running out of water because it rains 110,000 billion cubic meters of water and snow a year. But not all of that water is put into human use. About half of it falls into rivers like the Colorado River basin, Great Lakes basin and the Ogallala Aquifer.
More water goes to non-home plants like trees, and in bushes and shrubs. It goes to wild plants that people don’t water.
Water also falls heavy onto seas and rivers all around the world. Without all of this water falling, the fish in the sea would die. The water that is provided to them maintains salt water and fresh water balances.
Only 10% goes to humans use. And we humans use the water for homes, watering crops, drinking washing and more. All of the rain fall doesn’t get to use though. Water also is being evaporated back into the air and then released back onto Earth. This is the water cycle.
So no matter how much water is disappearing due to human overuse, it will never run out unless there is a worst case scenario that the Earth will have a drought.
People believe that we are running out of water so fast because the rain and snow that falls from the sky is not spread all over evenly. In places like rainforests there will be more rain than in a desert in Afghanistan.
The amount of water is not the same for everybody and is not all used on the same things. In that case, not as much water is going to places where people don’t need it as much.
Chinese people are incorporating $62 billion dollars which will be used to build a huge underground pipe from the Yangtze River to water dried out crops and cities in the North.
This will in fact help many people's cities but moving all of that water over miles and miles of land will use a huge amount of electricity. That fee for all that electricity will also cost a great vast of money.
Another problem with doing this is that it will use lots of water that fish live in causing the fish population to plummet downhill causing more problems. Building pipes underground taking the fresh water will eventually be all use up and when these rivers are drying out, the food resources will no longer be so easily available.
People all around the world do not have to complain while not doing anything. Actions speak louder than words. People everywhere need to cut down on wasting water. Every drop helps. If not as many people waste water all the rumors about how there "isn't enough rumors" will go down and there will be even more water to spare.
