Copyright © 2005 SRI International The Water Crisis A lack of clean water results in poverty, disease and death.

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Copyright © 2005 SRI International The Water Crisis A lack of clean water results in poverty, disease and death

2 Source: Question Have You Ever Gotten Sick from Drinking Impure Water? Do You Know Someone Who Has?

3 Clean Water is Necessary for Life Drinking Bathing Agriculture Sanitation Sources:

4 World Water Gap Despite the apparent abundance of clean water in the US and most of the developed world, more than 20% of the Earth’s population lacks clean, safe drinking water. Sources:

5 How is the World’s Water Distributed? I Less than 3% of Earth’s water is fresh water The vast majority (97%) is undrinkable salt water in the oceans Source:

6 How is Water Distributed? II Of the fresh water, most is in ice caps and glaciers, and some is in ground water Less than 1% is in more easily accessible surface water (lakes, swamps, rivers, etc.) Source:

7 How is Water Distributed? III Most of the surface water is in lakes; a bit is in swamps and rivers The point: very little water is easily available for drinking Source:

8 Source: Adapted from Water is Scarce in Some Regions 2.4 billion people live in highly water-stressed areas Current Water Scarcity: 2006

9 No Single Cause for the Water Crisis Many factors – Climate and geography – Lack of water systems and infrastructure – Inadequate sanitation 2.6 billion people (40% of the world’s population) lack access to sanitation systems that separate sewage from drinking water Inadequate sanitation and no access to clean water have been highly correlated with disease

10 Pollution is a Big Problem Too Types of pollution in fresh water: – Sewage is the most common – Pesticides and fertilizers – Industrial waste dumping – High levels of arsenic and fluoride Sources:

11 Water Scarcity is Projected to Worsen

12 Question Why is the Water Shortage Projected to Worsen?

13 World Population is Increasing

14 Question In What Ways Would an Increasing World Population Affect Water Consumption? Q

15 Where Clean Water Use is Rising

16 Trends in Population and Water Use

17 Question Is There a Relationship Between Poverty and a Lack of Clean Drinkable Water?

18 Countries Differ Widely in Water Usage Average Daily Water Use Per Person ( ) For Selected Countries Source:

19 Countries Differ Widely in Wealth Average Wealth (Purchasing Power Per Person in 2005) For Selected Countries Source:

20 Notice Any Correlations? Source: Average Daily Water User Per Person & Wealth For Selected Countries

21 Many Without Access Live in Poverty People without clean water – Almost two in three people survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day People without sanitation – Of the 2.6 billion people who do not have adequate sanitation, a little more than half live on less than $2 a day

22 Impact of Water Scarcity I Health, education, and economic growth are impacted World Water Forum estimates: – 1.4 billion people lack clean drinking water – 2.3 billion people lack adequate sanitation – 7 million people die yearly from diseases linked to water Source: National Geographic, “The World Water Gap” World Water Forum, The Hague March 17-22, 2000 – Half the world’s rivers and lakes are badly polluted – Shortages could create millions of refugees seeking homes in a location accessible to water

23 Impact of Water Scarcity II World Health Organization estimates: – 80% of all sickness in the world is attributable to unsafe water and sanitation – The leading causes of death in children under 5 are related to unclean water; there are about 5,000 child deaths every day – Without action, as many as 135 million people could die from water-related diseases by 2020 Source:

24 Sources: Impact of Water Scarcity III Carrying water takes time! – Women and children can trek miles every day to retrieve water – This hard manual labor takes time that they might otherwise spend pursuing education or earning additional income Photographer: Chantal Boulanger

25 Children Carrying Water Sources:

26 War for Diminishing Resources? “The next world war will be over water,” says Vice President Ismail Serageldin from the World Bank Sources:

27 How Can We Address the Water Crisis? Use less water – More efficient irrigation, like drip irrigation – Low-flow shower and toilets – Use native plants for crops and landscaping – Eat less meat Find new sources of clean water – Um… Where? On the moon? Treat the undrinkable water that we have – Use reverse osmosis to desalinize salt (ocean) water – Clean polluted water using filters, chemicals, and UV light

28 Using Filters to Clean Water Pebbles, sand, & charcoal filter out large particles Membranes filter out smaller particles It is efficient to use a series of membranes to filter increasingly smaller particles

29 Can Nanotechnology Help? Nanotechnology offers new solutions to filter small particles – Unique properties at the nanoscale mean that membranes can be made to filter by electrical and chemical properties – A huge effort to create better, cheaper nanomembrane filters is currently underway! Professor Eric Hoek at UCLA is patenting a new nanomembrane filter Membranes clean water by filtering out unwanted substances Sources:

30 Questions How Do We Make Undrinkable Water Safe to Drink? How can Nanotechnology Help Provide Solutions to the Water Shortage? Can We Solve Our Global Water Shortage Problems? – Why or Why Not?