Flower Food (Water Duh!)

“In addition, there is a mismatch between where water is located and where people live, a problem that is especially serious in developing countries.” (Robertson, 2014.)

Little boy drinking water from local pond or lake. (http://blogs.ft.com/photo-diary/tag/poverty/page/2/)

Being an individual living in a country that does not need to worry about where their next drink of water is coming from and whether on it will be cleaned or tainted water has its perks. The only problem is that we do not think about other living in developing countries, and all the problems they must face with if their water is clean enough to drink, how do they filter the dirty water to make clean water and numerous other things. Some countries in Africa and some city-states in India have a very high poverty rate in which numerous people go every day without clean water, and risk their health because the only thing they have to drink is dirty water. As a community of people who share the Earth we should find more ways that are efficient to provide water to everyone all over the world.

 

“Humans in the industrialized world use huge quantities of water to support our lifestyle of a meat-rich diet and plentiful consumer goods.” (Robertson, 2014.)

An ecosystem that is surrounded and benefits from its water source. (http://www.wallpaperhd.pk/amazon-rainforest-wallpaper/)

If we continue to use our lands resources such as water the aquifers will continue to deplete causing land to slow sink beneath the ocean as well as harming environments, which are the homes to numerous types of vegetation and animal life. Once all the animals and vegetation start disappearing the cycles of each environment slowly start to disintegrate into nothing. The whole area will slowly start to fall apart causing everything around it; areas that were not even heavily affected by water to slowly fall apart. We need to make sure that our water footprint just like our carbon footprint is not so large that it causes massive changes in the ecosystem, which cause our world to slowly die.

 

“When all the spaces in the lower soil layers are filled with water, the soil is saturated; in this zone of saturation is called groundwater, and the top of this zone is called the water table.” (Robertson, 2014.)

An easy to understand diagram of a water table. (http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgw.html)

Water tables are important for our aquifers to help make sure that the water in the area is enough to support the ecosystem that it thrives in. Also because we do get our clean drinking water from aquifers all around the world, which can technically be considered as nonrenewable resources, which are sources that can not be replenished. Our water tables depleting would cause the same chain reaction as our aquifers depleting in size and then later disappearing. We should find new and inventive ways to be able produce water from thin air just like how people do when they are stuck in the desert. Overall we need to just make sure we conserve the water in our respective areas better so that we have continuous resources from the Earth to help sustain our future generations.