Scarcity In Africa

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The advertisement’s word “As a matter of fact, the water you drink does make a difference.” For us maybe we don’t feel very strong because we don’t find the water are reducing and everyday we also use the water and don’t consider if we don’t have water. However, in African has an acute shortage of water in 14 different countries, and the recent 25 years there will be 12 countries will appear the situation of severe water shortages. According to the statistics in the rural Africa, every household of the average consumption of water daily only have 40-50 liters, while American households in water up to 700liters a day. In southern Africa, the water shortage situation is more serious, only 51% of the population to be able to use clean water. …show more content…
It covers 71% of the Earth’s surface that service for our life and is water non-renewable. The freshwater resources only have 0.3% in the world which can be drunk by people, that’s mean the freshwater resources accounted for seven one hundred thousand of the global total water. From the picture, you can see these children not very strong and not very clean, the important reason is they don’t have enough water to take a shower and plant some food; not only these, they also will get thickness which is they drink is mud water even dead. For them water is precious, for us water is …show more content…
Now in our world, the water can provide people to live per person have ten thousand cubic meters can be used per year. Until 2025, the shortage of fresh water resources will become a challenging issue facing the common world. Although the earth has 70.8%of the area is covered with water, fresh water resources is extremely limit, humans really can use is part of the rivers and lakes and groundwater, accounts for only about 0.25% of the total water, even these water distributions not average. Right now, there are 1.1 billion people don’t have enough water to use, 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. Considering now and further conditions we should take actions to save water rather than talk. First, in our life, we need to recycle use water, for example we can use the water which we wash the food to flush the toilet; we need to pay attention when we use the water if waste. Second, our government should let people notice water’s important rather than only announce, such as let people know the Africa’s situation and let people learn more about water’s knowledge. Last but not least, all countries should consider water’s problem and should work together to help

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