Water. Used all the time, in our daily lives, by every person out there. Think about how much everyone uses in just one day, now multiply that by about 7 billion. As you can see we use a lot of water on this planet and depend on it for a source for almost everything we do. But what would happen if the water just ran out? What would we do? Well in China they are facing a similar problem.
China's resources are running out, more specifically Northern China. The great loss of water is effecting everything there. It's effecting the food, people, and even the electricity. With all this water consumption, Northern China is struggling to keep up with the demand for water. But what is causing this? What is driving China's water scarcity? The concerning …show more content…
People move, times change, and everything changes with it. What used to be very popular now is most likely considered the unpopular opinion. Urbanization is one of the biggest contributing factors to loss of water in China. In 1980, the urban population was 190 million, by 2011 it was 690 million. That is 51.3% of China's entire population, from 1980 to 2011 it has increased 32.1%(Document B). With all of this comes more and more uses for water, more jobs being demanded that have use for water. Urbanization has a lot of uses for water, and with more cities and jobs comes more people. Then the cities expand and more people come again, its a constantly moving cycle that never seems to …show more content…
China itself has used up half of the worlds coal supply, which has just been burned and gone straight back into our atmosphere. This right here is just one of the many examples of pollution that China has produced. "With lagging growth in wastewater treatment faculties, including sewage, about 20 billion m of untreated wastewater is directly discharged into water bodies." (Document E) When water is contaminated it is unsafe to drink, people are to blame for the pollution and contamination in the water. If one body of water is contaminated and it flows into another, the whole body of water is unsafe and cannot be ingested. Without realizing it people have directly polluted their own source for water with sewage, fertilizers, and so many more harmful things. We have lost so many clean usable water sources to pollution. But the fault on this part is ours for not realizing the harm we have done to
China's resources are running out, more specifically Northern China. The great loss of water is effecting everything there. It's effecting the food, people, and even the electricity. With all this water consumption, Northern China is struggling to keep up with the demand for water. But what is causing this? What is driving China's water scarcity? The concerning …show more content…
People move, times change, and everything changes with it. What used to be very popular now is most likely considered the unpopular opinion. Urbanization is one of the biggest contributing factors to loss of water in China. In 1980, the urban population was 190 million, by 2011 it was 690 million. That is 51.3% of China's entire population, from 1980 to 2011 it has increased 32.1%(Document B). With all of this comes more and more uses for water, more jobs being demanded that have use for water. Urbanization has a lot of uses for water, and with more cities and jobs comes more people. Then the cities expand and more people come again, its a constantly moving cycle that never seems to …show more content…
China itself has used up half of the worlds coal supply, which has just been burned and gone straight back into our atmosphere. This right here is just one of the many examples of pollution that China has produced. "With lagging growth in wastewater treatment faculties, including sewage, about 20 billion m of untreated wastewater is directly discharged into water bodies." (Document E) When water is contaminated it is unsafe to drink, people are to blame for the pollution and contamination in the water. If one body of water is contaminated and it flows into another, the whole body of water is unsafe and cannot be ingested. Without realizing it people have directly polluted their own source for water with sewage, fertilizers, and so many more harmful things. We have lost so many clean usable water sources to pollution. But the fault on this part is ours for not realizing the harm we have done to