Arid Water Resources

Introduction Water is one of the most crucial elements in industry, farming, agriculture and everyday life making life on earth impossible without it. However, there are some regions that this important resource is limited or polluted and are known as arid regions. Certain places are located in all the world and coincide with poor countries such as Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 18% of the total. Over the years, these areas have been affected by water shortages as lack of natural rainfall resulting in deficiency of meeting the needs of the growing population. According to UNESCO (2009) about 40% of peoples living in similar districts have suffered problems of water continuously and it is predicted that by …show more content…
Current situation of water resources in arid regions Chart 1 below illustrates water resources by taking the example of Middle East and North Africa countries, obviously showing that internal and external renewable water is present in the majority part of these specific …show more content…
Arid regions are continuously in search for ways of supplying their populations with fresh and clean water therefore, similar projects would likely rise the quantity of the latter. In Bangladesh, for example, the local government is investing intensively on this technique as reported from the British Geological Survey (2001). Even though this could be beneficial to arid regions, the cost of the construction of relevant structures and of the process would be unquestionably large and more to the point it would also affect the environment and maybe jeopardize the habitat of endangered species. Furthermore, if systematic water transfers take place it could cause that the basin from where the water is taken to drought in times of no natural