Humanitarian crisis

Most people do not realize how much water is wasted each year. Even though there is plenty of water to go around for everyone and everything at this moment, there will come a time when humans will need to make serious adjustments in the way they use water. Anita Hamilton, Sandra Postel, and Maude Barlow demonstrate in their articles that they are concerned about water management. They also give examples of how our water is wasted. While Hamilton assumes humans are the only lives on earth that…

the entire political system and the decisions of their rulers are recognized by the people and the rules are accepted for their validity. Political systems that have high political legitimacy can be expected to be quick to recover from periods of crisis due to high resilience. Rulers and authorities in these political systems that have a considerable level of political legitimacy will be able to make decisions and commit resources…

Abundance: The Future is better than you think For every action there is a reaction, for every cause there is an effect. There’s always two sides of the coin, therefore in times of darkness, it can be easy to have an overwhelming desire to succumb to the darkness, but that is not the human spirit. Humans know how to survive and in order to address and overcome adversity, you have to believe that better exists or that more can be achieved. Technological innovations and inventions did not evolve…

and should be addressed immediately. Glass (2010) suggests that “the population is increasing most rapidly in cities,” and so the availability of water is also decreasing. Population growth is commonly seen as a key factor that adds to the water crisis, the general idea being that the more people there are, the more water is needed. The number of humans is increasing most rapidly in areas where water is harder to attain. This idea is supported by Mazur (2012) analysed The World Bank’s…

coal as the primary fuels. Fifty years would pass until scientists would invent atomic power through the discovery of uranium. However, the dangers of depending on coal, petroleum, natural gas, and uranium to supply the earth’s ever-growing energy crisis are evident. These fuels are becoming scarce, and their constant use endangers the…

In a world where access and portability are the number one requirement for most resources or novelties, it would seem a debate has risen in the wake of progress. Bottled water or tap water, and which is better for the world. Hands down, bottled water is the clear choice here, it is healthy, portable, exportable, and most importantly accessible to everyone. Around the world tap water is sparsely available to the people who need it.“783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2…

In the Precambrian Shield there are no continuous aquifers and ground water is only found in the fractured and weathered zones of Precambrian rock. These various aquifers are located primarily in gneiss and granite. The Precambrian shield only makes up a small portion of eastern Bolivia. Aquifers in this province are generally shallow at depth less than 90 meters and due to this many of the aquifers are biologically contaminated near populated areas (Roebuck et al. 2004). Majority of the ground…

Water supply on earth is finite. The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades. In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage. Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3…

Post-Sandy Price Gouging: Economically Sound, Ethically Dubious A Review of the Article Kalina Walters Montana State University Billings Post-Sandy Price Gouging: Economically Sound, Ethically Dubious Price Gouging Concept A concern for many consumers who have been involved in a natural disaster is how to get supplies at a reasonable price before they are gone. When natural events occur it leaves people in need of the very basic commodities like gasoline, groceries, and utilities. Stores and…

My Mindset On Water There are approximately 7.7 billion humans on earth. Every one of us is dependent on water the minute we are born. It is essential to our lives and we depend on it for our survival and for our strength. Depending on where we are born and what we encounter over our lives in relationship with water, our views and ideas on water differ from one another. It is in human nature to develop opinions on living and non-living objects based upon our experiences with that object. We…