Water crisis

solutions. In the case of the Syrian impact on Jordan’s water crisis, policies can be established to help assist the Syrian refugee community, while aiding Jordan’s water challenges as well. For instance, policies will allow for individual involvement at the local level to help create water development initiatives for the higher working agencies such as inter-agency groups from the United States. These agencies can then help institute water management experts to work directly inside Jordan on…

Brief Background The Syrian civil war has been named the worst humanitarian crisis of our day. An estimated 13.4 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian aid (UNHCR). 4.7 million of whom have fled to bordering countries, while 8.7 million remain within the county’s borders – internally displaced (UNHCR). The conflict in Syria started in 2011 just as the Arab Uprisings began toppling authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. In March of 2011 Syria joined the uprisings by conducting…

The air we breathe is essential to keep us alive, the same also applies about water. From every form of life, to the production of as little as a paper clip to as big as an airplane, everything needs water. Water covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface with 96.5 percent found in seas and ocean, known as saltwater or seawater. The rest 3.5 percent, is known as freshwater which the primary source of water needed to support our life, found in groundwater also in glaciers and the ice caps of…

Wildfires are natural disturbances that shape landscapes and can alter aquatic ecosystems and communities. Wildfires can be followed closely by flood events that cause debris flows and scouring, potentially compounding effects on aquatic systems. In 2011, the Horseshoe 2 Fire of southeast Arizona burned over 90,000 hectares of forest and was followed by massive monsoonal rains. These rains triggered flood events that scoured creek beds within the range. In one stream within the affected…

believe it is possible to save enough water by just saving it on the urban level. Everyday people and businesses cutting water use so everyone can benefit from more water later. The other side sees the agricultural business in California as the problem and that they are using way too much water growing crops in our desert climate. No matter what view you have on the issue the fact still remains, California is using too much water. For an example of how much water California uses in a year, one…

particularly water and plant resources. The story commences with the attempted abduction of an engineer, Dr Francesca Cabral, who has discovered a process that converts sea water into fresh water. After surviving a plane crash, in which her abductors die, she is rescued by an Indian tribe, and survives in the jungles of the Amazon Basin for ten years until Gamay and Paul Trout arrive to rescue her. Cussler’s book explores the realities of water scarcity, corporate greed, and theft of water…

faucet handles when they want drinking water or to wash our clothes, for countless of millions more worldwide, this simple act often turns into an ordeal. As such, world organizations from several developed and undeveloped nations convened recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to identify and target the five most urgent needs currently found in every third world nation--be it Latin America, Africa or elsewhere. Our article below lists them as being drinking water, food supplies, energy…

For thousands of years, water has been a vital and imperative substance that managed to shape many civilizations. Humans had settled down near freshwater sources in order to decrease the risk of dehydration. However, as people had become more technologically advanced, many new beverages challenged the popularity of water. Tom Standage divides the world’s history into six popular beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-cola. Drinks have been used throughout history to symbolize the…

With no water a lot of people are going to lose jobs. Since water is becoming scarce less crops are going to be grown and the price of produce is going to rise. But the main impact the drought has is people being cut from their jobs. The University of California estimated that more than…

open-air toxic waste pits on the Amazon rain forest floor, 18 billion gallons of waste water, and released many contaminants. This effected the indigenous people negatively because many of the waste pits were on their territory. The waste pits contaminated their water supply and caused the death of the fish, which was their main source of food. The people also developed rashes as they bathed in the contaminated water. Texaco left Ecuador in 1992 but left the majority of the waste they created.…