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Around 700 million people in 43 countries suffer today from water scarcity.

By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions.

With the existing climate change scenario, almost half the world's population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030, including between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa.

In addition, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace between 24 million and 700 million people.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of water-stressed countries of any region.

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It may be that the idea water shortage may be used as a method of fear mongering, however if it is true then we have a great problem on our hands. I do think that the way that society uses water is outrageous and we would be stupid to think that it wouldn't have some negative impact or outcome. With the population also rising rapidly are we to see more and more water shortages all over the world?

The info says that we will see that 2/3 of the world's population is going to experience shortages in water. What does this mean for the human race? What does this mean for our species and the planet? More wars? More hatred? Who knows, there are a great many questions and little answers.

My hope is that technology will move us out of this, there must be a sustainable way to get water to everyone...Without destroying the planet and without destroying ourselves.

I would love to hear everyone else's opinion on it, what are your thoughts on this issue? Are you aware of any solutions, that you have read or have researched? Please feel free to post whatever you think relates to this.

Discuss intelligently.

Peace and love

BreathlessVision said:

How would we harness that energy?

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Dys said:

BreathlessVision said:

How would we harness that energy?

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Mana enhancives and Dark Ritual should do the trick.

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Amishmedic8 said:

Most of the water problem, from what I gather does have to do with the population and our diet.

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Also the oil industry uses massive amounts of water to pump into the ground forcing out the oil. This process known as fracking is polluting our ground water supplies.

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Amishmedic8 said:

Im no chemist but could we split it into hydrogen and oxygen and would the two seperaly weigh less and be easier to ship...

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Haha, funny thought, but there's a thing called 'conservation of mass' If you split water into its constituent atoms, the combination will still weigh as much, but it will be *much* more difficult to transport as gases are generally more difficult to transport than liquids or solids, and hydrogen is a very particular example of that due to its tiny size (so it tends to leak like mad). Also, you'll be transporting two hazardous substances (high flammability) instead of one safe substance

koraks said:

Amishmedic8 said:

Most of the water problem, from what I gather does have to do with the population and our diet.

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This is a large factor, but not even the biggest problem at this point.

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Also the oil industry uses massive amounts of water to pump into the ground forcing out the oil. This process known as fracking is polluting our ground water supplies.

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This problem is currently insignificant in terms of water shortage. It has no influence. I don't think fracking to unlock shoal gas is a particularly good idea, but it's not a real cause of the water problem.

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