December 13, 2021
Water is very important for all living organisms, we can't survive without water. Our body requires water for functioning. Our brain requires about 80-90 %of water. As we all know that water becoming shorter slowly almost everywhere, so it's our responsibility to save water by taking some serious steps. Suddenly some points came to my mind related to water saving. That's why I decided to write an article about this serious issue.
First I want to talk about some root causes of the water crisis.
I think increasing the population is the biggest root cause of water scarcity, because when there are more people then more demand for water. Developing countries mostly face this problem.
Often people dump the waste of the factories near the rivers, and this act pollutes the water ,and people who rely on those water bodies face water shortage.
I think overuse of water is also a big reason for water shortage, like excessive use of water in agriculture, land and other activities also cause water stress.
Water pollution is also a very big cause of water crisis, because releasing of waste in rivers, lakes and other water bodies, and wrong sewage systems also pollute water extremely.
Being a good citizen, we should perform our duty in saving water by staying in homes in several ways like,
We should stop tap in extra time while brushing our teeth, washing our face and washing the dishes. This is a very common activity in everyone's life so, if we all start taking care of this then we can contribute to water saving.
The second thing which came to my mind is that a lot of water wastes when someone watered the lawn too much. I think this is also a considerable point, we should try to watered the lawn with rain water as much as possible by collecting rain water. If we grow the grass species in our lawn which are drought tolerant and require less water, then we also save water. We should stop our children from using water toys that constantly waste water.
If we improve agricultural strategies like use of drip irrigation method, which directly water the plant roots and in this way water not evaporates as in spraying or other watering methods. Moreover we should try to water plants in cooler temperatures as in early morning that also help in conserving water.
I think we should not totally rely on municipal water, wells and groundwater to aggregate our crops, we should build our ponds to collect rainwater throughout the year. Seriously this water servers us in different ways like, we can easily nourish our livestock with this water and we can also irrigate our crops with this collect water.
Climate changing like global warming also play a big role in water shortage because when temperatures rises highly then huge amount of water from rivers, ocean and other water bodies evaporates at high level and ultemately cause water scarcity. Global warming is totally a man made disaster by using extra greenhouse gases like nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. In this way i think lot of trees everywhere is the best solution to overcome global warming, because trees have the ability to absorb all these harmful gases but unfortunately we are not even avoiding destroying the forests.
Approximately two third of the population is facing water shortage, and millions of people have no clean water to drink due to the wrong sewage system. That's why a lot of people around the world are affected by dangerous water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. Approximately 70% of the earth surface is covered with water in which 3% is covered with freshwater, and about two third of that water is in the form of frozen glaciers which we couldn't use. We should thank God that we have an access to clean drinking water so, we should use it wisely.
Thank you!
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