Future

==Water, Water...Disappears! What will the __future__ be like if nothing is done? ==

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 * A. Political**



High Hopes for Water Distribution
The importance of water consumption and sanitaion has read around the world. The World Water Council has created a project to raise awareness of political issues concerning water and consumption and sanitation and how it can be used for politics. With the last 50 years, Hydropolitics has reported only 37 disputes over water that involed violence; majority of hydrocentered events and discussions are held verbally. Cooperation has weighted over [conflict] concerning "international water sources." Cooperations have established water regimes through treaties that were proven stable and bring high optimism. This is just a small amount of information to prove the importance of why we need to be concerned about our prevalent water supply.

("Water Scarcity")


 * B. Economic**

It is expected that by 2025, forty countries in the regions are going to experience water scarcity. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals number 7 is to bring substantial economic gains, each $1 invested would yield an economic return of between $3 and $34, depending on the region. (WHO) Households with improved services suffer less morbidity and mortality from water-related diseases.The benefits would include an average global reduction of 10 % in diarrheal episodes. It is predicted that health-related costs avoided would reach $7.3 billion per year. Also, the annual global value of adult working days gained, because of less illness, would rise to almost $750 million. better services resulting from the relocation of a well or borehole to a site closer to user communities and better educational & Productive opportunities when they have water and sanitation facilities nearby for females. An increase in disposable household income and in demand for agricultural products, and development in tourism would occur.

Millennium Development Goals, Target 7,ensure environmental sustainability. It would integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse loss of environmental resources. It would reduce biodiversity loss and by 2015 it would halve the proportion of people without sutainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. An improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers would occur by 2020. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity. Also by the year 2025, it is estimated that nearly 230 million Africans will be facing water scarcity, and 460 million will live in water-stressed countries. Due to irrigation and demands of agriculture water usuage has increased by six times in the past one-hundred years and will double again by 2050.
 * C. Environmental**

This picture displays the African nations that are expected to be experiencing water stress and the ones that are expected to be facing water scarcity by 2025. The littler graphic displays that as the world's population continues to increase, a higher proportion of the population will be facing water scarcity and water stress.

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