Global Fresh Water Shortage

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Fresh water shortage is a global issue. There are more than one hundred countries face different levels of fresh water shortage, and thirty years later there will be 28 to 33 hundred billion people have shortages of water. People lived in fresh water shortage countries cannot even have water to keep them alive. Because of the fresh water shortage, people lived near the southern Sahara desert abandoned farmland, and 200,000 people died from that. Africa, Asia, North American, Europe, South America and Australia have different levels of stress on river basins, so that basically means these places are already having fresh water shortage or have more risk to face fresh water shortage. As the fresh water shortage is getting worse, people should know what the problems are, what the causes are and try to solve them. Many people may not feel any fresh water shortage in their life because they did not have any experience of it, but fresh water is still a life-or-death issue in many places in the world. There are currently one out of sixty people in the world cannot have safe drinking water, which means that there are 1.1 billion people waiting for clean drinking water every day. Safe drinking water shortage results in 6,000 people are getting killed every day. In addition there are 3 billion people without access to clean water sanitation, and half of hospitals in the world were full of patients suffering from various diseases. There are 2.2 million people a year dead of lack of water or dirty water-borne diseases. After all of these horrible statistics, the facts are although in some places have fresh water resources, they might still suffer from water shortage. Because how to save, use and distribute water recourses can determine the satisfaction of family, farm, industrial and environmental needs. Meanwhile, population growth, urbanization and increased domestic and
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