Solutions to Global Water Scarcity – Dmytro Krasovskyi

Abstract:

Water and food consumption increased greatly for the last 100 years. And it seems that thereasons are simple. Population growth, unclean water, climatic factors and expanded peopleneeds. Almost everyone is convinced that the main reason of water and food scarcity is the resultof population growth. On the one hand, it is true. More people-more consumption. Nevertheless,population growth is not the main reason of emergence such problem as deficit of food andwater.The main reason is incompetent use of financial resources. Amount of money which is spenton agriculture is impermissibly low and authorities know it, but political factors, wrong prioritiesand sometimes even humans` greed do not allow people to act correctly. Some people do noteven know about scarcity problem scale. It is more convenient to think that if now hunger andthirst is not concerning the country you live in, than it is no sense to worry about it, but it iswrong. …víceméně