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Learn About Water Sustainability

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Water sustainability facts

  • Water is hard to come by across the globe. Areas like the southwest portion of the United States are in a constant drought, while countries like India and China are urbanizing so quickly that supplying their booming cities with water is a struggle.
  • Commercial activity, industrial runoff, and natural disasters further pollute our freshwater.
  • The global water consumption rate is double the population growth rate, according to Reuters.
  • According to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the demand for drinking water will reach 150% of the actual supply in just five years. That means 1.8 billion people will live in water-scarce conditions.
  • NASA reports that humans are depleting one-third of our groundwater aquifers.
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Two factors that lead to water scarcity are groundwater depletion and saltwater intrusion. Read on for the highlights and to discover what you can do about it.

What is groundwater depletion?

Groundwater depletion is pretty straightforward. When people draw water from an aquifer faster than nature can replenish water through rain and other means, the aquifer slowly drains and can eventually run out of groundwater.

Groundwater depletion poses a massive problem for the surrounding area. If your city runs out of water, that’s game over! You would need to pack up and move somewhere with accessible drinking water, or the government would have to pay a pretty penny to ship water from somewhere else.

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What is saltwater intrusion?

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