Water is all around us. We're surrounded by it, but why is that in some third world countries water is a scarcity? Some people may have to walk miles just to get water and it may not even be clean. There are many conscious efforts to help these countries to obtain this fresh water. There are many projects and campaigns to help these countries like the ThirstProject which, with the help of donations, this company will build a well near a village where it's needed. There's so much to be done in other countries that we don't necessarily understand that in the United States, we could run out of water as well.
Every day we use gallons and gallons of clean, drinkable water for our own enjoyment. This is a luxury that we can't afford. This past spring Los Angles, California has had a drought and it cost them greatly, they've lost food and money because of it. They have to import thousands of gallons because they aren't producing enough of it. Which makes the simple tasks we use water for to be a much larger one. What will happen when we start running out of fresh water? Yes, we have the Hoover Dam, but that won't hold us forever, pretty soon- at the rate we are using it, it will become depleted. Lake Mead has become the shallowest it's been. What happens when we can't use the Hoover Dam anymore? We then have to start importing water, which can be expensive.
There is multiple solutions to this problem. Which one is the best? We can't be too sure, but some of the best ideas out there are going to have to go against the public's opinion. Water companies are trying to solve this problem by recycling used water. This is a hard factor for many of us to get over, but it's one of the best ways we can start fixing this problem. Cities in Australia, Singapore, and London have already started working towards this goal, and some companies even tested out recycled water in Los Angles during the drought. Water companies have also looked into salt water desalination. Which turns salt water into fresh, clean drinking water, but this is also very expensive. To convert gallons salt water into drinking water can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars that the government doesn't have.
Another simple way to save on water is just by turning off the faucet when you brush your teeth, or not watering your lawn, or even taking faster showers and reducing your loads of laundry. There are many simple things we can do to help conserve water that a lot of Americans tend to over look. Saving water helps better not only the United States, but other countries as well. We then can use the surplus of water to continue to help the other countries in need. Without water there is no life so we must cherish it and try our best to conserve what we have left.
