Global Water Crisis Essays

We also read articles from credible magazines such as National Geographic There is also a website called Global Water Intelligence which is a Market-Leading website for the analysis of International water industry.It distillates water by flashing a portion of water into steam in multiple stages and then condense them into portable water.This shows that water crisis can raise global awareness and promote international cooperation.Waste water cause water pollution, which can contaminate fresh water source; by using “New Water”, water can be reused and it will not cause any further pollution.Water crisis is a global issue.

In more immediate terms, water pricing will have two primary opponents: those that fear being unable to afford water (the world’s poor) and those that use immense quantities of water (agricultural producers).Water is essential for human survival, yet through population growth, pollution, and contamination, our available water supply is shrinking proportion to the amount of people the global supply needs to support.[21] For a more scientific discussion and study of water pricing and its effects on water usage, see: Margriet Caswell, Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman, “The Effects of Pricing Policies on Water Conservation and Drainage,” .[4]  Sadly, just as technology has allowed us to harness water and mold it to our needs, scient...

PESTEL also ensures that company’s performance is aligned positively with the powerful forces of change that are affecting business environment (Porter, 1985).This analysis is carried out to Unilever Global because when there is a change in the macroeconomic environment company have to look forward implementing strategies in order to overcome the challenges.When responding for the global crisis focusing on economical, social and environmental factors are important.This crisis led to the global recession which affected the whole world.In order to respond to the crisis around the world Unilever offers products with small packages, sachet, affordable variants of global brands for low income consumers.Focusing on innovation is also a best wa...

One of the greatest leaps in the global initiative to protect the world’s remaining freshwater is the Protocol on Water and Health, which was ratified by twenty signatory nations to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary and International Lakes.These alarming figures are now strong sending signals to global leaders to act promptly in order to solve the worsening water crisis in the world.Said protocol was made effective on August 4, 2005 to be the foremost legally binding global tool for the preclusion, as well as containment of the different kinds of diseases related to polluted water.Under this protocol, the comprehensive way to manage, put off, and lessen illnesses linked to polluted water entails sufficient sa...

And, combined with the top-down governance system setting standards which need to be reached by every state regarding water quality and quality, ecological requirements and permitted degradation levels through land use policies, it ensures that management is not static and behind the changing catchment pressures upon the water resource.Consequently Palestine is in a water crisis since it cannot meet its own water needs (Frederiksen 2003).Only time will tell how useful and politically favoured RBM is in addressing the crisis, and whether it is continued to be used alone or alongside other water management concepts cuch as international ‘virtual water’ sharing.According to the research of Oki and Kanae (2006 pp1068) the global consumption ...

Aquifers in the north would supplement the water supply but this would require an intensive study and analysis to ensure that they are a safe alternative for sully of water for consumption.Anup Shah, Ecology and the Crisis of Overpopulation: Future Prospects for Global Sustainability, Northampton: Edward Elgar publishers, 1998, 86-162.Mary H Cooper, Water Shortages: Is There Enough Fresh Water for Everyone?There is a global change in the climatic conditions and this has led to the eventual and rapid disappearance of critical ecosystems not only in Bloomington but also in other cities all over the world threatening the continuous supply of water for their increasing populations.In the Chicago area, similar to other parts of the continent,...

Brooks Nina, 2007, Imminent Water Crisis in India, Retrieved on .The main threats are terrorism, water crisis, and energy crisis.Extremely poor management, unclear laws, government corruption, and industrial and human waste have caused this water supply crunch and rendered what water is available practically useless due to the huge quantity of pollution” (Brooks) .A soaring population, the warp-speed sprawl of cities, and a vast and thirsty farm belt have all put new strains on a feeble, ill-kept public water and sanitation network.”  (SENGUPTA) Some of the Indian states have lot of water resources while the others lack it.Sengupta Somini, 2006, Water Crisis Grows Worse as India Gets Richer, Retrieved on .

How do companies protect themselves against non-stop allegations from special interest groups that have made them a target?The following lessons can be learned from this case for MNC’s doing business in the global marketplace: Coke & Pepsi in India .Did having and Indian born CEO help Pepsi’s case?Q1) Identify the issues that are going on in this case with respect to issues .Q 7) what lessons does this case present for MNC’s doing business in the global marketplace?

We will see a doctor and take medicine when we get sick, generally most of the diseases are under our control in short time; water is not alike human body, you might cannot see it from unsafe become clean drinking in your lifetime because water treatment takes over 100 years to recover the polluted water.In my perspective, to dealing with the global water crisis, we must leave sufficient water in rivers and lakes for ensuring their ecological health.“We have been trying to meet insatiable demands by continuously expanding a finite water supply” (Global Issue 225).This is kind of use up the water by the second time, better than use pure water.According to Maude Barlow’s article, millions of people live in countries that cannot provide cle...

Because of early reforms and a strong supervision over the banking sector, the Egyptian economy was able resist these first round effects of the rapid decline of global financial markets.In the tourism sector, employment is likely to fall according to WTTC by 1.47 to 1.39 million workers particularly if the sector faces any new dangers not to mention the global recession whose consequences are still developing.The increase in global prices by mid 2008 corresponded with the first round of the financial crisis resulting in domestic inflation and a decline in demand which led to a decrease in growth and created unemployment in Egypt.Even though the Egyptian economy responded flexibly to the global crisis comparing to other developing countr...

For instance Africa, where the conditions are already worse, will see different countries fighting for the Nile, Zambezi, Niger, and Volta river basins to meet their water needs.Different states in India are fighting for their share of water bodies.Chinese farmers are sacrificing their water needs to feed urban demands of cities.Shared water resources among countries will add to this fight.Water extraction rate from natural resources like lakes, rivers and underground water wells is faster than their replenishment rate.

The consequences of lack of fresh water for consumption are far reaching.Barlow and Clarke state that one cannot simply whisk away the crisis of fresh water we have in the world today (25).For instance, there would be increased cases of waterborne diseases, decreased economic output, reduced agricultural productivity ... ... middle of paper ... ...A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources.Since life generally depends on water, it is imperative upon us to adopt solutions that will foster water conservation.Conserve Water, Drink Wine: Recollections of a Vinous Voyage of Discovery.

However, due to close cultural attachment of people of Uganda to these water resources, the government found it difficult to create potential programs that will optimize the use of the water resources in the country (National Water Development Report 2005).Another major factor that leads to water shortage in Uganda is global warming.World Bank and World Heath Organization noted that there are about 2 billion people have no access to clean and safe water and about 1 billion people have no enough clean water to meet their daily water requirements.Uganda’s aim on making collaboration with her transboundaries is for all of them to obtain fair benefits from the water resources as well as to ensure that they will get sufficient supply of clean...

The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis.The failure of DGSE models to predict the crisis or to provide useful policy guidance requires a return to the basic Keynesian insight that the economy can be far away from general equilibrium for long periods.Although the market economy is clearly the system of choice in today’s global marketplace, there is significant debate regarding the amount of government intervention considered optimal for efficient economic operations.The active phase of the crisis, which manifeste...

They would first apologize for the mistake then explain that they are taking action by reducing their usage of water in the plants, not polluting the water and soil, and not selling solid waste as fertilizer.What lessons does this case present for MNCs doing business in the global marketplace?Like in this case, water has a significance meaning to Indians even though they have some of the worst water in the world in India.I guarantee that if they were in the United States and water was a huge significance here, they would change their ways much faster than they did in India.I think the main lesson that this case presents for MNCs doing business in the global marketplace is that companies NEED to do research about the country they are ente...

Global Change Research Program in 2000, the average national temperature has risen by 1*F and precipitation has increased 5-10%.Concerns about the effects of global warming, along with the energy crisis, call for a change in the U.S. Energy policy.One system affected by global warming in the U.S. is the coastal wetlands, including the recently devastated Gulf Coast region.Reduction in snowpack- which affects the timing and flow of water in these regions- due to climate change could easily lead to water conflicts and shortages.As your advisor on energy policy, I believe it is important to inform you on the current status of global warming and of the energy crisis.

Most of the problems we have today, such as ocean depletion, food shortages, water shortages, air pollution, water pollution, and global warming are the effects of overpopulation.This is how the global problem of overpopulation came about.There are several solutions to the major global problem.Freshwater, drinkable water, is the most critical natural resource to humans.It is the greatest global crisis facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Further, it is estimated that agricultural irrigation consumes some 65% of global freshwater supplies and already many countries and regions are experiencing water scarcity at alarming levels due to prolonged periods of drought.It is estimated that global energy demand could jump by 50% by 2030, consistent with a global population increase of 1.5 billion over the next two decades and this translates to a global warming estimate of the order of 6oC if fossil fuels continue to be the primary energy resource.At present, it is estimated that some 15% of the global population do not have access to safe water and the majority of these are in developing countries.There is no doubt that the overwhelming threat to sustainability of humanity in th...

Water resources in India can be broadly classified in three categories: surface water resources, ground water resources and glacier resources of Indian’s Himalayas.Most of the population in India relies on surface water supply by local agencies and ground water pumping for almost all their needs.It has not only leaded to decrease in water levels of primary water resources, but has also crunched the available infrastructure.The foreword of the report says, “The global warming is bound to affect the hydrologic cycle resulting in further intensification of temporal and spatial variations in the water availability.” The statement speaks volumes about the seriousness of the issue.The Ganges has many tributaries which supply water and are a so...

People have been forced to buy these commodities because of water safety concerns in municipal water supplies crating another dilemma in the provision of water resources.The debates whether the provision of water to citizens should remain a sole government responsibility or that such entities should be privatized will continue to dominate regulations in the water service industry, but the overall record performance of private companies is a testimony that privatization is not only meeting its challenges for the present but also preparing to encounter and solve such misgivings about its efficiency in meeting both economic and social objectives in the future(Peter Cook, 2004) .Because water is an economic good private entrepreneurs and i...

(Mideast faces fresh water crisis, By Staff Writer on Sunday, March 16, 2008) Another major cause of shrinking water supply is water pollution; it becomes a major problem for all the countries of world, developed countries in Europe and North America face problems due to water pollution.(Water Politics, 2008) As shortage of water increases by time to time, many countries of the world try to prevent this shortage by making laws and strategies for efficient use of water in house holds and industrial sectors.(Hinrichsen & Tacio, 2001) The root cause of current global water crisis, especially in the third world countries, is population and there is a serious need to meet this crisis with modern techniques of water management.The overall ...

Owing to water scarcity, as well as mass contamination of shallow water, many towns and villages are progressively getting water from subversive reserves.In a preceding report, in Pearl River Deltas besides Yangtze River Delta areas, the water crisis is dominant and the water is considered inconsumable due to heavy effluence (Gallagher, 2007, p. 57).According to an International Energy Agency report, the Chinese are the reason for 7 percent consumption of the global primary energy in 1974 besides 14 percent in 2003.In short, climate change may significantly worsen the Chinese water crisis as well as loom if food security.Climate structures forecast that global warming would result in reduced rainfall in northern China and increased the f...

Literally much of the region is primarily considered to suffer from economic water scarcity, which means that investments in water resources and appropriate human capacities are not substantial enough to meet water demands of the population (IFPRI 2013).Water scarcity is a global issue which requires immediate attention.Web of Creation (2003) states that the main cause of the shortage of fresh water is global warming.Global issues (2010) points out that another reason for water crisis is the commoditization of water.Water scarcity is the defined as the lack of access to adequate quantities of water for human and environmental uses However, the Water Project (2014) states that water scarcity can be explained in two ways, it is either the ...

Discuss whether this global leader has succeeded in handling crises from headquarters in Atlanta with reference to both the Belgium school children case and to Dasani in the UK.Coke are master marketers, they can sell pretty much anything – even tap water in the right market – but sometimes they get so caught up in the marketing that they lose touch with reality.”Moreover, “The Independent” was criticising: “A company takes ordinary mains water, puts it into fancy blue bottles, slaps on an exotic name and sells it for thousands of times more than it costs out of the tap.* Dan Pyle Millar, Robert Lawrence Heath – “Responding to Crisis: A Rhetorical Approach to Crisis Communication”, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2004 * Michael Regester, Jud...

The fact is that global food crisis threatened to create a tragedy by forcing up to 100 million people into extreme poverty (Martine.It is suggested that were it not for urban agriculture, the situation for global food crisis was expected to be very severe by 2050 (Martine.It is clear that by the end of 20th century, there was a global food crisis.A resource here refers to water, land, and even the modern farming methods.In other parts of the world, water was conserved and re-used as part of the stepped architecture of the cities and vegetable beds designed to gather sun in order to prolong the growing season.

Overpopulation has also increased industrial development, which contributes to massive urbanization and rising of living standards5.As time goes by, the world’s population expands more rapidly, but there is no more freshwater on the Earth than there was two thousand years ago, when the population was three percent of its current size4.Overpopulation is the major global problem because of several reasons.Most of the problems we have today, such as ocean depletion, food shortages, water shortages, air pollution, water pollution, and global warming are the effects of overpopulation2.The more people there are, the more resources consumed and the more waste created.

The first aspect of solutions to global warming should be the automobile industry which contributes to climate crisis the most.Global warming has been the biggest climate change crisis nowadays.Therefore, although the catalytic converter can decrease the harmful of emissions but it cannot solve the problem of global warming.Moreover the catalytic converter actually does not contribute to solving the global warming because it converts the exhaust gas into carbon dioxide and water which is culprit of global warming.However humans are increasingly aware of global warming would bring catastrophic changes to the Earth so that many solutions have been discussed nowadays.

Water scarcity has been a problem to the nation and fresh water is decreasing... Water scarcity also called water crisis is the lack of sufficient water available to meet the wants of water usage within the country.The earth is covered up with 70% water and the freshwater makes up a very small portion which is only 2.5% of the total amount of water available (“Fresh Water Crisis”).Water scarcity was chosen to write and inform the readers on how important this issue is to the global economy and lastly digital divide was chosen to explain to the readers on how the poor country is compared to the rich people.The Four global issues chosen were virus attack, malaria, digital dive and water scarcity.

At the same time, financial centres in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo were also affected in this crisis.During the crisis, global news agencies utilised the Internet and telegraph updating news to their home countries.Since the crisis stared in Thailand because of the fail in banking system, a political upheaval was triggered in South Korea and Indonesia.Global journalism: A survey of the world's mass media.Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Neglect of water catchment areas through deforestation and mining has also caused water shortage.Another activity that takes place is effective use of water (“Water Shortage!” 1).“Global Water Shortage Looms In New Century”.Scientists are estimating a global water crisis in the next century.Indications from statistics show that global water shortage is looming.