Evaluation:
Published: 21.04.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Resource Shortage', 1.
  • Essays 'Resource Shortage', 2.
Extract

Water is an essential commodity for human existence. It is used for consumption, maintaining public health, agriculture, industry, and for transportation. Serious water scarcities will affect virtually every aspect of human life. Water resources are enormously skewed geographically, and many countries with lower water availability also have high rates of population growth. This will exacerbate their water shortage in the future.
Many countries are also highly dependent on water that originates outside their borders. …

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