Our Thirsty World

Posted by writer on September 19th, 2009 at 06:34pm

You are thirsty. You find a cup and walk over to the kitchen faucet. When you turn the spigot, out comes clean, fresh, satisfying water. You probably don’t stop to think how lucky you are, and how millions of people around the world cannot perform the simple thing you just did.

There is currently a water crisis in our world and people are dying. Why do we have this crisis when most of the world is covered with water? Because, amazingly, only about 3% of the world’s water is drinkable. Most of this undrinkable water is from the oceans — salt water that is not safe to drink.

Thanks to our industrial waste, and large companies refusing to stop dumping waste into normally safe sources of drinking water, a majority of our drinkable water has been polluted or contaminated.

Most of us in the United States don’t even notice that all of this is going on in our world because we are blessed with abundant clean drinking water. We go to an appointment at an office and bottled water is available for us to drink. Usually, when we patronize a restaurant, we are served a glass of water as soon as we arrive. We are even able to get bottled water from many vending machines.

Water is necessary for humans to live healthily and because of this water crisis, millions are ill or dying; especially people in developing countries where they are even fighting over water. In this crisis, the highest death rates are suffered by babies and the very old. The number that shocks me most is 4,900 — every day that is how many babies die because of lack of clean drinking water.

It is gradually becoming clear that there is an immediate need for new water treatment plants or new ways to treat sewage water. Practically speaking, these are the new water machines that we really need.

For our world today, this is assuredly a very tall order. Modern science has created treatment plants to take the salt out of saltwater, as well as a new generation of machines that can make water out of the air.

With the crisis becoming worse, there are many companies, some of them new, working on brand-new technology. The crisis is becoming worse because our underwater sources in some areas are becoming polluted which makes this water crisis one that could affect the United States as well as other developed countries.

Approximately 500 gallons of drinkable water can be produced, right out of the air, by a water machine now on the market. Such water machines are not portable, but progress is being made in this new technology.

Water machines that are small and portable are probably the wave of the future, and they will be located in every home, restaurant, office, and business. But at least this crisis is finally being recognized. We must only hope that this realization has not come too late.

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