Water Shortage and Desalination Plants -3

Same thing happens in California, where if there is not enough rain, there begins a tussle with farmers who want more water for their crops and the urban cities who want water for every day use. Plus they have the environmental concerns which get the Federal government involved in managing water supply. And the western states are the fastest growing in the nation with one of the driest weather. Whatever the conservation of the water is going to be done, you cannot account for the population growth. The water supply will be the same, but the per capita water consumption will have to go down. And with it, a certain kind of lifestyle. Pools will be out of the question and so will the front and the back yard. Water may have to be transported from long distances. Ground water and tube wells will have to be installed. Maybe showers will be taken less frequently or shorter. And this is just in the western countries. What about the poor countries, which don’t have much, water to start with.

It is hard to promote conservation in places where people are already conserving water since they don’t have much anyway. Safe and drinking water is a dream to hundreds of million of people especially in Africa and Asia and the coming Global Warming (whatever the opponents say about it) will make the lives immensely difficult especially for people living near the Himalayas (like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and China).