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WATER

WATER. Everyone has a story. 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. What percentage is available for human use?. Less than 1 per cent of the world's freshwater, or about 0.003 per cent of all water on Earth, is readily accessible for direct human uses. Water Planet.

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WATER

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  1. WATER

  2. Everyone has a story

  3. 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. What percentage is available for human use?

  4. Less than 1 per cent of the world's freshwater, or about0.003 per cent of all water on Earth, is readily accessible for direct humanuses.

  5. Water Planet

  6. How Much Do We Need? • How much water does the average person use each day?

  7. A lot! • The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day. • The average daily water demand in the seven county metro area is approximately 265 million gallons. That means that we need enough water to fill the equivalent of 4 full Metrodomes to supply the region for one week.

  8. How’s the water?

  9. According to the report, “Poisoning Our Water, How thegovernment permits pollution,” by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund Approximately 40% of our waters are still not safe for swimming or fishing; there have been nearly 30,000 beach closings and advisories since 1988; and in 1998, 47 states issued fish consumption advisories because of high levels of dangerous chemicals.

  10. Between September, 1997 through December, 1998, more than 8 million pounds of persistent toxic metals (like lead and mercury) were released into our waterways…

  11. Nearly 900,000 pounds of reproductive toxins (like toluene) were released into our waterways…

  12. More than 2.5 million pounds of carcinogens (like vinyl chloride and benzene) were released into our waterways.

  13. It Runs Downhill Nutrients from Minnesota are traveling down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, where they are contributing to a "dead zone" the size of New Jersey.70% of those nutrients come from above the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi.

  14. The World’s Water

  15. Do We Have Enough? • At least one-fifth of all people do not have access to safe drinking water. • More than one-half of humanity lacks adequate sanitation.

  16. Already 26 countries around the globe have more people than their water resources can adequately serve.

  17. Close to 1 billion people in 40 countries are prone to famine

  18. What’s ahead?

  19. By the year 2025… the world's population of six billion people is expected to increase to nine billion. A 20-percent increase in fresh water will be needed. We don’t have it.

  20. "Many of the wars of this century were about oil -- but the wars of the next century will be about water." Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank, 1995

  21. Questions?

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