ne of the major reasons behind the water crisis is due to the rapid
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population growth over the past few decades. To give you an estimate,
even today, 2.1 billion people live without safe water, and 3.4 billion without
safe toilets. Did you know? Only 0.03% of the 70% of water available for us
is fresh water? Let that sink in for a bit. That's one of the exact reasons why
water is so important for fresh water ecosystems. Let's be real, in many
regions, rivers, lakes, and groundwater are being overused faster than they
can be replenished. Let us also not forget, climate change also plays a
huge role behind the water crisis therefore, adding fuel to the situation.
From irregular rainfall, droughts, melting of polar ice caps which eventually
Credits to:
https://water.org/our-impact/water-crisis/
& Other external sources :).
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population growth over the past few decades. To give you an estimate,
even today, 2.1 billion people live without safe water, and 3.4 billion without
safe toilets. Did you know? Only 0.03% of the 70% of water available for us
is fresh water? Let that sink in for a bit. That's one of the exact reasons why
water is so important for fresh water ecosystems. Let's be real, in many
regions, rivers, lakes, and groundwater are being overused faster than they
can be replenished. Let us also not forget, climate change also plays a
huge role behind the water crisis therefore, adding fuel to the situation.
From irregular rainfall, droughts, melting of polar ice caps which eventually
Credits to:
https://water.org/our-impact/water-crisis/
& Other external sources :).
