About Current Worldwide Water Crisis
Our planet has had numerous sources of natural water since millions of years but at present we are facing water crisis. Our requirement for safe potable water for daily needs has continued to go up substantially with time. Though nature recycles fresh water for us, the growth of population has been so large as to cause scarcity of water. You would know that seventy percent of earth comprises of water but the content of fresh water is just 2.5 percent. It is amazing that mankind has access to just about one percent of freshwater that is naturally available as most of it is enclosed within glaciers or snow fields. As a result, present worldwide population of more than 6.8 billion gets just 0.007 percent of naturally available fresh water. Reasons for Water Crisis The reasons for the ongoing scarcity of water are many that go to include social, political, environmental and economical. While certain parts of our world have been lucky enough to get fresh and clean water in abu