Summary
The article that I have chosen is about the supply of water. People tend to drink an average or 2 or 3 liter of water a day, but people use way more water if the consumption of food is included. When meat is made for consumption, it requires way more water need then growing grain products. As the population and income raises, farmers will have to increase the amount of water used. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has said farmers will approximately use 2,000 more cubic kilometers or a quarter more then what they use today by the year 2030. In some parts of the world water is scarce, and as global warming worsens water gets scarcer.
The connection with this article with chapter one, is that they are both about scarcity. As the supply of water slowly diminishes, the cost of water will raise and the cost of things that require water will also increase. The supply of drinking water will decrease and the demand of water will rise. The human consumption of water from farming is 70%. Mr. Frérot, the head of the water division of Veolia Environnement, states that as up to 70% of the water used for crops will not even reach the crops perhaps because of leaky irrigation channels or drain into rivers and groundwater.
Reflection
I usually drink about 3 or 4 liters of water a day, even though doctors say it’s healthy to drink 8 cups of water daily. The fact that the price of water will increase sounds very sad because it’s such a daily necessity. There are many things that are cheap that farmers can do to save more water for corps like drip irrigation or fixing major leaks. When people brush their teeth, they can close the faucet when not using. The supply of water will diminish slowly because of global warming and world population, but we can do our own small part to help slow down the rate at which water is disappearing.
