Extinction of our Main Solvent

Much less than one percent of the Earth's water is available for human use. This still represents a huge amount of water. This water is not distributed evenly over the planet. Areas that have large water needs may have to bring water in from long distances to service homeowners, businesses and agriculture. For example, southern and central California gets most of their water from northern California, which receives more rainfall.
The Middle East and Mexico suffer from water shortages. Much of the shortage in developing countries is from poor use of existing water supplies, due to pollution and waste.


In Illinois, there is usually enough water to use for drinking, agriculture, and manufacturing. As cities grow larger and industries expand, however, water use increases. This may require creating additional sources of water, by either drilling more water wells, or making a lake. Taxes and increased water bills usually pay for construction of public water supplies. By conserving water use, existing water supplies can be used longer, allowing towns, cities, and industries to grow without the need to find additional sources of water.

What are some ways individuals can conserve water?

The chart shows that clothes washing, showers/baths, and flushing toilets make up 80 percent of a households water usage. Using low flow devices on showerheads, toilets, and faucets will make a big difference in the amount of water a household uses.
For example, an older toilet uses 5 to 7 gallons per flush. New low flow toilets only use 1.6 gallons per flush. Standard showerheads use 5 gallons per minute, while low flow showerheads use 2.5 gallons per minute. Frontloading washing machines will use only 40 percent of the water a top loading washer will use. Water savings can add up quickly.
Repairing leaky faucets and toilets will also conserve water. Even a small drip will waste many gallons of water in a day.


Insights:
In our world today, all living creatures needs water in order to continue living. water is essential to all known forms of life on Earth. There is so much uses for the water. We can't tell that the supply of water in a certain place will last forever or will not be affected by the changes that might happen in a span of time. As people, we use water as our main solvent and it is considered as one of our main need. People uses water for drinking, for food preparations, solvent, as a thermal transfer agent and for recreational purposes such as exciting sports and exercise. As we can see, the demand for water is very high and as people or the population is growing the demand for it increases. But the question is, Is the supply of water enough for the growing population and will be enough for the future? We can hardly tell the answer to this question. But as we observe to our surroundings our precious water is getting extinct and more polluted these days.. As an act for this pollution phenomena on water, people must act and think of what are they doing and they must know the causes of the activities they perform. We must conserve water and we must use it wisely. We, people is the one responsible for the changes in water and for it becoming polluted, so we must act about it. We should not be abusive in enjoying the natural resources, the water.

Reference:
Water Rich Water Poor
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/world/water.html